 Indeed, Braudel distinguished various time scales, one accorded to the life of an individual, another accorded to the life of a few human generations, and the last one to civilizations, in which geography, economics, and demography play a role considerably more decisive than that of individual subjects.Among noticeable events in the studies of the role of the hero and great man in history one should mention Sidney Hook's book (1943) "The Hero in History".In the second half of the twentieth century such male-focused theory has been contested, among others by feminists writers such as Judith Fetterley in "The Resisting Reader" (1977) and literary theorist Nancy K. Miller, "The Heroine's Text