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Why Mental Illness Has Changed American Views On Mental...
Mental illness has continually been part of life in the United States, albeit a part of American life that is not often discussed. Insane asylums for housing
the mentally ill developed later during colonial America. New scientific ideas and the continuing influence of the Enlightenment led to further usage of
insane asylums, where a widely–used architectural style developed. Commonly known as Kirkbride or linear plan asylums, these asylums were
popular in the mid–nineteenth century, and were massive, intimidating structures built to impress visitors while providing care to the mentally ill
housed inside. This actual style was predominant from the 1850s to just after the Civil War and their creation and fall from popularity changed... Show
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This thesis will bridge the gap between these two theories. It will also address the theoretical division in the historiography. The architecture of
Kirkbride asylums suggests that there was a dual purpose in the creation of these massive, imposing buildings; they were created to treat the mentally
ill, but the idealistic writings of superintendents of this period did not reflect the true reality of asylum life, and thus control played a large aspect in
the building and workings of insane asylums in mid–nineteenth century America. There have been scholarly works published about both Kirkbride
asylums and insane asylums in the United States in general. Dr. Henry M. Hurd, a Superintendent at John Hopkins Hospital, wrote a four–volume book
called The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada in 1916, which was one of the first comprehensive scholarly works on
mental hospitals in the United States. His view is important, as he admonished the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for
the Insane (AMSAII), a group of superintendents over insane asylums, to change its name and focus, as it had changed since Kirkbride's time. He gave
histories of these mental hospitals, and his figures are used through the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. Another earlier source on this subject is
Margaret McCulloch's "Founding the North Carolina Asylum for the Insane." Her article focused on North Carolina and
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Jazz historiography
The rapid development of jazz in both the United States and Europe generated a number of diverse musical expressions, including musics that most
listeners today would not recognize as "jazz" music. In order to remedy this situation, jazz musicians and critics after 1930 began to codify what "real"
jazz encompassed, and more importantly, what "real" jazz did not encompass. This construction of authenticity, often demarcated along racial lines,
served to relegate several artists and styles (those outside a "mainstream" to the margins of historiography.
The issue of race is central to all discourses of jazz. Alongside race goes the problem of representation, or, who gets to play what for whom and under
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It creates a false binary in which the only races involved in the creation or playing of jazz are black and white, thus implicitly writing European, Roma,
Latin American, or other ethnic groups out of the narrative, a mistake this thesis will seek to correct by including guitarists from outside the black
/white binary as valid contributors to discourse. Ideas intimately tied to issues of race and social impact is the issue of authenticity.
What constitutes real (authentic) jazz and who are jazz's authentic players? For that matter, what are authentic jazz instruments? Authenticity is usually
defined by race, ethnicity, and/or musical pedigree, though there seems to be a hierarchy at work in those definitions. of authenticity, however, are not
real or absolute; they are imaginary constructs made to suit the ideological needs of fans, writers, musicians, and critics.
Black musicians are usually considered to be more authentic than white musicians; however, white American musicians are more authentic than their
European counterparts.
While jazz might be an African–American music, it is still often viewed as being uniquely
American. Europeans, in turn, are more authentic than other ethnic sub–groups, like
Roma, or other nationalities. These notions of authenticity were some of the most influential factors in the shaping of jazz discourse. Pedigree,
whether real or assumed,
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The Partition onf India
The Partition of India in August, 1947 was a significant event in history that accounted for the separation of one of the world's oldest civilization into
two, independent nations – Pakistan and India. Like many other wars in history, The Partition of India was instigated by religious, political and social
conflict. This resulted in violence, discrimination and the largest human displacement in contemporary history. While the Partition was well–studied,
much of our understanding was focused on the political side of history, not the human side of it. This was why oral history played an important role in
manifesting the complexity of a historical event. Our focus here is Maya Rani's testimony from Butalia's book, The Other Side of Silence: ... Show more
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To Rani, 'people dying here, others dying there' (cited in Butalia, 2000, p.268) was something that happened every day, it was no surprise to her. Thus,
Rani's cynical view about the future of India and Pakistan was conceivably drawn from memories of witnessing horrendous fights and strife throughout
her whole life (cited in Butalia, 2000, p.268).
Official documents have little say about women and children of the Partition as they were viewed as a collective. Earlier reports on the abduction of
women only gave the reader the statistics and brief statements that glorified community nationalism rather than the victims itself. Many failed to dwell
into the individual trauma of this particular group (Menon & Bhasin, 1998, p.11). Rani's testimony was significant in that not only it opened us to
another outlook from a witness point of view; it also revealed that people who were not physically involved were also affected psychologically. This
was also the only part in the testimony where Rani displayed sympathy and grievance. Her sensitivity and deep connection with these victims correlated
with age and gender. Her emphasis on the words 'young' and 'girl' throughout her testimony evoked our sense of disbelief that people would do such
inhumane things to each other (cited in Butalia, 2000, p.271). Her hesitant manner, evident
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Germany 's War And The Holocaust : Disputed Histories
Julia Katzman
December 4, 2014
History of War Professor Nolan
Book Review #2
Evaluating History
Bartov, Omer. Germany 's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. Kindle.
For decades, historians and citizens have struggled to grasp the relationship between the German army and the mass murders committed during the
Holocaust. These questions have persisted since the concentration camps were liberated and the extent of the atrocities committed during World War II
were revealed. Omer Bartov provides a myriad of scholarly interpretations in his fifth book, Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories. In
this work, Bartov provides a historical and scholarly discourse on the German army and its institutionalization of mass murder. Overall, Bartov's book
is well supported through his extensive use of secondary material and his ability to appropriately characterize specific nations' reactions to historical
Holocaust assertions. However, Bartov's lack of primary documents, exaggerated critiques, and organizational flaws detract from his expressed thesis.
These deficiencies cause his work to read more as a disjointed series of book reviews, rather than a single, unified statement. Omer Bartov separates his
analysis into three different sections, each of which comments upon prominent issues in Holocaust scholarship. His first section discusses the nature of
the German army on the Eastern Front during World War II, where
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Historiography Of Hamlet
"When did it all start, you ask, this job of ours, how did it come about, where, when? Well, I'd say it really got started around about a thing called the
Civil War. Even though our rule–book claims it was founded earlier. The fact is we didn't get along well until photography came into its own. Then –
motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass."
Montag sat in bed, not moving.
"And because they had mass, they became simpler," said Beatty. "Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford
to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple population. Films and
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Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog–lovers, the cat–lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons,
Baptists, Unitarians, second–generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The
people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market,
Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil
thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were
dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive.
And the three–dimensional sex–magazines, of course. There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no
declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them,
you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade
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Critical Problem Of Selective Reliance On Secondary...
Part2
The article of Ian Lustick focuses on the critical problem of selective reliance on secondary historiographical sources by historically–minded political
scientists. Lustick observes that political scientists often make mistakes by rooting their research without paying attention to the issue of how to select
historical events and thus comes up with an approach that does not treat historiographies as "History," but as particular interpretations of history that
can be used to multiply the number of observations to outnumber variables to make valid inferences: "if we treat our database as "historiography" or
"histories" and not "History," then the actual number of "cases" expands from the number of episodes to the number of accounts of those
episodes"(Lusktick). The problems with historiographies is that, historians like many political scientists tend to include their own commitments and
political engagement and eventually fall into selection bias when doing their research. This bias can occur when he/she selects historiographical
accounts prioritizing one historical events and human behavior that sync with their own political theories over the others. (pg. 608). Lustick deals with
the issue of how to choose sources of data without selecting specific ones that matches your thesis. By doing so, he criticize Barrington Moore's
seminal 1966 book, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, noting that Moore selectively references historical accounts to support his
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History : A New Form Of History
Doing History Essay:
Up until the early nineteenth–century, history had been written in two dominant traditions, "one predominantly learned and antiquarian, the other
essentially literary". However, a postmodern shift in historiography has led to a new form of history, namely 'disobedient histories'. 'Disobedienthistory'
as a new form of history moves away from Leopold Von Ranke's ideas of history being a rigorous scientific inquiry towards a more diverse and
cultured form. Some of these forms include graphic novels, photo journals, dramatised series of events or blog posts. My output was the latter, my
blog post was designed to analyse literary and artistic form of memory in the Holocaust, and the problems the forms present. By choosing the medium
of a blog post I aimed to challenge traditional academic rules, to use a medium that would serve to democratise history for the modern era, and also to
create conversation with the wider socio cultural scene; with the argument also pertaining to 'disobedient history' as a recognisable form of history
method and writing.
As expected, the blog that has been created is not a traditional academic form of historical writing; however, new works in the field of historical
writing may argue differently. In the traditional orthodox view of history, there has been a refusal to consider historical narratives as a manifestation of
'verbal fictions'. As Hayden White describes "verbal fictions, the contents of which are as much invented as
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Personal Historiography
A long time ago, at my first book keeping job, I was challenged with helping a recently divorced man reorganize and relocate the office portion of
his business. Like most marriages she was the brains of the operation, when it came to the finances. After the split his business took a major hit
due to his lack of knowledge of the office portion of the company. The man was a great deasil mechanic but not so savvy with paperwork and
tracking expenses. The first step we tackled was organizing the new office. I am not sure how the old one was ran, but the man didn't have one
thing carry over to the new office. I remember the first time I walked in, it was just boxes piled high with random paperwork everywhere. It was
not an easy task but we worked several nights a week in order to get it all sorted out. We started from scratch and had to input everything into his new
QuickBooks program and set up folders to organize all of his clientele information. This being my first time booking keeping and running an office, I
had to learn a lot, fast, and mostly on my own. By the time all this... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
It was not as simple as you might think. I set up a box in the cab of his truck and would have folders labeled for each job he was working on, along
with an invoice to fill in as he went. All he had to do was place the receipts and paperwork in the proper folder and write down the billable hours.
