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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Elizabeth Janeway

Meaning of "shadow history" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHADOW HISTORY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHADOW HISTORY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shadow history is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHADOW HISTORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Secret history

A secret history is a revisionist interpretation of either fictional or real history which is claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars. Secret history is also used to describe a type or genre of fiction which portrays a substantially different motivation or backstory from established historical events.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHADOW HISTORY

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shadow bands
shadow cabinet
shadow Foreign Secretary
shadow mask
shadow minister
shadow play
shadow price
shadow test
shadow-box
shadow-boxing
shadowcast
shadower
shadowgraph
shadowgraphy
shadowily
shadowiness
shadowless
shadowlike
shadowy

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHADOW HISTORY

alternative history
ancient history
cover story
credit history
directory
ghost story
history
horror story
life story
love story
medical history
natural history
oral history
prehistory
service history
short story
sob story
social history
story
success story
the same old story

Synonyms and antonyms of shadow history in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «shadow history» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHADOW HISTORY

Find out the translation of shadow history to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shadow history from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shadow history» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

历史阴影
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

historia sombra
570 millions of speakers

English

shadow history
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छाया इतिहास
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

التاريخ الظل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

история тень
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

história sombra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছায়া ইতিহাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´histoire de l´ ombre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sejarah bayang-bayang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schatten der Geschichte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

影の歴史
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

그림자 의 역사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shadow history
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bóng lịch sử
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிழல் வரலாறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

छाया इतिहास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Gölge tarihi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

storia ombra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Historia cień
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Історія тінь
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

istorie umbră
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιστορία σκιά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skaduwee geskiedenis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skugga historia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shadow historie
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shadow history

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHADOW HISTORY»

The term «shadow history» is used very little and occupies the 181.365 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHADOW HISTORY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shadow history

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QUOTES WITH «SHADOW HISTORY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shadow history.
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Elizabeth Janeway
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHADOW HISTORY»

Discover the use of shadow history in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shadow history and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
Every time we go online, we participate in the system of spam, with choices, refusals, and purchases the consequences of which we may not understand. This is a book about what spam is, how it works, and what it means.
Finn Brunton, 2013
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Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in ...
Today, Snoop Dogg shills for Chrysler and white kids wear Fubu, the black-owned label whose name stands for "For Us, By Us." This is not the first time that black music has been appreciated, adopted, and adapted by white audiences-think ...
Jason Tanz, 2011
3
Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock & Roll
This book is a mix of the best of Mikal Gilmore’s writing and new and re-fashioned pieces which together tell the story of the people who made rock music, and who will carry rock & roll into the twenty-first century.
Mikal Gilmore, 2012
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Short History of the Shadow
Victor I. Stoichita. Though not explicitly stated, the quotation would seem to be a direct reference to it. At the beginning of his treatise Sandrart dwells on the classical myth of the origin of painting. To illustrate it he even used an engraving  ...
Victor I. Stoichita, 1997
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"Is Not the Past All Shadow?": History and Vision in Byron, ...
Throughout the British Romantic period, poets and prose writers shared a keen interest in the imaginative possibilities conferred by the national legacy of literary prophecy.
Timothy Ruppert, 2008
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In the Shadow of History: Jews and Conversos at the Dawn of ...
Jews and Conversos at the Dawn of Modernity José Faur. THE SHADOW HISTORY Jews and Converses at the Dawn of Modernity Jose Fa IN THE SHADOW OF HISTORY Jews and Conversos at the. Front Cover.
José Faur, 1992
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The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy
97, 107—108, 109) The received view of logical behaviourism just outlined is a shadow position and the story of its overthrow by its successor, the mind—brain identity theory, is shadow history in Watson's sense—at least so I shall argue.
Michael Beaney, 2013
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Bringing Light to Shadow: A Dog Trainer's Diary
Finally, given Shadow's history, I expect a little regression. Frankly, you've done a remarkable job with him. . .no B.S.! Start weaning him away from frequent food reinforcers and watch his hunger level. He should be interested in a snack, but ...
Pamela Dennison, 2004
9
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city’s current status.
Mike Davis, 2006
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Technology as Symptom and Dream
E The hysterical body In an earlier section of our shadow history of the abandoned body, we indicated how the reflex displaces action from the world into the body. The reflex body is a body which has lost its place within the world. As such ...
Robert Romanyshyn, 2003

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« EDUCALINGO. Shadow history [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/shadow-history>. Apr 2024 ».
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