historical specificity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandspecificity
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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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specificity
noun[U]
uk/ˌspes.ɪˈfɪs.ə.ti/us/ˌspes.əˈfɪs.ə.t̬i/
the quality of being specific (= clear ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandspecificityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thehistoricalspecificityof nationalism has important consequences for the explanation of national styles.
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Although one may be tempted to follow the colonial accounts and see these as generalized, unvaried forms of action, morehistoricalspecificitymay be hypothesized.
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In attempting this, the roles ofhistoricalspecificityand the ever-changing nature of framing political opportunity are not ignored.
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This approach frees him to consider the myriad resources, intellectual influences, economic structures, and sociopolitical encounters that provide each of his episodes withhistoricalspecificity.
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First, the center - periphery perspective ignores thehistoricalspecificityof the cur rent conjuncture.
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Historicalspecificityis therefore needed to define modernity and tradition in particular moments and encounters.
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Above all, perhaps, they demonstrate thehistoricalspecificityof welfare structures which have directly responded to labour market conditions, demographic circumstances and ideological and cultural enthusiasms.
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It does so, first, by its insistence onhistoricalspecificityas well as on placing the everyday lives of women and gender formation at the center of historical inquiry.
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Sombart insisted on thehistoricalspecificityof different economic institutions, each affecting the forms and mechanisms of exchange, prices, and markets.
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It was a movement away from structuralist and timeless accounts towardshistoricalspecificityas contested process and lived praxis.
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