... French Annales school, such as Marc Bloch and Fernand Braudel, who focused primarily on medieval and early modern European history. Another influential group of historians, including Eric Hobsbawm, E. P. Thompson, and Herbert Gutman, who were influenced by Marxist class analysis, wrote histories of working people and the popular classes. Other social historians have explored the history of those who formerly were largely ... the survivors and spread to the entire species over successive generations. This process he called the principle of natural selection (the expression "survival of t...

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... the fundamental idea concluded in his work: I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection. . . . The expression used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. Also contained in Darwin's theories was the notion of the "Struggle for Existence." In this ... from Darwin's theories were decidedly secular, not unlike Darwin's theory itself. One of the most influential social and ethical philosophies associated with Darwin's theory was that of the British ...

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... transport of Franco's troops to Spain on the 30th of July. The fighter aircrafts soon went into action and the Germans suffered their first losses when airmen Helmut Schulze and Herbert Zeck were killed on 15th August. (Spanish). This was only the beginning of foreign interference in Spain's affairs. The German and Italian influence in the Spanish Civil war cannot be ... ...

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