Some scholars object that these kind of demands lack historical perspective.
Similarly, the idea that new communications technologies provide authoritarian regimes with unprecedented control over their own societies lacks historical perspective: Does Xi Jinping's manipulation of Internet access give him more control over China than Mao was able to achieve with the Red Guards?
Some defenders of the Bible say that current criticism of its violence lacks historical perspective because it makes no allowance for the fact that in our world many people who write about the Bible have become extremely sensitive to violence, much more sensitive than at any time in the past.
That's a way of thinking that lacks historical perspective.
The ruin was named Hiroshima Peace Memorial and was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 over the objections of the United States and China, which expressed reservations on the grounds that other Asian nations were the ones who suffered the greatest loss of life and property, and a focus on Japan lacked historical perspective.
Well, Dr. Insel's call for understanding the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders is laudable but curiously lacking in historical perspective.
Meanwhile, the newest Smithsonian museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, has been criticized as being overly reverential and lacking in historical perspective, because it presents its story primarily from an American Indian point of view.
Studies of the effects of modern agriculture on biodiversity have generally lacked a historical perspective.
Ironically, the older you get, the more you get "discovered" by those who make up in enthusiasm what they lack in historical perspective.
The poem contains very few Arabic words and is often considered the masterpiece of Persian national literature, although it lacks proper historical perspective.
Unfortunately, its successor is muddled, because it lacks any historical perspective, an absence that one of the curators, Guy Cogeval, defends as an asset, whereas it is merely a case of mistaken method.
