historical reconstruction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandreconstruction
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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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reconstruction
noun
uk/ˌriː.kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/us/ˌriː.kənˈstrʌk.ʃən/
the process of building or creating something again that has been damaged ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandreconstructionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhistorical reconstruction
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Bowing to tradition and engaging in 'historicalreconstruction' creates nothing but deadly theatre.
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It is indeed a product ofhistoricalreconstructionmade through contested negotiations by the local people.
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Each makes decisions about methods ofhistoricalreconstructionwhich are instructive for intellectual historians more generally.
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Although it was restrained, the event demonstrated the persisting tension between individual memory,historicalreconstruction, and political perspectives.
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It is natural that texts preoccupied withhistoricalreconstructionencourage students to identify the study of language through time with what is reconstructively relevant.
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She cautions thathistoricalreconstructionhas its boundaries.
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The first part of the book is anhistoricalreconstructionbased on considerable archaeological work done along the coast over the past couple of decades.
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One of the strengths of this book is the detailedhistoricalreconstructionof the developments leading to the outbreak of the war.
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This is by no means an exercise inhistoricalreconstruction.
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One can appreciate the attempt to render the place of intuition inhistoricalreconstructionmore transparent and the pedagogical advantages of fiction.
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There would appear to be no intervening variables worthy ofhistoricalreconstructionuntil after this philosophical exegesis is concluded.
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Our access to it is, therefore, necessarily mediated through a partialhistoricalreconstructionof these circumstances.
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To argue from the point of view ofhistoricalreconstruction, only a small portion of operative procedures can be accounted for through direct and straightforward descent or ' 'inheritance' '.
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Counting and calculating forhistoricalreconstruction.
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This is all admirablehistoricalreconstruction.
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He does not provide the reader with enough information about where the texts come form : his task is one ofhistoricalreconstructionand his voice is largely authoritative.
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The high level of editorial standards common to all these productions was, furthermore, the sign of a shared awareness of the importance of the sources for theirhistoricalreconstruction.
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Thus, rather than looking upon historical work as somehow exempt from methodology, my perspective is that methodological self-consciousness is essential to the task ofhistoricalreconstruction.
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Such developments have also been posited inhistoricalreconstruction.
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Audiences are interested in seeinghistoricalreconstruction, and this movie is no exception.
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