Who decides what to reconstruct, where, when and in what order?
"Clearly the war and the fact Germany had to reconstruct itself spiritually as well as physically means it is a much more reflective society than ours.
"We translate lines into Old Norse and Old English, use pre-Conquest missals for religious scenes and reconstruct locations and events from contemporary chronicles – inasmuch as that's possible in the nineth century," he says.
It is often the next generation who really try to reconstruct what happened," Dugot told the Observer.
He cites ancient China's premier historian, Sima Qian, who recorded a remarkable building programme pursued by China's first ruling dynasty, the Qin: "Whenever Qin conquered one of its rivals, it would commission replicas of its palaces and halls and reconstruct them on the slope north of the capital.
"My story is of the resurgence of Kalinga nationalism under one dynasty: not only did it reconstruct Kalinga as a vibrant nation, it also went on to capture Magadh, the seat of Ashoka, 100 years after his demise.
"Our brains reconstruct the past based on our present values.
"But digital memories will only remind us of the failures of our past, so that we have no ability to forget or reconstruct our past.
The committee asked DfID to set up a global conference in 2015 to agree a common plan to reconstruct health systems in the region, which it said were already fragile before the outbreak.
He has found that, though they are similar, they are different enough to confirm that modern people probably do not have any Neanderthal ancestors.Despite the fantasies of "Jurassic Park", it will never be possible to reconstruct creatures that are millions of years old by reassembling their DNA into working genes; DNA molecules simply do not last that long.
Adam Zamoyski, whose previous book, "1812", told the tale of the French emperor's disastrous Russian campaign, now turns his attention to the victors' efforts to reconstruct Europe after his defeat.His book is old-fashioned, impressively detailed diplomatic history; it deals with the fate of nations and dynasties and the doings of emperors, kings and princes.
