What is "amalgamations"

Usage examples of "amalgamations".

Obviously, that is no more than an average long-term trend, with innumerable shifts in either direction: 1,000 amalgamations for 999 reversals.

Contrary to Rousseau, such amalgamations never occur by a process of unthreatened little societies freely deciding to merge, in order to promote the happiness of their citizens.

All these examples illustrate that wars, or threats of war, have played a key role in most, if not all, amalgamations of societies.

Why is it, then, that they evidently began causing amalgamations of societies only within the past 13,000 years?

Why should wars tend to cause amalgamations of societies when populations are dense but not when they are sparse?

Among these, the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Chinese states, the Mogul state of India, and the Mongol state at its peak in the 13th century started out as large polyglot amalgamations formed by the conquest of other states.

But I suppose the one certain result of it all is a further growth in the great standardised amalgamations with their mass-produced notions and emotions.

Did other amalgamations produce different results, or were stones useful only for stimulating new crops?

Figures with more eyes than legs, more tails than teeth, monstrous amalgamations of fish and squid and tiger and parsnip, things put together as if the creator of the universe had tipped out his box of spare parts and stuck them together, things painted pink and orange and purple and gold, looked down over the valley.