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Frank McDonough looks at the old question of whether history is made by great individuals or impersonal forces. There is a common assumption that great individuals are the dominant influence on historical change. Most people believe history without Joan of Arc, Henry VIII, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, Kennedy, Gorbachov and
Jun 8, 2024 · "unflinching" published on by Oxford University Press. adjective not showing fear or hesitation in the face of danger or difficulty: he has shown unflinching determination throughout the campaign.not showing fear or hesitation in face of danger or difficultyunflinching
statesmen, legislators, or military leaders, to, and exhausted in, the historical domain, those great or creative men whose work. men of letters, while neither oriented to, nor exhausted in, the. historical domain, nevertheless left an ineffaceable trace upon the historical process.
In 2012, the Bureau of Military History archive collection with over 1,700 contributions was put online. This article examines their content with a view to shedding new light on the politics and activity of James Connolly, one of the main organisers of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.
Mar 28, 2008 · Historians have traditionally dealt with the narrative of events, especially political events; Thucydides, Tacitus, Guicciardini, Clarendon and Ranke are among the great masters of this genre in the West. This style of history involves a close study of changes over the short-term.
- Peter Burke
- 1979
The earliest known use of the adjective unflinching is in the early 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for unflinching is from 1728, in the writing of Joseph Morgan, historian. unflinching is formed within English, by derivation.
Adjective. unflinching ( not comparable) without flinching; staying committed despite any difficulty; steadfast. 1837, Catharine E. Beecher, An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, page 126.
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