Somehow I kept getting back a box of random receipts and folders with blank invoices. So at the end of the job we would have to sit there together
and pick through said box of receipts and decipher what went where, so we could bill the clients. It was never an easy task and he ended up losing
a few jobs due to the office hours he was having to put in. I am happy to say that he did eventually get into a routine with his end of the paperwork
and was able to focus more on his side of the
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Middle English Prehistory Essay
Prehistory refers to a time period in the past before the introduction of writing, or the time before history was written by the people. Another definition
states that prehistory is the time and a series of events before and eventually led to the development of something (e.g. a certain material or philosophy).
Moreover, the University of Leicester define prehistory as a study of the human past from 3.2 million years ago wherein the first stone tools were
made, until the modern era. There is no strict time period of prehistory, and a prehistory of a certain area may end later than that of the other. For
example, Britain ended its prehistory when the Roman army arrived there, while in Australia, hunter–gatherers have been dwelling in that continent at
the instant of the European invasion in the 18th century. Practically, prehistory is more concerned with the lives of the people during those times and
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The Latin also had the term historia, or "a narrative of past events, account, tale, story" and the Greek historia means "knowing by inquiry; an account
of one's inquiries". Furthermore, it is related to the Greek word idein or "to see", and the word eidenai, which means to know. In the 15th century,
Middle English, however, does not differentiate history from the word story, or "a record of past events". History covers several disciplines, primarily
comparative history and historiography. Comparative history is about learning and comparing the features of human experience and the different
periods and societies in the history of mankind, while historiography is based on how historians make history, how sources are used in writing history,
and how history should be studied based on certain
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Interpretive Schools: The Role Of Historiography In History
Historiography in a brief definition is the record of what is known about the past and a number of interpretations through scholarly criticism. It focuses
on historical research as it is constantly changing. Most of the interpretations before the nineteen sixties dealt with politics. It is through socials
movements that scholarly literature began to include social, cultural, racial, gender and countercultural histories. Many people that studied history
interpreted it very differently and out of this interpretive schools occurred. These interpretive schools sparked debates which continues to influence
history today. Thus, the importance ofhistoriography is that it involves many different views, many different ideologies and many different ... Show
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They believed that there were economic advantages to breaking away from Britain. Colonists were competing with the English government in the
economy and the English were taking their money. Great Britain constantly argued with the social classes and argued who should rule America. A
conservative merchant class would rise up and start a conflict in order to escape from the terrific economic policies. This interpretive school was
created in the twentieth century and one interpreter is Carl Becker (1873–1945). Josiah Child fits this interpretive school because of he argued that
New England was becoming too independent and ignored what the British were telling them. Josiah also as a merchant himself knew that it was in
both interests of the two entities to remain separate. After World War II the interpretive school of the consensus historians came to a rise. Consensus
historians argued that the colonists had developed a democratic society. The colonists were happy with the status quo that they built. Yet, the British
destroyed it after the French and Indian war (1754–1763). After the proclamation of 1763, the British further infringed their individualism. This is what
forced the colonists to rebel. A supporter of this interpretation is Edmund
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Immigration Historiography
Immigration has been a central theme in the development of the United States. The influx of foreigners into the country has been met with acceptance
and restrictive policy since its formation. The reaction to diverse immigration created exclusionary policies first introduced in the late nineteenth
century and held in place by national origins quotas until 1965. The purpose of this historiography is to show how recent scholarship on immigration
has developed and changed in the last fifteen years. This historiography is divided into three types of studies. The first is focused on how historians
have extricated the individual from the broad historiography to give voice to specific ethnic groups as they negotiated for a place in the country.... Show
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The first type of study regards specific groups targeted by restrictive immigration policy. Various ethnic groups exhibited agency as they combated
discrimination. The works of Mae M. Ngai, Estelle T. Lau, and John S.W. Park are used to support this initial position. Although these works focus on
policy formation they also show immigrant responses to racially specific federal policy. Resistance and adaptability are themes that connect these
works as immigrants negotiated a place for themselves in the United States. The second grouping of studies will develop imposition theory to interpret
social and political responses to immigration over time. Policy imposed upon a targeted group is at the core of this theory as the state mandated
stringent requirements for entrance into the country and placed rigorous standards on resident aliens once here. John Higham, Desmond King, and
Martha Gardner assess this plight. These works elaborated on imposition theory, as immigrants became Americans and struggled against acculturation
and preservation of their culture. The last grouping of studies evaluates the development of a broad immigration policy. Keith Fitzgerald, Cheryl
Shanks, and Roger Daniels studies' span over a century of immigration policy. Evaluating these broad interpretations on immigration
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Enlightenment Historiography Essay
Did Enlightenment historiography neglect history?
Arthur Marwick in his Fundamentals of History suggests that when studying history it is important that there is a distinction made between History
and The Past, the former referring to the knowledge produced by historians about the past together with the teaching of that knowledge. Marwick states
that the latter is just 'everything that actually happened, whether known, or written, about by historians or not'. Enlightenment historiography is
particularly interesting because it shifted the way that historians look at and study history, specifically how society started to prioritise human rationality
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This way of studying the enlightenment was criticised initially because it is hard to understand the progress of enlightenment without any social or
geographical context of how the path was paved for great thinkers of the eighteenth century. Darnton suggested that perhaps new methodologies, that
would position the enlightenment into different geographical and economic perspectives as well as consider how it was transmitted through media in
eighteenth century France, needed to be developed and practiced. This suggests that perhaps the way that historians such as Peter Gay studied the
enlightenment was far too simplistic and placed more importance on the writings of the great thinkers than on the actual progress of the enlightenment
during that time period. Although this shows that some enlightenment historians ignored the social, geographical and economic context of the
enlightenment, it does not necessarily mean that they ignored History. This essay agrees with Marwick in the sense that History should be defined as
the bodies of knowledge produced about history and should not be confused with the past. These enlightenment historians focused specifically on
History by looking at just the writings of philosophes such as Voltaire and Kant, and rather Neglected The Past by not looking at social perspectives and
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The Feminist Movement Of Women Essay
Miller's work helped to shed light on the intersectionality of women's movements, not everyone agreed on what changes feminism should bring or if it
should exist at all in Mexican society. Before her work, "there existed a generally accepted assumption among politically active women that their
common interests as women–in gaining the vote, in health care, in education ––– cut across class backgrounds and ideological orientations." This was
most certainly not the case in Mexico, as Miller found out, being involved in the feminist movement meant that women risked "losing not only
respectability but their claim, as women and mothers, to the protection of society." Women played a major role in the protection of the longevity of
societal norms, as they trained the next generation. This idea was so entrenched in the Mexican social mores that women involved in the feminist
movement were considered to not be decent mothers or women. This led to a counter–movement by the Union of Catholic Women of Mexico that
"asserted that women place was in the home, and equated socialism with free love and feminism." Miller's book fits well with the other revisionist
history work that is going on during the late 1980s and 1990s. She notes that revisionist work has been going on in all disciplines, not just history, "For
nearly two decades, scholars and activists have painstakingly reexamined every field of human endeavor to reconquer–revindivar–––a space for women
in history, literature,
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What The Title Of Hobsbawm 's Book Can Indicate At A First...
Despite what the title of Hobsbawm's book can indicate at a first glance, his work is neither a step–by–step textbook of factual information about how
history should be written nor a series of directly given guidelines that historians should follow. Instead it is a book composed of twenty–one essays that
represent his own work transformed from their previous form as lectures, contributions to conferences or articles and reviews in different journals. As
Hobsbawm himself explains, his reflections on history for the better of his fifty–year career in history have brought together this collection of papers.
His essays deal with issues like the uses and abuses of history in both society and politics and concerns with historical interpretation while also looking
at the history of the discipline itself from the 1890s –when it became an academic subject– to the newer historical trends and fashions like
postmodernism. When looked at separately, the chapters in the book appear to be too different to fit in the same volume and developed by themselves
each can form a new book. However, Hobsbawm explains his reasoning behind adding each of them to the book. Chapter one stands out as Hobsbawm
addresses future generation of historians (it was at first an introductory lecture given at a university in Budapest), warning about the dangers of writing
history wrongly and outlining the main responsibilities of historians. Chapters two, three and four focus on the historian's concern with
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The Controversy Of The 1969 Stonewall Riots
The topic that the proposed book focuses on considers the contentious impact of the 1969 Stonewall Riots upon the struggle for LGBT+ rights. This
potential monograph, entitled "Riots for Rights: the Debatable Influence of Stonewall," pursues to furthermore enhance the argument concerning
whether the 1969 Stonewall Riots began the public LGBT+ movement for further rights, or if the converse occurred, wherein this momentous protest
instead the culminated the LGBT+ efforts of the previous years, merely pushing it further into public discussion. In the modern era, LGBT+ rights still
undergo fierce argument and debate, and so the proposed book's topic certainly holds relevance in both a historical and political context that continues
into the present day. Furthermore, another key importance for the publication of this monograph stands that while the voluminous documentation of
the progression in LGBT+ rights Post–Stonewall exists, serious evaluation and comparison of the rights already developing before the 1969 Riots
became widely publicized. "Riots for Rights: the Debatable Influence of Stonewall" would expand upon these facets and further the historical
understanding of the still–evolving history of the modern–day LGBT+ movement. While various historical methodologies prove useful for the
monograph's topic, in order to properly display the range of approaches the subject required a select number of methods chosen. The social historical
approach centers on the past
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Turing's Historiography
At this point it is worth exploring why Turing's posthumous image has only been fully reconstructed and promoted mostly after 1989. There are wider
factors in public history at work than the mere difficulty of obtaining sources. Some of the major barriers to Turing's renaissance during the second
wave of heroism can be reckoned from historiography and context. Indeed these major reasons for obscurity are sometimes a point of reference for
commentators highlighting present–day Britain's moral superiority over the past in recognising his heroic greatness, as Peter Tatchell has argued. 1
The changing fortunes of LGBT minorities in Britain are complex beyond full summary here. However, certain developments have played a significant
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7 The twentieth–century British public demonstrated a fundamental dislike of homosexuality when polled until relatively late. 8 This attitude has
undergone a dramatic reversal over the last fifteen years, marked by David Cameron's apology for the act in 201X. 9 10 It is also worth noting that
structural initiatives in historiography did not exist as mainstays of public history until recently. For example, LGBT History Month only emerged in
1994, mostly as the result of American activism in academia. Amidst a more general liberal malaise over historical and current homophobia, it can be
seen that the current promotion of Turing is, in part, a politicised attempt to atone for what is now mostly seen as an embarrassing, cruel mistake.
