In the prewar period these ideas had not been realized in any form whatsoever.
His prewar essays exemplify the widespread sense of cultural pessimism of those years.
In absolute terms the ie gradually lost independence, and it was on this basis that the early-modern ie and the prewar family system existed.
This does seem to have been one of the decisive factors in prewar politics.
His own prewar novels had been constructed around the very dualism the treatise condemns.
One way or another, the attempt to reconcile opposites under the banner of form, rational or aesthetic, was the prewar identity order of the day.
Officials applied heavily the ' martial race ' doctrine to prewar recruitment, and accorded ' martial ' tribes respect beyond that extended to non-martial peoples.
Despite these failures, he insists, the course that the powers followed marked an irreversible change from the prewar diplomacy of imperialism.
