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Namierize
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English
Alternative forms
en namierize Namierise namierise
Etymology
Namier en ize, from Lewis Namier (1888–1960), British historian.
Verb
To explain history or political science by means of Namierization.
en 1971 Alter F. Landesman Brownsville: the birth, development, and passing of a Jewish community in New York ix To "Namierize" Brownsville, showing how much each person there contributed to its peculiar American-Jewish civilization, and how it contributed to their culture, and to indicate why one person went one way, and another turned in another direction would require many volumes and be beyond the goal which Dr. Landesman set himself.
en 1974 Walter Laqueur; George Lachmann Mosse Historians in politics 351 For a profession dedicated to examining the changing circumstances and background of historical developments, we have been unusually disinclined to scrutinize ourselves in such a manner; perhaps someone should 'Namierize' the historians, their inclinations and backgrounds, and what they think of their subject ?
en 1979 The Eighteenth Century - Volume 20 106 R. Walcott's attempt to Namierize this period has very properly been discounted by later writers and critics.
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