US commemorates Spanish-American War relatively heavily but nobody remembers war so memorials have little meaning
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Darwinian theory broke the romantic ideal of consonance between the human and the natural
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‘The dialogue of place and displacement as a feature of Romantic period writing is often regarded as a response to the great historical movements of urbanization and industrialization that marked late 18th- and 19th-century British life.’
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without an economic and scientific basis, modern environmentalism cannot rationally claim that its proposed climate policies would make the world better off.
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postmodern perceptions towards science as almost embarrassing, although he does concede that everything we do is due to social constructs
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condition of post-modernity is the escape from ‘Fordism’ (manufacturing system designed to spew out standardized, low-cost goods and afford its workers decent enough wages to buy them)
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"reader" who, now freed from the ostensibly unnecessary restrictions of print media - including the dreaded "linearity" of print - can manoeuvre through hypertexts in whatever sequence and fashion he or she chooses.
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history is a study of change over time - brought into question, throwing the profession into a crisis of self-confidence about what it is doing and how
