Nonetheless, the unity of steppe history is difficult to grasp; steppe peoples left very little writing for historians to use, and Chinese, Middle Eastern, and European records tell only what happened within a restricted range across their respective steppe frontiers.
Merleau-Ponty, for his part, insists on the underlying unity of the history of painting, which allows us to find traces and echoes of past painters in modern ones.
To exist "between birth and death," then, is not merely to be present in each of a discrete series of temporal instants but to consitute oneself in the unity of a history, and authentic existence is thus one in which the projects that give shape to existence are ones to which I commit myself in light of this history.
A — They have destroyed, ignored, and sowed — in the order named — our national unity, the lessons of history, and the seeds of suspicion, distrust, and hatred.
The problem is that it is hard for Israel's Arab population to act with any kind of unity of purpose because history has robbed them of a coherent identity.
A collection of articles, De Groot-Nederlandsche gedachte, appeared in 1925 (a second volume was added in 1930), dealing with the concept of unity in the history of Holland and Flanders and generally sympathetic to the development of the nation-state.
Although there were extreme political differences for each minority and religion, they were still legitimate members of political communities and there has been a significant amount of unity throughout history.
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, signaling new global unity and perhaps the "end of history".
NANTUCKET: ROCK OF CHANGES PBS, tonight (Channel 13, New York, at 10 30) The public television black heritage celebration, being broadcast under the banner of "Umoja," a Swahili word for unity, presents an alternative vision of history, whose landmarks, verities and personalities barely appear in mainstream recollections.
Thirteen writings are listed which deal with the Arabic language, lexicography, and grammar, two with fiqh, nine with literary criticism, fifty-three with medicine, ten with zoology, three on the science of tawhid (unity of God), three on history, three on mathematics and related disciplines, two on magic and mineralogy, and twenty-seven otherher themes.