Divorced from disapproval of his personal life, security concerns have been an extremely negative factor in blocking promotion of Turing. This can be
demonstrated through both the evidence above and the comparable fortunes of his collages. It took until 19XX for Dilly Knox to receive his first
biographical volume, in which X marketed him as yet another "forgotten hero".11 Similarly, the first documentary to argue that Gordon Welchman was
unfairly overlooked as a heroic mathematician due to the NSA and Margaret Thatcher only aired in September 2015.
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The Movie ' Departures From The Historical Record
Davis claims that her work is more historical than the movie because the film–maker's "departures from the historical record." (Benson 57). That is,
Vigne's work lacks from historical understanding because he divires from the right direction due to several reasons including but not restricted to
ignoring the Basque region, neglecting religious issues, and disregarding complicity of Bertrande except in the last invented scene when she gave
water to judge, and she confessed to him. More importantly, the trial would have been confidential not open to public. In addition, the movie
characterized with the complicity and vagueness, which made it hard to interpret. As reported by Davis, the film's main problem lies in its failure to
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Basically, the film is there to make money, so the producers have to make it accessible to as many people as possible. Undoubtedly, the film
producers make their finishing touch in order to make it appeal to the audiences. They added some changes, such as using wrong color robes for the
judges of the Parlement of Toulouse as well as omitting vital information, which affects the original story by intention or chance in make it an artistic
touch rather than historical touch. It seems to me that Davis's book is more historical than the movie because she provides a detailed description of
the life of rural families during that time, and the journey of Martin's family from the Basque region to the Artigat because of political and economic
reasons. She goes more and demonstrates the social circumstances of the French peasantry in the sixteenth century. At any rate, Davis 's account of
both the trial and village life in Artigat is more historically accurate than the movie. Davis brings the story to life as a historical achievement. That is
why Davis writes her book specifically to address the shortage in the film and to "follow the historical evidence closely." It is unquestionable that
historians tend to be skeptical about their sources; it is the nature of any historical work, when they address basic facts that happened in the past.
Obviously enough, in the most cases,
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The Lecture At The Angelica Library
The Opportunity in Lecturing
Things to Take From my Latest Historical Lecture at the Angelica Library
On August 18th, 2016, I had presented a historical lecture on the Abolitionist History of Allegany County, at the Angelica Library. A number of times
over the years I have given presentations and lectures at my local library, for the sake of helping to spread ideas and information to others, developing
my skills, and other such purposes. I believe there is some use in reporting and reflecting upon it, and that there can be some things to take away from it.
As part of my activities for during the summer break, I had figured I would give another historical lecture at the Angelica Library. I figured that it
would be a useful continuity with some of the historical work that I have been doing. In the preceding semester I had written a paper on the abolitionist
history of Allegany County for a class in American Slavery. Following this, I had uncovered some further information on aspects of the subject. When it
came time for submissions to the annual Phi Alpha Theta regional history conference, I had decided to write another paper on the subject incorporating
this additional information. I had presented this paper at the conference at Ithaca College during my speaking section. From that point I had also gained
some other interesting bits of information to add on my knowledge on the matter. For instance, during another section of the conference I had listened
to the presentation
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Historiography During The Cold War
What is Historiography? The study and analysis of historical writings, the method of analyzing a historical period based on the perspectives of
historians to the event.
What is "critical analysis" in history writing? To critically analyze an event one must read about all aspects of a historical event in order to fully
understand that historical era. This is done by examining several primary source documents, as well as the perspectives of several historians. This way
we are able to break down a historical time and fully understand its success and failures.
For example: Reconstruction is the most controversial point in U.S. history in regards to its successes as well as its effect on the course of the country.
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Using military strategies, political doctrines, and economic aid, the United States was able to prevent the smaller countries from falling to into the
grasp of communism. brinkmanship: the practice of pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous
outcome. In the Cold War, the arms race and the space race where important aspects of brinkmanship.
Truman doctrine: established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat
from external or internal authoritarian forces, this was a part of the containment policy of the U.S. to stop Greece and Turkey from being taken over by
the Nazis.
Marshall plan: an American initiative to aid Europe, the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value) in
economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War
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The History of Those Without Wealth or Education Essay
History has been traditionally told from the point of view of those with wealth and education. But to truly understand history one must understand the
history of the people who were not writing the history which includes the nation's minorities, working class and those without a high level of
education. Society is made up of a variety of people and history is not complete without telling all of their stories. History was traditionally written
by a select number of people. This leads to a biased view of history because the educated could not experience every part of society. One example is
American slavery where many of the black slaves were not formally educated so they were not able to tell their stories. At first the educated white ...
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For example Providential history was written by governors and puritans to justify the ways of God. Rationalists were usually wealthy and classically
educated men with vast private resources who wrote history for leisure or to educate others with their success. Professional historians were college
educated and wrote history for a living. A branch of Professional history, new social history focused on the retelling of history which culminated in the
last 40 years. In these past 4 decades history was rewritten to include women and minorities. As they rose in power and influence they began to involve
themselves in the writing of history. The untold stories of the important events in American history such as the civil rights movement were now told
from a different point of view. History cannot be complete without including all information. If the government decided to eradicate events that made
the nation look bad then history will make no sense. This is happening in the textbooks of Shanghai. The textbooks now include no information on wars
dynasties and communist revolutions. Even chairman Mao, one of China's most significant historical figures is excluded. China prefers to focus on the
future rather than its past. The new textbooks de–emphasize the history of the peasants and workers and create an image of a China that cared more
about technology and trade.2 Reading through one of these textbooks, one can sense that content is missing. This is a clear of
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The Historiography Of Genevieve
Most of what we know of Genevieve comes from her hagiography. Although this is resourceful, it leaves us with limited historical documentation
beyond the miracles and saintly duties she performed. What we do know is that Genevieve was born during or shortly after the year 420 in Nanterre,
which is near Paris. Her parents, Severus (of Frankish origins) and Gerontia (of Germanic–Roman origins) were both peasants within the community.
When Saint Germanus traveled through Nanterre on his way to Britain, he encountered Genevieve. It is told that Genevieve desired to dedicate her life
to Christianity, but historical documentation notes that Saint Germanus prophesied Genevieve's miracle abilities and persuaded her to become
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Genevieve prophesied that if people fled the city, they would be ravaged and murdered. Instead, she encouraged all matrons to pray with her while
their husbands fought. This again enraged the Parisian leaders, but Saint Germanus interceded by offering up consecrated Eucharistic loaves.
After the siege of Paris, Genevieve continued performing miracles and also exorcisms. In 480, Paris was besieged by the Franks. Genevieve
bravely led her matrons with a fleet of boats on the Seine River to supply trapped citizens with grain and nourishment. Genevieve died around the
year 500 at the age of 82. During her lifetime, she was known as caretaker for the poor and sick. This role is similar to other saints of her times.
After her death, her hagiography praises her miracle abilities since the shrine of her burial becomes a site for miracles of healings. Genevieve was
soon sainted as the protector of Paris and her name is continually invoked to this day as a provider of healing and guardianship. Author Lisa Bitel
notes how the work of Genevieve helped build Christianity within barbarian Europe by way of her famed public miracles and continual
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Analysis Of Natalie Zemon-Davis's The Return Of Martin Guerre
Natalie Zemon–Davis's 1983 book The Return of Martin Guerre provided both the public and academic world with a fresh and interesting take on a
classic story. Presented like a mystery thriller, Davis weaves a tale of deception based on a solid framework of cultural history. Her narrative
depends on grounding the characters of Bertrande de Rols, Martin Guerre, Arnaud du Tihl, and their associates within a web of social context. Davis
draws heavily on the traditional Coras narrative, but also supplements the established story with the version presented in Le Sueur, a new source she
discovered. Additionally, she incorporates unusual sources dealing with broader social context and infers specifics from a general study of period
interactions. It is this latter approach that historian Robert Finlay disagrees with. He claims that Davis does not appropriately rely on the source
material provided by the Coras narrative and thus gives an unnecessarily dramatic version of events. The AHR forum on the subject includes both
Finlay's review and Davis's response, providing a model of scholarly debate that extends beyond the actual content of the book in question. In addition
to being a rhetorical critique, Finlay is attacking the foundational methodology of modern social history that Davis is then compelled to defend.
