But, on the whole, regardless of technological developments, he concludes, "History develops, art stands still".
Such a hard-nosed approach to foreigners, regional experts say, reflects Iraq's difficult history developing its oil industry.
As interest in black history developed in the 1980s, Woods provided invaluable information about pre-Windrush black settlement in Britain.
He developed a philosophy of history according to which history develops in three ages of increasing spirituality: the ages of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Traditional seeds are the kind farmers have planted throughout history, developed by crossing parents with desirable traits to get a superior variety.
Maradona is a man who, under the pressures of withdrawal from his own peak as one of the finest players in history, developed a chronic drug addiction.
It's one of history's nicer ironies that radical post-colonial thinkers happily inherited the "maritime" perspective on British history developed by their gung-ho imperialist forebears.
All of East Turkistan was annexed by the Ch'ing (Manchu) dynasty of China in 1762, and thereafter its history developed independently from that of West Turkistan.
The South Street Seaport played a significant role in the city's early history, developing from a small cluster of wharves into part of the nation's leading port and making New York an international center of commerce.
