historical imagination
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandimagination
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historical
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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imagination
noun
uk/ɪˌmædʒ.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ɪˌmædʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
the ability to form pictures in ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandimaginationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhistorical imagination
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This was not simply a failure ofhistoricalimagination, nor was it a product of intellectual carelessness or political myopia.
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Many of the individual chapters are excellent, combining scholarship and informedhistoricalimaginationin a most attractive manner.
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Taken together, these works vividly illustrate both the value and the challenges of scholarship on the modernhistoricalimagination.
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He expresses ambivalence about the impact of this newhistoricalimaginationon culture and politics in the modern world.
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Furthermore, they both subscribed to the "decline," paradigm which limitedhistoricalimagination, a step that should have led to conformity.
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One can speak here of a newhistoricalimaginationtaking shape, bearing on the past as well as the future.
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Once imprinted on thehistoricalimagination, the contemporary war's binary oppositions readily found expression in analogies and comparisons with earlier conflicts.
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To the contrary, the goldrushes have had such an impact upon the popularhistoricalimaginationthat there are probably not that many more to be found.
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It requires an act ofhistoricalimaginationto access the place, stripping away the overlays to view its hidden physical forms and construe its vanished cultural milieu.
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He has been cried up, and cried down, with an equal lack ofhistoricalimagination.
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