According to Robert Finlay, Zemon–Davis provides an overly romanticized version of the narrative that deviates too heavily from the source material.
While he qualifies his
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Kenya 's Independence From The British Empire
The Pipeline In the years leading up to Kenya's independence from the British Empire, a violent uprising later known as Mau Mau plagued the
colony. From1952 to 1960, African forest fighters waged a war against the British who had little experience fighting against guerilla warfare. In an
effort to bring the crime wave, as the British called it, to an end, colonial officials housed those who they believed to be working for or in
collaboration with the Mau Mau fighters in detention camps. The Kikuyu, Kenya's largest ethnic group, were those who were primarily targeted by the
British. This is due to the fact that the majority of Mau Mau fighters were members of that tribal/ethnic group. After several years and many reports of
brutality and massacres within the detention camps, members of the British population began to call for an end to the camps and an end to colonialism.
How were the British Empire and its allies able to justify such a horrific counterinsurgency program, especially so soon after the liberation of Nazi
concentration camps?
Historiography
Perhaps the two most notorious modern historians who have published comprehensive secondary sources regarding Mau Mau are Caroline Elkins
and David Anderson. Each has published a book about the rebellion and each book will be vital to my research regarding the Pipeline. Elkins' book,
Britain's Gulag in Kenya, goes into great detail about the Pipeline; she heavily critiques' the British and portrays Mau Mau as a race war.
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Silk Roads Or Steppe Roads In World History, By David...
David Christian proved his passion for digging deeper into history through use of writing the article "Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in
World History," published in the eleventh edition of the Journal of World History, in the spring of 2000 by the University of Hawaii Press. Christian
points out that trans–ecological exchanges are not fully appreciated and recognized in conventional historiography about the Silk Roads; he believes
they should be–since they play an important role in the expansion of the roads in the North and were apart of the flourishing of the Silk Roads. In
David's article, he recognizes different interpretations of the Silk Roads throughout different regions and time periods and relies on a plethora of
sources to do. Christian recognizes that the Silk Roads are ingrained into historiography of China, the Mediterranean world, inner and central Asia, and
also play a vital role as "links between different regions of the Afro–Eurasian landmass." As mentioned previously, this article observes that
historiography focuses on the trade between trans–civilizational societies and credits them as important to expansion and success of empires and
trans–civilizational regions. In later centuries, the historiography describes the flux and flow of the Silk Roads' flourishing. Through the use of
sources, Christian describes these successes to have been at peak from 100 CE to the first, second and third centuries.
The Golden Era was claimed to have ended after the Mongol period, due to being out shadowed by other trade routes and sea routes. However, the
article acknowledged that trans–Asian trade and travel later resumed, but the Silk Roads would never return to their original flourishing state. Different
interpretations of the Silk Roads continued throughout Christian's article. Conventional historiography in the classical era depicts that the birth of the
Silk Roads dates "from the opening of the state–sponsored trade between China and Central Asia at the end of the second century BCE." However,
David argues that Eurasian steppeland had "vigorous systems of trans–Eurasian exchanges" before then. Leaders in that time basically got handed
pre–established trade systems and routes.
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Gender And Sexuality As A Category For Historical Analysis
For years, many scholars have provided many discussions over the topic of gender and sexuality. However, one needs to ask themselves: Are these
two topics, gender and sexuality, useful as a category for historical analysis? The articles written by both Joan W. Scott and Afsaneh Najmabadi,
answer such a question. By critically examining and assessing their two article, can the usefulness of gender and sexuality as a category for historical
analysis be proven.
In "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," Joan W. Scott provides many angles to explore the relevancy of gender. The first thing that
needs to be examined is her argument. The main argument that Joan W. Scott is trying to make is how beneficial to history using gender as a
category for analysis would turn out. Another factor that needs to be made in assessing her article is how she presents her argument and findings.
Scott formats her article with a beginning, middle, and end. She begins by defining "gender," and how that term has been used in general. She goes
on to describe some of the theories that have analyzed gender. The next part that she explains is how, of late, politics has been coincided with the
analysis of gender. Finally, she ends her paper by providing her bottom–line opinion about the analysis and approach of gender.
Now with the structure of her paper in mind, the next important assessment is in the sources she uses. The sources that Joan Scott utilizes in her
argument are mostly
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Essay On Indian Historiography
How the Indian historiography has evolved from precolonial to post–colonial period?
Over the three millenniums, India has developed opulent and complex layers of culture, since geographically India lies at crossroads of trading routes.
From ancient times, people from diverse background and ethnicity came into India as traders and invaders via land as well as sea routes. They settled
down here and, over the time, India assimilated them in its cultural and social mosaic. Also, India remained a home of host of empires and kingdoms
with each having a peculiar history. Pre–colonial empires and kingships had history but it would be told orally and would occasionally be chronicled. It
were the Europeans particularly the British armed with documentation and statistical knowledge who introduced a systematic chronology of the Indian
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. As Jalal and Bose have argued that "the cracking and crumbling of the modern nation–state system, the disintegration of the socialist alternative, the
disillusionment with the false promises of capitalism, and the resurgence of redefined social identities thought to have been obliterated by the
steam–roller of modernization have all rendered interpretations of the modern era in South Asian and world history much more complex. Recent themes
in South Asian historiography have been the role of intermediate social groups in the construction of the British raj and that of 'subaltern' social groups
in anti–colonial resistance; the part played by the colonial state in the reinvention of communal and caste categories; the refashioning of social
relations of class by the linking of Indian economic regions to wider capitalist systems; and the impact of the interplay between national, communal
and regional levels of politics on the process of
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Essay on The Subaltern Turn: Rereading Grirish Karnad’s...
"As we grow older as a race, we grow aware that history is written, that it is a kind of literature without morality. That in its actuaries the ego of the
race is indissoluble and that everything depends on whether we write this fiction through the memory of hero or of victim."Derek Walcot (The
Postcolonial Studies Reader 371)
After Edward Said's Orientalism (1978); a new milestone in the history of literacy criticism that heralded the postcolonial school of criticism many
revisionist approaches emanated to question the self proclaimed 'truths' and 'facts' and the story behind the histories with an aim to discover the other
side of the coin. The Subaltern Studies Group founded in 1982 is another name of such emerging schools which seeks ... Show more content on
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The only group Gramsci had in mind at that time was the workers and peasants who were oppressed and discriminated by the leader of National
Fascist Party, Benito Mussolini and his agents. Gramsci's deeply formulated ideas about the class of peasants as a social, cultural and political force
aware of its distinct consciousness of subalternity made other subsequent 20th Century South Asian scholars working on the issues of Indian peasantry
historiography resume his effort. This school led by Ranajit Guha came to be known as the Subaltern Studies Group or Subaltern Studies Collective
which comprised a number of other South Asian historians, social critics and scholars like Shahid Amin, Dipesh Chakraborty, David Arnold, Partha
Chatterjee, David Hardiman, Gyanendra Pandey and Sumit Sarkar . Gramsci's ideas were further more developed by Ranajit Guha in his manifesto
The Subaltern Studies I and his famous treatise The
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Suggestions For Apsi From Billie Jean Clemens
Suggestions for APSI from Billie Jean Clemens 1.A misunderstanding still exists as to the approach of the redesign. What does it mean to teach
history in the digital age where students have access to facts at the swipe of a finger? Teachers need to understand that the redesign represents a
paradigm shift in the way history is taught, no longer does one need to cover it all at breakneck speed and hope something sticks. However, how
does one teach a conceptual approach to history that emphasizes the application of historical thinking skills while still holding students accountable
for a core of knowledge? The workshops, through collaborative conversations and the development of quality lesson plans, need to educate teachers
as to what this really looks like in the classroom. 2.Above all, the workshops need to emphasize the crucial role of historical thinking skills; how one
would teach those skills; AND, how those skills are assessed on the test. While the new Curriculum Framework has done a nice job of explaining
these skills, teachers need explicit instruction on how the skills are assessed on the exam. For example, in the CF, neither the description nor the
proficient expectations explain that in a periodization essay students must explain how the period was different AND similar to the developments that
preceded and/or followed. Even though this is clearly stated on the rubrics for the exam, a teacher new to the course would have to realize that both
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The Contrasting Roles of Historians and Scientists Essay
Historians utilize primary sources to reconstruct events that have previously occurred in order to create a clearer image of the past. In opposition,
human scientists investigate varying aspects of human activity to reveal discoveries that are meant to bring significant changes to the future. This is
presented in the assertion that "The historian's task is to understand the past; the human scientist, by contrast, is looking to change the future." This
appears to be false considering that both the historian and the human scientist require a satisfactory comprehension of past events, as their roles
necessitate a desire to change the future. The respective areas of knowledge of the historian and human scientist express this through the lens ... Show
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The false assertion claims that historians solely work to determine an understanding of the past. The historian's role is defined with a dictation of
understanding the past; however their study of the past is through today's lens. Thus, they are writing in hindsight. A knowledge issue is present with
the "fallible" eyewitnesses in primary sources which cannot be entirely accepted as the truth due to flexible interpretations. History, a reconstruction of
events, is viewed from a modern standpoint allowing the historian to produce secondary sources using primary sources as a basis. These sources
suggest that those who control the past also control the future expressing the need for historians to look at evidence in terms of the future. Furthermore,
historical interpretations are inevitably bonded with a sense of personal value as historians fail to simply regurgitate prior knowledgebut rather use it
as a creative endeavor combining evidence with imagination. This leads to the derivation of a unique conclusion in retelling events of the past.
