Sentence examples for total histories from inspiring English sources

In this respect Voltaire is the father of the "total histories" and the "histories of everyday life" that blossomed in the second half of the 20th century.

The concept of "total history" has long been debated by academics.

While aiming at a "total history," it also yielded dazzling microstudies of villages and regions.

By Anthony Grafton Some envision a universal archive — the basis for a total history of the human race.

It aimed at a "total history" that relied heavily on quantification and also yielded dazzling microstudies of villages and regions.

"He may have gone too far in provoking people with his thesis, but he's written an essay -- it's not meant to be a total history -- and is clearly trying to direct discussion".

Others have evoked even more utopian prospects, such as a universal archive that will contain not only all books and articles but all documents anywhere — the basis for a total history of the human race.

A highlight of my time at Duke was getting to know the great John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor of History and the leading scholar of the last century on the total history of African-Americans in this country.

Struggle For Survival (1989), Parker's book on the second world war, is often reprinted, and is a tour de force of total history, in which he covered effortlessly such disparate themes as the British war economy, the impact - and folly - of the strategic bombing of Germany, and Anglo-American discord in 1945.

In order to determine the total history of basin burial, we executed one-dimensional modeling of maturation levels of organic matter contained in the Cretaceous Yezo Group.

According to reductionist theories of chance, discussed further below (§3), the values of the chances are fixed by the total history of occurring events.