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- Detailed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political orientation is unimportant in populism because it does not deal in evidence or detailed proposals for change but in the manipulation of feelings by charismatic leaders.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, is a true populist; Senator Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate who campaigned for Hillary Clinton after losing his battle for the Democratic Party's nomination, is not.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nominally left- and right-wing populists differ primarily in their choice of which 'others' to exclude and attack, with the former singling out big corporations and oligarchs, and the latter targeting ethnic or religious minorities.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and that Lloyd George had capitulated to the vengeful French.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?
- Greater Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
The passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs, from greater understanding of ourselves and our world to answers about what to do.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans have a beginning and an ending, and in between lies their story.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our interest in history always reflects our own times.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 19th century, we didn't much like the loud annexationist voices south of the border or American support for Sinn Fein adventurers who thought, by seizing the Canadian colonies, they could force Britain out of Ireland.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Managing the relationship with a giant neighbour has been central to our foreign policy for more than a century. Trade and investment, as well as people, have flowed back and forth across the border, and the U.S. is, by far, our biggest trading partner.
- Canada
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- Nov 07, 2020
A large part of Canada heads for Florida, California, and Hawaii in the winter to get away from the snow.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canadians see the Americans as cousins. We love the same sports: Canadians are crazy about baseball and basketball, and our beloved game of hockey is played all over the U.S.
- Definitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great War was nobody's fault - or everybody's.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.
- Diplomats
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- Nov 07, 2020
American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding issues left over from World War I, and Washington took the lead in negotiating naval limitations in the Pacific.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The range of weapons at the disposal of military powers is terrifying in its capacity to damage the world and its inhabitants, perhaps even to bring humanity's long story to its end.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nuclear proliferation has never entirely been brought under control, and the arsenals of nuclear powers contain bombs far more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still remember with gratitude a series for children on everyday life where we learned about the games children in other times had played and the food they ate.
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch's 'Knight Crusader.'
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Are artists the canaries in the mine, warning of the coming explosion before anyone else? It's hard to look at the world before 1914 and not wonder if they somehow felt a catastrophe was bearing down on them and their societies.
- Cubism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cubism of Braque or Picasso, the dissonant compositions of Schoenberg or Stravinsky, the free-flowing and often erotic choreography of Isadora Duncan and Nijinsky - these were acts of rebellion against the certainties and traditions of the old world.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.
- Expression
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Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything that had gone before.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020