Although, it can be argued that the historian's purpose is to eliminate issues such as bias and empathy. However, this proves to be impossible as they
inevitably include a sense of empiricism.
Trends of the past are evident in history. History is not necessarily proven to repeat itself yet a considerable amount of information suggests this. This
information can be analyzed in
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The Partition Of Indi A New Understanding Of Partition
In 1947, the partition of India on the departure of British colonial power laid the seed for widespread bloodshed, Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin
pioneer a new understanding of partition through the voices of affected women for the first time, whose stories were buried under the dust of time and
the blankets of the patriarch. Authors, Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin both have strong roots in women's studies. Menon as an independent scholar and
publisher focused on violence against women, and Bhasin for her work with South Asian women's movements for the United Nations. As feminist
scholars and activists, Menon and Bhasin's Borders and Boundaries expands from their previous scholarly publications. Menon and Bhasin argue the
importance of a feminist approach to studying India's partition against the backdrop of an overwhelming wealth of political and communal histories,
the gruesome reality that Partition was distant from the smooth process written on paper. They also argue the objectification of women, whose bodies
became symbolic territories to 'claimed, conquered and marked, as "women became the respective countries, indelibly imprinted by the other."
Encapsulating feminist history, Menon and Bhasin chronologically ordered their argument, outlining the phases of partition from a woman's
perspective. The first chapter, speaking for themselves, addresses the challenges faced in the research phase of the book and the historiographical
importance for giving silenced partitioned
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Historiography The Natural
Historiography Historiography is a historical film theory that focuses on the assumptions, principles, and methodologies of historical study (Giannetti,
528). Giannetti divides this theoretical study into four different types of film history: aesthetic, technological, economic, and social. According to
American scholar, Raymond Fielding, "the history of motion pictures–as an art form, as a medium of communication, and as an industry–has been
determined principally by technological innovations" (Giannetti, 531). With time comes much technological advancement that will allow filmmakers
to accurately portray what they want and give the audiences the intended experience. Technological advancements have aided in the production of The
Rookie and The Natural in the sense that both films could be shown through a multitude of decadal lenses. Both films show the main characters in their
childhood and how that has shaped who they are, but it also shows them in adulthood as well. The changes in time range from ... Show more content on
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While The Natural contains many attributes from each perspective, the analysis can best be related to structuralism and semiology. Joseph Campbell
mentions a good point while discussing the function of mythology by saying that, "one of the functions of mythology is to guide human spirit by
providing common or universal symbols that offset that darker nature of humans" (Wood & Pincus, 22). The Natural most certainly follows this
function with the underlying network of symbolic meaning along with its many symbols. Each of the metaphors discussed by Wood and Pincus can
relate to the points previously mentioned in the structuralism/semiology section and their analysis includes some aspects not previously noted that
would further contribute to the underlying structure, such as the 'universal
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How Have New Emphases And Interpretative Lenses Is History
How have new emphases and interpretative lenses emphasizing history from below affected the more traditional subfields of political, military,
diplomatic, and sectional history and how do they affect world history. During the past century these four subfields have evolved within themselves to
rise from their traditional methodologies of study to incorporating social and cultural historiography to better analyze their subject matter; while turning
from an inner study, as it applies to the United States, towards a more world view. The authors of this week's reading project's a theme or commonality
that has affected their subfield from the turn of the century until now. They all mention Frederick Jackson Turner's reading of his famous paper, "The
Significance of the Frontier in American History," where he "argued that frontier settlement, and not institutional and spiritual inheritance from the Old
World, accounted for the origins and peculiar development of American democracy." This was the first time interpretations of social and cultural were
utilized in the studies of particular subfields that started the Progressive era that lasted until the start of World War II. During this period studies were
from the "bottom–up" versus the old "top–to–bottom" approach; going from the great men and great events, to the study of the ordinary people and
incorporating previously neglected groups like women and black. Following the war the counter–Progressive or consensus
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The Controversy Of Historiography
Historiography is the methodically of which history is written. There has been some controversy regarding the way historians portray women over the
years, mainly because women tend to be unrepresented. Their importance is not stressed enough, historian devote little attention to class issues that
seriously affected black women. Even when history is focused on African American studies, there is more of an emphasis on the black men, as opposed
to black women. From the beginning, European whites have created an image of woman has unworthy and undeserving. In a world where status is
heavily based on race and gender, woman already had two strikes against them: they are black and non–male. During the colonial days in The United
States, only white
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The Pervasiveness Of Media In Contemporary US Culture
Indeed, the pervasiveness of media in its copious forms in contemporary US culture today is undeniable. Almost anywhere one looks, one can find
media; a magazine at a doctor's office, a billboard alongside a freeway, a painting at an art gallery, a performance on television or on stage. Media,
undeniably, is ubiquitous. However, in the innumerous forms media comes to us in, every one of these forms are created for a purpose; to
communicate of an idea or message. But how are students, as well as educators, supposed to interact and interpret media? Auspiciously, just as with
any subject of study, one must become literate in its forms and uses. Thus, media literacy is a vital tool set for interacting and interpreting content of
any discipline; particularly history education. Certainly, media literacy seeks to teach fluency in the forms of media, how it functions and can
influence trends in society. However, media and its messages are not a direct form of communication. "Media does not offer a transparent window,
as Buckingham writes, 'only a representation' of an idea (Buckingham, 2004. p. .) Further, this 'representation' of an idea or message, as Hoechsmann
& Poyntz write, always "involve(s) a reflection, selection and deflection of reality" (Hoechsmann & Poyntz, 2012, p. 73). Thus, to achieve fluency
with media, the goal of media literacy is to develop personal agency within an individual. Personal agency, as defined by Buckingham, is the ability to
be an active
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Historiography Of The British Empire
Any historiography of The British Raj must first start with the understanding that The British Raj fits within the broader historic concept of The British
Empire. In the late 19th Century, many historians proposed that the history of The British Empire could be broken down into The First British Empire
and The Second British Empire. The British Raj falls within the category of The Second British Empire within this view. The previous British
involvement in India, via The East India Company, would largely fall within First British Empire. The opinions of historians, not any official
decree by British law or authorities, are the basis for the concept of multiple periods of The British Empire. There was never an official start, or end
date, for either period of empire. The British Empire was never an official entity, as in there was not a document or constitution dictating how it was
administered. As a result, the colonial administrations varied depending on the colony to which they belonged. The views on The British Empire,
during its height, were not a single monolithic view shared by all British citizens, but varied across the full spectrum from unwavering support to
strong opposition. Joseph Chamberlain's 1897 book The True Conception of Empire provides an excellent quote that sums up a common mindset of
the era. "We feel now that our rule over these territories can only be justified if we can show that it adds to the happiness and prosperity of the people,
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The Social History Of Medicine
Earlier issues of SHM include articles that are profoundly insistent upon the importance of 'history from below' in developing and constituting
understandings of health and medicine. As these articles were primarily structured and written during the cultural and linguistic turn in historical
analysis it is clear that they present arguments that aim to revise modernist approaches to the social history of medicine. Most of which are interested in
the history of published medical texts or the views of the medical elite. The article by Liora Navon, 'Beggars, Metaphors, and Stigma: A Missing
Link in the Social History of Leprosy' outlines the need for the adoption of a 'history from below' perspective in addressing understandings of leprosy
in Thailand. Her article states that 'the interviews conducted for this study with patients diagnosed before the 1950s and their offspring reveal that,
unlike their portrayal in archival sources, manifestations of extremely negative or positive attitudes were quite rare.' Similarly Peter Elmer's review of
Medicine and the Market in England and Its Colonies, c.1450–c. 1850, by Mark S. R. Jenner and Patrick Wallis argues that their work attributes a link
between the creation of a medical marketplace with a 'reorientation towards the role of the patient in medical transactions'. Found even within the title
of the article 'Speed in the Third Reich: Metamphetamine (Pervitin) Use and a Drug History From Below' by Stephen Snelders and Toine Pieters,
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Historiography Of Karnataka
A much early historiography of Karnataka by Aluru Venkatarao also delineates on similar lines identifying the juncture of Battle of Talikota in 1565 as
the time of decline of glory of Karnataka. In his 1917 work titled Karnataka Gatha Vaibhava , Aluru Venkata Rao writes thus:
Having flourished for 230 years this glorious kingdom disappeared in half a minute by accident. It dies. That was the end of Karnataka's glory. The
kumkum was wiped off Karnatakadevi's forehead! The mangalsutra round her neck was cut! Karnataka's wealth was destroyed Karnataka's
intellectual wealth disappeared. The sun of Karnataka's valour set. To summarise: since that day, we people of Karnataka have become an empty
name in history. Oh, ye of Karnataka, has the time still not arrived for a recovery of past glories? Think about it. (71)
For Aluru Venkata Rao, the glory of Karnataka has flourished for about 230 years, while the 1947 historiography of Karnataka takes it much farther
back in time. However, a significant aspect to be noticed in the above quoted excerpt is the metaphorical manner in which the land Karnataka is
sketched in the image of a goddess. The appropriation of Karnataka in the image of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Shilpa Phadke, speaking in general about the Women's movement in India points to the fact that:
The movement in the late 1970s constructed itself as secular but did not make any effort to define its identity as such. It was assumed that affiliations
with the women's movement were based on gender and positions of difference were articulately largely on grounds of class rather than caste or
religious community. Class was constructed as a modern identity unlike caste or religious community, which were seen as pre–modern identities to be
transcended.
