Sentence examples for specific histories from inspiring English sources

But to it Cole added new things, specific histories.

Williams is equally convinced that "the specific histories of country and city, and of their immediate interrelations, have been determined, in Britain, by capitalism".

Smartly installed, the show avoids ethnic essentialism; it has an international feel, but still keeps the trace of specific histories afloat.

One of the things I've been working on is trying to split colonial Africa into constituent parts, which helps to restore specific histories.

Nearly all the work of the roughly two dozen artists refers in partisan, political and personal ways to specific histories.

His deliberate lack of commitment to a single stylistic direction has often been read as an attack on the implicit ideologies embedded in the specific histories of painting.

HOW 'TYNE BRIDGE' CAME ABOUT -- There's a specific history to "Tyne Bridge".

But British values grow, in part, out of a specific history and even geography.

In this imaginary landscape, the midwest is only invoked as a nostalgic fantasy erasing its specific history and character, an absent centre marginalised, dismissed as "flyover country".

Racism, the argument goes, should not be thought of as a personal failing; it's a social system, with a specific history.

Both peoples must be understood through their specific history and accept the fact that their destinies are inextricably linked.