periodizing

Ironically, such a deft sidestepping of contentious human issues only emphasizes the problematic nature of periodizing colonial history.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

I thus challenge the long-dominant mode of periodizing the history of American legal thought.

Archive 2008-05-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

When they approach lyric poetry, students don't have the same base to start from, and so they're inclined to jump directly to the level of meaning, and beyond that, to the periodizing generalities they believe constitute "knowledge of literary history."

How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds) 2002

This periodizing of Christian history from the Bible formed the basis of the world histories of the twelfth century.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GORDON LEFF 1968

In the light of the new knowl - edge this old geographical and political scheme of periodizing gave way completely, and was supplanted by periods based entirely on chronology, i.e., ancient, medieval, and modern.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas DONALD F. LACH 1968

Monarchies or World Empires; and this, as formulated in the book of Daniel, governed the periodizing of universal history until the seventeenth and even the eighteenth century.

HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

On the other hand the way that 3/11 becomes a kind of periodizing disaster in Spain, dividing historical time into a pre- and a post-, and the particular Spanish political response to the events, heightens his sense of foreignness.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Teddy Wayne 2011

Jameson, as it happens, dates postmodernism to around 1973 in his essay, though working at the crossroads of culture and political economy - his periodizing facts are different.

jane dark's sugarhigh! 2009

Jameson, as it happens, dates postmodernism to around 1973 in his essay, though working at the crossroads of culture and political economy - his periodizing facts are different.

jane dark's sugarhigh! 2009

After Karl Popper and Jean-François Lyotard's condemnation of master narratives, periodizing-or even making broad generalizations about culture-has become deeply suspect for us.

varnelis.net - network culture 2009