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Historiography Of The 1940s
The collapse of the military junta signified the decline of the traditional interpretative schemes and frameworks for the 1940s that dominated the
domestic historiography for over thirty years. This traditional approach is encapsulated in the theory of the 'three rounds' of the quasi–deliberate
communist attempt to seize power by force of arms in 1943–1944, in December 1944 and in 1946–1949. The decade of the 1970s saw the emergence
of a young generation of scholars who introduced a revisionist school of thought and marked a paradigm shift in the academic discourse on the 1940s.
This generation, which continued to dominate the historiography of the 1940s until the end of the cold–war period, questioned many of the traditional
interpretations
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Browning Primary Sources
Historians believe they need to find the truth. They make arguments, write papers, and give lecture on what they are saying is the truth. Historians want
to learn what happened. This is important, because history teaches many lessons. Students of history agree or disagree with historian's arguments and
what they say happened or what is the cause of some event. The best historians are the ones who write the strongest arguments. To make strong
arguments, it's very important to use strong sources. Sources are either primary or secondary. The primary sources are the original ones, which date
back to the events of that time period. Secondary sources are the arguments of other historians or anything that talks about primary sources. Choosing
the best sources means understanding what the source is saying and using accurate information to make your own argument. When historians feel that
the existing work fails to mention or inaccurately claims something that's important. to the historian, they write their own argument. The historian wants
to write a better argument, which other historians and students will regard ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
Therefore, he was not old enough to experience the Holocaust and World War II, like Bauer. He was still a baby. Browning's experience is good
because he's not especially emotionally connected to the Holocaust. He published his most popular book, Ordinary Men, in 1992. This is also much
later than the other two writers. Browning had the benefit of Dawidowicz, Bauer, and other historians work, like future historians will benefit from his.
Browning is a functionalist, and he does not believe that the Holocaust was strictly Hitler's intent all along. The thesis of Browning's book is that the
Holocaust was caused by many factors, and the anti–Semitism began on a smaller scale as Hitler tried to kick the Jewish people out of Germany,
which eventually spiraled into deciding to commit crazy mass murder.
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Why Mental Illness Has Changed American Views On Mental...

  • 1. Why Mental Illness Has Changed American Views On Mental... Mental illness has continually been part of life in the United States, albeit a part of American life that is not often discussed. Insane asylums for housing the mentally ill developed later during colonial America. New scientific ideas and the continuing influence of the Enlightenment led to further usage of insane asylums, where a widely–used architectural style developed. Commonly known as Kirkbride or linear plan asylums, these asylums were popular in the mid–nineteenth century, and were massive, intimidating structures built to impress visitors while providing care to the mentally ill housed inside. This actual style was predominant from the 1850s to just after the Civil War and their creation and fall from popularity changed... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This thesis will bridge the gap between these two theories. It will also address the theoretical division in the historiography. The architecture of Kirkbride asylums suggests that there was a dual purpose in the creation of these massive, imposing buildings; they were created to treat the mentally ill, but the idealistic writings of superintendents of this period did not reflect the true reality of asylum life, and thus control played a large aspect in the building and workings of insane asylums in mid–nineteenth century America. There have been scholarly works published about both Kirkbride asylums and insane asylums in the United States in general. Dr. Henry M. Hurd, a Superintendent at John Hopkins Hospital, wrote a four–volume book called The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada in 1916, which was one of the first comprehensive scholarly works on mental hospitals in the United States. His view is important, as he admonished the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), a group of superintendents over insane asylums, to change its name and focus, as it had changed since Kirkbride's time. He gave histories of these mental hospitals, and his figures are used through the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. Another earlier source on this subject is Margaret McCulloch's "Founding the North Carolina Asylum for the Insane." Her article focused on North Carolina and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 2. Jazz historiography The rapid development of jazz in both the United States and Europe generated a number of diverse musical expressions, including musics that most listeners today would not recognize as "jazz" music. In order to remedy this situation, jazz musicians and critics after 1930 began to codify what "real" jazz encompassed, and more importantly, what "real" jazz did not encompass. This construction of authenticity, often demarcated along racial lines, served to relegate several artists and styles (those outside a "mainstream" to the margins of historiography. The issue of race is central to all discourses of jazz. Alongside race goes the problem of representation, or, who gets to play what for whom and under what circumstance. Problems of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... It creates a false binary in which the only races involved in the creation or playing of jazz are black and white, thus implicitly writing European, Roma, Latin American, or other ethnic groups out of the narrative, a mistake this thesis will seek to correct by including guitarists from outside the black /white binary as valid contributors to discourse. Ideas intimately tied to issues of race and social impact is the issue of authenticity. What constitutes real (authentic) jazz and who are jazz's authentic players? For that matter, what are authentic jazz instruments? Authenticity is usually defined by race, ethnicity, and/or musical pedigree, though there seems to be a hierarchy at work in those definitions. of authenticity, however, are not real or absolute; they are imaginary constructs made to suit the ideological needs of fans, writers, musicians, and critics. Black musicians are usually considered to be more authentic than white musicians; however, white American musicians are more authentic than their European counterparts. While jazz might be an African–American music, it is still often viewed as being uniquely American. Europeans, in turn, are more authentic than other ethnic sub–groups, like Roma, or other nationalities. These notions of authenticity were some of the most influential factors in the shaping of jazz discourse. Pedigree, whether real or assumed, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 3. The Partition onf India The Partition of India in August, 1947 was a significant event in history that accounted for the separation of one of the world's oldest civilization into two, independent nations – Pakistan and India. Like many other wars in history, The Partition of India was instigated by religious, political and social conflict. This resulted in violence, discrimination and the largest human displacement in contemporary history. While the Partition was well–studied, much of our understanding was focused on the political side of history, not the human side of it. This was why oral history played an important role in manifesting the complexity of a historical event. Our focus here is Maya Rani's testimony from Butalia's book, The Other Side of Silence: ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... To Rani, 'people dying here, others dying there' (cited in Butalia, 2000, p.268) was something that happened every day, it was no surprise to her. Thus, Rani's cynical view about the future of India and Pakistan was conceivably drawn from memories of witnessing horrendous fights and strife throughout her whole life (cited in Butalia, 2000, p.268). Official documents have little say about women and children of the Partition as they were viewed as a collective. Earlier reports on the abduction of women only gave the reader the statistics and brief statements that glorified community nationalism rather than the victims itself. Many failed to dwell into the individual trauma of this particular group (Menon & Bhasin, 1998, p.11). Rani's testimony was significant in that not only it opened us to another outlook from a witness point of view; it also revealed that people who were not physically involved were also affected psychologically. This was also the only part in the testimony where Rani displayed sympathy and grievance. Her sensitivity and deep connection with these victims correlated with age and gender. Her emphasis on the words 'young' and 'girl' throughout her testimony evoked our sense of disbelief that people would do such inhumane things to each other (cited in Butalia, 2000, p.271). Her hesitant manner, evident ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 4. Germany 's War And The Holocaust : Disputed Histories Julia Katzman December 4, 2014 History of War Professor Nolan Book Review #2 Evaluating History Bartov, Omer. Germany 's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. Kindle. For decades, historians and citizens have struggled to grasp the relationship between the German army and the mass murders committed during the Holocaust. These questions have persisted since the concentration camps were liberated and the extent of the atrocities committed during World War II were revealed. Omer Bartov provides a myriad of scholarly interpretations in his fifth book, Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories. In this work, Bartov provides a historical and scholarly discourse on the German army and its institutionalization of mass murder. Overall, Bartov's book is well supported through his extensive use of secondary material and his ability to appropriately characterize specific nations' reactions to historical Holocaust assertions. However, Bartov's lack of primary documents, exaggerated critiques, and organizational flaws detract from his expressed thesis. These deficiencies cause his work to read more as a disjointed series of book reviews, rather than a single, unified statement. Omer Bartov separates his analysis into three different sections, each of which comments upon prominent issues in Holocaust scholarship. His first section discusses the nature of the German army on the Eastern Front during World War II, where ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 5. Historiography Of Hamlet "When did it all start, you ask, this job of ours, how did it come about, where, when? Well, I'd say it really got started around about a thing called the Civil War. Even though our rule–book claims it was founded earlier. The fact is we didn't get along well until photography came into its own. Then – motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass." Montag sat in bed, not moving. "And because they had mass, they became simpler," said Beatty. "Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple population. Films and radios, magazines, books levelled ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog–lovers, the cat–lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second–generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive. And the three–dimensional sex–magazines, of course. There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 6. Critical Problem Of Selective Reliance On Secondary... Part2 The article of Ian Lustick focuses on the critical problem of selective reliance on secondary historiographical sources by historically–minded political scientists. Lustick observes that political scientists often make mistakes by rooting their research without paying attention to the issue of how to select historical events and thus comes up with an approach that does not treat historiographies as "History," but as particular interpretations of history that can be used to multiply the number of observations to outnumber variables to make valid inferences: "if we treat our database as "historiography" or "histories" and not "History," then the actual number of "cases" expands from the number of episodes to the number of accounts of those episodes"(Lusktick). The problems with historiographies is that, historians like many political scientists tend to include their own commitments and political engagement and eventually fall into selection bias when doing their research. This bias can occur when he/she selects historiographical accounts prioritizing one historical events and human behavior that sync with their own political theories over the others. (pg. 608). Lustick deals with the issue of how to choose sources of data without selecting specific ones that matches your thesis. By doing so, he criticize Barrington Moore's seminal 1966 book, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, noting that Moore selectively references historical accounts to support his ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 7. History : A New Form Of History Doing History Essay: Up until the early nineteenth–century, history had been written in two dominant traditions, "one predominantly learned and antiquarian, the other essentially literary". However, a postmodern shift in historiography has led to a new form of history, namely 'disobedient histories'. 