Since the 1980s historians more often stress the limitations of the occupation's reforms and argue that they partly reflected prewar and wartime Japanese innovations.

One diplomatic historian stressed the enormous cultural barriers to changing Afghan civil society through direct American action.

In general, Whig historians stress the rise of constitutional government, personal freedoms and scientific progress.

Other historians also stress the Crusade's anti-Nazism.

Many Muslim and academic historians stress the power and importance of the pre-Islamic Mecca.

As a result these historians have stressed the ways in which empire building shaped the cultures of both colonized peoples and Britons themselves.

Instead of the slave empire, these historians stressed the country's rapid economic development and urbanization under Stalin, which supposedly fostered widespread support for the regime.

Sikh historians have stressed that both these men were prominent in the Dogra faction.

Yet, as the historians of "proto-industrialisation" have stressed, it is the family production unit which is the key to understanding the economics of rural manufacturing.

However, these historians also stress that the Department worked closely with British diplomats.