I don't think lecturers are to blame – they're allowed to have their own historical focuses – but universities don't employ as many world historians as they should.
But as much as this was a new battle for Egypt's future, with an Islamist elected as head of state for the first time in the Arab world, historians said it fit an all-too-familiar pattern.
Banks pushed for the exploration of territories farther afield too, most importantly of Africa and most notably by the young Scotsman Mungo Park, whose accounts of his travels have provided world historians with important sources of information about precolonial Africa.
This kingdom "began as a hostile merger", but led to a "full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world"; historian Simon Schama stated "it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history".
Within the world of historians, however, it has a parallel.
In writing this, I've found that the (predominantly male) second world war historians are happy to welcome me into the field.
Well, those who drank the Kool-Aid in the '70s in the heyday of lesbian separatism — a lot of them have ended up in the academic world as historians or sociologists.
As the Colossus wades through the world, so historians and critics – and everyone else who looks at the painting – have to make a way through its multiple meanings, its endless mutability.
And he is aware of the thousands of vivid, precious links in the Franco-Scottish alliance, the oldest in the world ... ....Some historians trace this amity back to a Scottish king, John Balliol, and France's King Philippe le Bel more than seven centuries ago.
"The field of material culture is breaking out into the world of historians more generally," said Leora Auslander, a professor at the University of Chicago and the author of "Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France" (University of California Press, 1996), a history of French furniture from 1720 to 1920.
Into that soft, family-centric world, the historian Stephen E. Ambrose lobbed a grenade.