'Disobedienthistory' as a new form of history moves away from Leopold Von Ranke's ideas of history being a rigorous scientific inquiry towards a more diverse and cultured form. Some of these forms include graphic novels, photo journals, dramatised series of events or blog posts. My output was the latter, my blog post was designed to analyse literary and artistic form of memory in the Holocaust, and the problems the forms present. By choosing the medium of a blog post I aimed to challenge traditional academic rules, to use a medium that would serve to democratise history for the modern era, and also to create conversation with the wider socio cultural scene; with the argument also pertaining to 'disobedient history' as a recognisable form of history method and writing. As expected, the blog that has been created is not a traditional academic form of historical writing; however, new works in the field of historical writing may argue differently. In the traditional orthodox view of history, there has been a refusal to consider historical narratives as a manifestation of 'verbal fictions'. As Hayden White describes "verbal fictions, the contents of which are as much invented as ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 8. Personal Historiography A long time ago, at my first book keeping job, I was challenged with helping a recently divorced man reorganize and relocate the office portion of his business. Like most marriages she was the brains of the operation, when it came to the finances. After the split his business took a major hit due to his lack of knowledge of the office portion of the company. The man was a great deasil mechanic but not so savvy with paperwork and tracking expenses. The first step we tackled was organizing the new office. I am not sure how the old one was ran, but the man didn't have one thing carry over to the new office. I remember the first time I walked in, it was just boxes piled high with random paperwork everywhere. It was not an easy task but we worked several nights a week in order to get it all sorted out. We started from scratch and had to input everything into his new QuickBooks program and set up folders to organize all of his clientele information. This being my first time booking keeping and running an office, I had to learn a lot, fast, and mostly on my own. By the time all this... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... It was not as simple as you might think. I set up a box in the cab of his truck and would have folders labeled for each job he was working on, along with an invoice to fill in as he went. All he had to do was place the receipts and paperwork in the proper folder and write down the billable hours. Somehow I kept getting back a box of random receipts and folders with blank invoices. So at the end of the job we would have to sit there together and pick through said box of receipts and decipher what went where, so we could bill the clients. It was never an easy task and he ended up losing a few jobs due to the office hours he was having to put in. I am happy to say that he did eventually get into a routine with his end of the paperwork and was able to focus more on his side of the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 9. Middle English Prehistory Essay Prehistory refers to a time period in the past before the introduction of writing, or the time before history was written by the people. Another definition states that prehistory is the time and a series of events before and eventually led to the development of something (e.g. a certain material or philosophy). Moreover, the University of Leicester define prehistory as a study of the human past from 3.2 million years ago wherein the first stone tools were made, until the modern era. There is no strict time period of prehistory, and a prehistory of a certain area may end later than that of the other. For example, Britain ended its prehistory when the Roman army arrived there, while in Australia, hunter–gatherers have been dwelling in that continent at the instant of the European invasion in the 18th century. Practically, prehistory is more concerned with the lives of the people during those times and how the characteristics of these societies are interpreted based on records and material ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The Latin also had the term historia, or "a narrative of past events, account, tale, story" and the Greek historia means "knowing by inquiry; an account of one's inquiries". Furthermore, it is related to the Greek word idein or "to see", and the word eidenai, which means to know. In the 15th century, Middle English, however, does not differentiate history from the word story, or "a record of past events". History covers several disciplines, primarily comparative history and historiography. Comparative history is about learning and comparing the features of human experience and the different periods and societies in the history of mankind, while historiography is based on how historians make history, how sources are used in writing history, and how history should be studied based on certain ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 10. Interpretive Schools: The Role Of Historiography In History Historiography in a brief definition is the record of what is known about the past and a number of interpretations through scholarly criticism. It focuses on historical research as it is constantly changing. Most of the interpretations before the nineteen sixties dealt with politics. It is through socials movements that scholarly literature began to include social, cultural, racial, gender and countercultural histories. Many people that studied history interpreted it very differently and out of this interpretive schools occurred. These interpretive schools sparked debates which continues to influence history today. Thus, the importance ofhistoriography is that it involves many different views, many different ideologies and many different ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... They believed that there were economic advantages to breaking away from Britain. Colonists were competing with the English government in the economy and the English were taking their money. Great Britain constantly argued with the social classes and argued who should rule America. A conservative merchant class would rise up and start a conflict in order to escape from the terrific economic policies. This interpretive school was created in the twentieth century and one interpreter is Carl Becker (1873–1945). Josiah Child fits this interpretive school because of he argued that New England was becoming too independent and ignored what the British were telling them. Josiah also as a merchant himself knew that it was in both interests of the two entities to remain separate. After World War II the interpretive school of the consensus historians came to a rise. Consensus historians argued that the colonists had developed a democratic society. The colonists were happy with the status quo that they built. Yet, the British destroyed it after the French and Indian war (1754–1763). After the proclamation of 1763, the British further infringed their individualism. This is what forced the colonists to rebel. A supporter of this interpretation is Edmund ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 11. Immigration Historiography Immigration has been a central theme in the development of the United States. The influx of foreigners into the country has been met with acceptance and restrictive policy since its formation. The reaction to diverse immigration created exclusionary policies first introduced in the late nineteenth century and held in place by national origins quotas until 1965. The purpose of this historiography is to show how recent scholarship on immigration has developed and changed in the last fifteen years. This historiography is divided into three types of studies. The first is focused on how historians have extricated the individual from the broad historiography to give voice to specific ethnic groups as they negotiated for a place in the country.... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The first type of study regards specific groups targeted by restrictive immigration policy. Various ethnic groups exhibited agency as they combated discrimination. The works of Mae M. Ngai, Estelle T. Lau, and John S.W. Park are used to support this initial position. Although these works focus on policy formation they also show immigrant responses to racially specific federal policy. Resistance and adaptability are themes that connect these works as immigrants negotiated a place for themselves in the United States. The second grouping of studies will develop imposition theory to interpret social and political responses to immigration over time. Policy imposed upon a targeted group is at the core of this theory as the state mandated stringent requirements for entrance into the country and placed rigorous standards on resident aliens once here. John Higham, Desmond King, and Martha Gardner assess this plight. These works elaborated on imposition theory, as immigrants became Americans and struggled against acculturation and preservation of their culture. The last grouping of studies evaluates the development of a broad immigration policy. Keith Fitzgerald, Cheryl Shanks, and Roger Daniels studies' span over a century of immigration policy. Evaluating these broad interpretations on immigration ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 12. Enlightenment Historiography Essay Did Enlightenment historiography neglect history? Arthur Marwick in his Fundamentals of History suggests that when studying history it is important that there is a distinction made between History and The Past, the former referring to the knowledge produced by historians about the past together with the teaching of that knowledge. Marwick states that the latter is just 'everything that actually happened, whether known, or written, about by historians or not'. Enlightenment historiography is particularly interesting because it shifted the way that historians look at and study history, specifically how society started to prioritise human rationality over faith. Previously, traditional Christian historians would account every major event or ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This way of studying the enlightenment was criticised initially because it is hard to understand the progress of enlightenment without any social or geographical context of how the path was paved for great thinkers of the eighteenth century. Darnton suggested that perhaps new methodologies, that would position the enlightenment into different geographical and economic perspectives as well as consider how it was transmitted through media in eighteenth century France, needed to be developed and practiced. This suggests that perhaps the way that historians such as Peter Gay studied the enlightenment was far too simplistic and placed more importance on the writings of the great thinkers than on the actual progress of the enlightenment during that time period. Although this shows that some enlightenment historians ignored the social, geographical and economic context of the enlightenment, it does not necessarily mean that they ignored History. This essay agrees with Marwick in the sense that History should be defined as the bodies of knowledge produced about history and should not be confused with the past. These enlightenment historians focused specifically on History by looking at just the writings of philosophes such as Voltaire and Kant, and rather Neglected The Past by not looking at social perspectives and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 13. The Feminist Movement Of Women Essay Miller's work helped to shed light on the intersectionality of women's movements, not everyone agreed on what changes feminism should bring or if it should exist at all in Mexican society. Before her work, "there existed a generally accepted assumption among politically active women that their common interests as women–in gaining the vote, in health care, in education ––– cut across class backgrounds and ideological orientations." This was most certainly not the case in Mexico, as Miller found out, being involved in the feminist movement meant that women risked "losing not only respectability but their claim, as women and mothers, to the protection of society." Women played a major role in the protection of the longevity of societal norms, as they trained the next generation. This idea was so entrenched in the Mexican social mores that women involved in the feminist movement were considered to not be decent mothers or women. This led to a counter–movement by the Union of Catholic Women of Mexico that "asserted that women place was in the home, and equated socialism with free love and feminism." Miller's book fits well with the other revisionist history work that is going on during the late 1980s and 1990s. She notes that revisionist work has been going on in all disciplines, not just history, "For nearly two decades, scholars and activists have painstakingly reexamined every field of human endeavor to reconquer–revindivar–––a space for women in history, literature, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 14. What The Title Of Hobsbawm 's Book Can Indicate At A First... Despite what the title of Hobsbawm's book can indicate at a first glance, his work is neither a step–by–step textbook