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Climate change can also be used more broadly to include changes to the climate that have happened throughout Earth's history. [32] Global warming—used as early as 1975 [33] —became the more popular term after NASA climate scientist James Hansen used it in his 1988 testimony in the U.S. Senate. [34] Since the 2000s, climate change has ...
The House Tax Hartal was an occasion of nonviolent resistance to protest a tax in parts of British India, with a particularly noteworthy example of hartal (a form of general strike) in the vicinity of Varanasi: British India: Demonstrators 1810 The West Florida rebellion against Spain, eventually becomes a short-lived republic. Spain: Rebels ...
In the 1960s, some critics argued that the link between modernization and democracy was based too much on the example of European history and neglected the Third World. [ 25 ] One historical problem with that argument has always been Germany whose economic modernization in the 19th century came long before the democratization after 1918 .
1009 – 1 August: Vikings burn Oxford. [8] 1015 – Early: Sigeferth and Morcar, chief thegns of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, come to an assembly in Oxford where they are murdered by Eadric Streona. 1018 – Cnut the Great attends a Witenagemot at Oxford at which he is recognised as king of England. [9]
Won 1974 Wolfson History Prize Theodore Zeldin: France, 1848–1945, Vol 2: Intellect, Taste and Anxiety: 1977 1202 978-0198221258: E.H. Kossmann: The Low Countries, 1780–1940: 1978 793 978-0198221081: Gordon A. Craig: Germany, 1866–1945: 1978 840 978-0198221135: James J. Sheehan: German History, 1770–1866: 1989 986 978-0198221203: Paul W ...
Aerial view of Oxford city centre. The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the Saxon period. Originally of strategic significance due to its controlling location on the upper reaches of the River Thames at its junction with the River Cherwell. The town grew in national importance during the Norman period.
Climate change mitigation policies can have a large and complex impact on the socio-economic status of individuals and countries This can be both positive and negative. [299] It is important to design policies well and make them inclusive. Otherwise climate change mitigation measures can impose higher financial costs on poor households. [300]
The language of history and the history of language: an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 11 May 1998 (Oxford, 1998) 34pp. 'Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Coming of the Revolution', and '1848 in the Habsburg Monarchy', in The Revolutions in Europe, 1848-9: From Reform to Reaction , ed. Robert Evans and Hartmut ...