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The Historical Specificity of the Peace Process

2003
When trying to understand the peace process in Northern Ireland and South Africa it is tempting to emphasise exclusively the role of key people, as if they were special charismatic men and women without whom history would not exist. The peace process would thus become reduced to the effects of the biographical experiences and strategies of people like ...
J. Brewer
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Let's do it Frank's way: general principles and historical specificity in the study of entrepreneurship

Journal of Institutional Economics, 2021
Formal economic models of entrepreneurship have two characteristics: they model entrepreneurship as an allocation of resources, and they identify common factors affecting this allocation. These common factors are represented as parameters of optimization
Marek Hudík, Per L. Bylund
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General theorising and historical specificity: Hodgson on Keynes

Journal of Institutional Economics, 2019
In relation to Keynes's thought on general theorising, consumption theory and institutions, this paper closely examines Geoff Hodgson's views as set out in his magisterial work, How Economics Forgot History.
R. O'Donnell
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Being Specific about Historical Change

Journal of English Linguistics, 2013
This article argues that historical linguistic change is mediated by register differences at a highly specific level. As a result, seemingly minor differences in register can correspond to meaningful and systematic differences in the patterns of linguistic change. Two specific case studies of twentieth-century historical change are presented.
Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray
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Specific Reading Disability in Historically Famous Persons

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
Apres avoir rappele les principaux aspects cognitifs, biologiques et neuro-psychologiques de la dyslexie, les auteurs examinent leur presence chez quatre personnages celebres qu'on a decrits comme dyslexiques: Thomas Alva Edison, Woodrow Wilson, Hano Christian Andersen et Leonard de ...
P G, Aaron, S, Phillips, S, Larsen
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Green Political Thought

The Politics of the Environment, 2018
Acknowledgements Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction Part 1: Thinking About Ecologism: sustainable societies reasons to care for the environment crisis and its political-strategic consequences universality and social ...
A. Dobson
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Historical Perspectives of Atrial Specific Granules

1987
the dual contractile-secretory functiion of muscle cells (cardiocytes) of the mammalian heart atria became apparent after electron-microscopic studies (1, 2, 14) that demonstrated that the bulk of these cells, unlike their ventricular counterparts, display a prominent Golgi complex, a large content of rough endoplasmic reticulum, and storage granules ...
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Lacking Historical Specificity and Prone to Clichés

TOPIA, 2010
I don’t pretend to know the University of Regina student movement intimately after I left in 1966. During the tumultuous late sixties, I was at Simon Fraser University where I helped form the Students for a Democratic University. But I participated in the emerging student movement at Regina in various capacities in the early 1960s, including as student
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SPECIFIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH HISTORICAL WORKS

UzMU xabarlari
This article discusses the specific features of English historical works and novels. Historical fiction refers to those narratives that are fictional but set in a historical backdrop. Real-life historical events typically have a significant impact on the storyline. The main elements of a historical fiction story are time period significance, historical
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Being Specific about Historical Change *

2021
Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray
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