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The earliest known use of the adjective obtrusive is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for obtrusive is from 1652, in the writing of Thomas Urquhart, author and translator.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James W. Loewen that critically examines twelve popular American high school history textbooks. [1] In the book, Loewen concludes that the textbook authors propagate false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of American history.
- Jack Russell Weinstein, James W Loewen
- 1995
Key Takeaways. Unobtrusive methods allow researchers to collect data without interfering with the subjects under study. Historical comparative methods, which are unobtrusive, focus on changes in multiple cases over time or on more than one nation or society at a single point in time.
- Matthew DeCarlo
- 2018
Herodotus begins his narrative with Croesus (reigned 560–46 BCE), rather than the Persian king Cyrus (c. 590–29 BCE) or the Greeks, because it is Croesus who first made the Ionian Greeks his subjects. Ionia is the region on the west coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey).
The earliest known use of the noun obtrusiveness is in the 1810s. OED's earliest evidence for obtrusiveness is from 1814, in the writing of Jane Austen, novelist.
The earliest known use of the adverb obtrusively is in the late 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for obtrusively is from 1796, in the writing of Fanny Burney, writer.
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1 How Important are Dates? There was a time when historians were fascinated with dates. There were heated debates about the dates on which rulers were crowned or battles were fought. In the common-sense notion, history was synonymous with dates. You may have heard people say, “I find history boring because it is all about memorising dates.”
