historical perspective

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoricalandperspective

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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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perspective
noun
uk
/pəˈspek.tɪv/
us
/pɚˈspek.tɪv/
a particular way of ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandperspectivefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The first is thehistoricalperspectiveof hot springs and their communities as provided through the fossil record.
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And in his effort to trace this in the particular setting that he has selected, we almost entirely losehistoricalperspective, most of the time.
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However, even thishistoricalperspectivewould misrepresent psychologists' interest in the self, for it recognizes only studies that explicitly examine individual identity and coherence.
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What, anyway, is the role of thehistoricalperspectivein the behaviorist approach to understanding behavior-environment interactions?
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As a result, our ability to make sense of women's lives and experiences in the late 20th century suffered from a lack ofhistoricalperspective.
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In particular, it is wedded to anhistoricalperspective, in which attention is paid to specific sequences and contexts.
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Diagnostic approaches to schizotypal personality disorder : ahistoricalperspective.
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Considering technological adoption in ahistoricalperspective, there are several examples of innovations favoring successively specialization and multitasking during the 20th century.
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In thishistoricalperspective, available evidence shows that the turning point came in the early 1950s.
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Inhistoricalperspective, the reasons for this state of affairs are well understood.
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A longerhistoricalperspectivewould also have been interesting, as would a reference to gerontological role theory and modernization theory.
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Other typological inconsistencies are discussed and explained from ahistoricalperspective.
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We provide anhistoricalperspective, selectively examine the current state of knowledge, consider advances and gaps in what is known, and identify new research directions.
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The fourth part analyses the social agenda and agriculture interventions from ahistoricalperspectiveand the present day views of the impact of globalization.
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Thehistoricalperspectiveand the comprehensive reference list are invaluable to researchers, as is the index.
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Thehistoricalperspectiveenables both important continuities and breaks to be analysed.
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Previously it had been customary to write monographs restricted to a single analytical, philological orhistoricalperspective.
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Today,historicalperspectiveallows a maturation of electroacoustic musicology.
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