of factual information about how history should be written nor a series of directly given guidelines that historians should follow. Instead it is a book composed of twenty–one essays that represent his own work transformed from their previous form as lectures, contributions to conferences or articles and reviews in different journals. As Hobsbawm himself explains, his reflections on history for the better of his fifty–year career in history have brought together this collection of papers. His essays deal with issues like the uses and abuses of history in both society and politics and concerns with historical interpretation while also looking at the history of the discipline itself from the 1890s –when it became an academic subject– to the newer historical trends and fashions like postmodernism. When looked at separately, the chapters in the book appear to be too different to fit in the same volume and developed by themselves each can form a new book. However, Hobsbawm explains his reasoning behind adding each of them to the book. Chapter one stands out as Hobsbawm addresses future generation of historians (it was at first an introductory lecture given at a university in Budapest), warning about the dangers of writing history wrongly and outlining the main responsibilities of historians. Chapters two, three and four focus on the historian's concern with ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 15. The Controversy Of The 1969 Stonewall Riots The topic that the proposed book focuses on considers the contentious impact of the 1969 Stonewall Riots upon the struggle for LGBT+ rights. This potential monograph, entitled "Riots for Rights: the Debatable Influence of Stonewall," pursues to furthermore enhance the argument concerning whether the 1969 Stonewall Riots began the public LGBT+ movement for further rights, or if the converse occurred, wherein this momentous protest instead the culminated the LGBT+ efforts of the previous years, merely pushing it further into public discussion. In the modern era, LGBT+ rights still undergo fierce argument and debate, and so the proposed book's topic certainly holds relevance in both a historical and political context that continues into the present day. Furthermore, another key importance for the publication of this monograph stands that while the voluminous documentation of the progression in LGBT+ rights Post–Stonewall exists, serious evaluation and comparison of the rights already developing before the 1969 Riots became widely publicized. "Riots for Rights: the Debatable Influence of Stonewall" would expand upon these facets and further the historical understanding of the still–evolving history of the modern–day LGBT+ movement. While various historical methodologies prove useful for the monograph's topic, in order to properly display the range of approaches the subject required a select number of methods chosen. The social historical approach centers on the past ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 16. Turing's Historiography At this point it is worth exploring why Turing's posthumous image has only been fully reconstructed and promoted mostly after 1989. There are wider factors in public history at work than the mere difficulty of obtaining sources. Some of the major barriers to Turing's renaissance during the second wave of heroism can be reckoned from historiography and context. Indeed these major reasons for obscurity are sometimes a point of reference for commentators highlighting present–day Britain's moral superiority over the past in recognising his heroic greatness, as Peter Tatchell has argued. 1 The changing fortunes of LGBT minorities in Britain are complex beyond full summary here. However, certain developments have played a significant part in suppressing ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... 7 The twentieth–century British public demonstrated a fundamental dislike of homosexuality when polled until relatively late. 8 This attitude has undergone a dramatic reversal over the last fifteen years, marked by David Cameron's apology for the act in 201X. 9 10 It is also worth noting that structural initiatives in historiography did not exist as mainstays of public history until recently. For example, LGBT History Month only emerged in 1994, mostly as the result of American activism in academia. Amidst a more general liberal malaise over historical and current homophobia, it can be seen that the current promotion of Turing is, in part, a politicised attempt to atone for what is now mostly seen as an embarrassing, cruel mistake. Divorced from disapproval of his personal life, security concerns have been an extremely negative factor in blocking promotion of Turing. This can be demonstrated through both the evidence above and the comparable fortunes of his collages. It took until 19XX for Dilly Knox to receive his first biographical volume, in which X marketed him as yet another "forgotten hero".11 Similarly, the first documentary to argue that Gordon Welchman was unfairly overlooked as a heroic mathematician due to the NSA and Margaret Thatcher only aired in September 2015. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 17. The Movie ' Departures From The Historical Record Davis claims that her work is more historical than the movie because the film–maker's "departures from the historical record." (Benson 57). That is, Vigne's work lacks from historical understanding because he divires from the right direction due to several reasons including but not restricted to ignoring the Basque region, neglecting religious issues, and disregarding complicity of Bertrande except in the last invented scene when she gave water to judge, and she confessed to him. More importantly, the trial would have been confidential not open to public. In addition, the movie characterized with the complicity and vagueness, which made it hard to interpret. As reported by Davis, the film's main problem lies in its failure to capture the... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Basically, the film is there to make money, so the producers have to make it accessible to as many people as possible. Undoubtedly, the film producers make their finishing touch in order to make it appeal to the audiences. They added some changes, such as using wrong color robes for the judges of the Parlement of Toulouse as well as omitting vital information, which affects the original story by intention or chance in make it an artistic touch rather than historical touch. It seems to me that Davis's book is more historical than the movie because she provides a detailed description of the life of rural families during that time, and the journey of Martin's family from the Basque region to the Artigat because of political and economic reasons. She goes more and demonstrates the social circumstances of the French peasantry in the sixteenth century. At any rate, Davis 's account of both the trial and village life in Artigat is more historically accurate than the movie. Davis brings the story to life as a historical achievement. That is why Davis writes her book specifically to address the shortage in the film and to "follow the historical evidence closely." It is unquestionable that historians tend to be skeptical about their sources; it is the nature of any historical work, when they address basic facts that happened in the past. Obviously enough, in the most cases, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 18. The Lecture At The Angelica Library The Opportunity in Lecturing Things to Take From my Latest Historical Lecture at the Angelica Library On August 18th, 2016, I had presented a historical lecture on the Abolitionist History of Allegany County, at the Angelica Library. A number of times over the years I have given presentations and lectures at my local library, for the sake of helping to spread ideas and information to others, developing my skills, and other such purposes. I believe there is some use in reporting and reflecting upon it, and that there can be some things to take away from it. As part of my activities for during the summer break, I had figured I would give another historical lecture at the Angelica Library. I figured that it would be a useful continuity with some of the historical work that I have been doing. In the preceding semester I had written a paper on the abolitionist history of Allegany County for a class in American Slavery. Following this, I had uncovered some further information on aspects of the subject. When it came time for submissions to the annual Phi Alpha Theta regional history conference, I had decided to write another paper on the subject incorporating this additional information. I had presented this paper at the conference at Ithaca College during my speaking section. From that point I had also gained some other interesting bits of information to add on my knowledge on the matter. For instance, during another section of the conference I had listened to the presentation ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 19. Historiography During The Cold War What is Historiography? The study and analysis of historical writings, the method of analyzing a historical period based on the perspectives of historians to the event. What is "critical analysis" in history writing? To critically analyze an event one must read about all aspects of a historical event in order to fully understand that historical era. This is done by examining several primary source documents, as well as the perspectives of several historians. This way we are able to break down a historical time and fully understand its success and failures. For example: Reconstruction is the most controversial point in U.S. history in regards to its successes as well as its effect on the course of the country. Historians of the 1900's like ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Using military strategies, political doctrines, and economic aid, the United States was able to prevent the smaller countries from falling to into the grasp of communism. brinkmanship: the practice of pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome. In the Cold War, the arms race and the space race where important aspects of brinkmanship. Truman doctrine: established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces, this was a part of the containment policy of the U.S. to stop Greece and Turkey from being taken over by the Nazis. Marshall plan: an American initiative to aid Europe, the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 20. The History of Those Without Wealth or Education Essay History has been traditionally told from the point of view of those with wealth and education. But to truly understand history one must understand the history of the people who were not writing the history which includes the nation's minorities, working class and those without a high level of education. Society is made up of a variety of people and history is not complete without telling all of their stories. History was traditionally written by a select number of people. This leads to a biased view of history because the educated could not experience every part of society. One example is American slavery where many of the black slaves were not formally educated so they were not able to tell their stories. At first the educated white ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... For example Providential history was written by governors and puritans to justify the ways of God. Rationalists were usually wealthy and classically educated men with vast private resources who wrote history for leisure or to educate others with their success. Professional historians were college educated and wrote history for a living. A branch of Professional history, new social history focused on the retelling of history which culminated in the last 40 years. In these past 4 decades history was rewritten to include women and minorities. As they rose in power and influence they began to involve themselves in the writing of history. The untold stories of the important events in American history such as the civil rights movement were now told from a different point of view. History cannot be complete without including all information. If the government decided to eradicate events that made the nation look bad then history will make no sense. This is happening in the textbooks of Shanghai. The textbooks now include no information on wars dynasties and communist revolutions. Even chairman Mao, one of China's most significant historical figures is excluded. China prefers to focus on the future rather than its past. The new textbooks de–emphasize the history of the peasants and workers and create an image of a China that cared more about technology and trade.2 Reading through one of these textbooks, one can sense that content is missing. This is a clear of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 21. The Historiography Of Genevieve Most of what we know of Genevieve comes from her hagiography. Although this is resourceful, it leaves us with limited historical documentation beyond the miracles and saintly duties she performed. What we do know is that Genevieve was born during or shortly after the year 420 in Nanterre, which is near Paris. Her parents, Severus (of Frankish origins) and Gerontia (of Germanic–Roman origins) were both peasants within the community. When Saint Germanus traveled through Nanterre on his way to Britain, he encountered Genevieve. It is told that Genevieve desired to dedicate her life to Christianity, but historical documentation notes that Saint Germanus prophesied Genevieve's miracle abilities and persuaded her to become consecrated. Upon the death of her parents, she moved... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Genevieve prophesied that if people fled the city, they would be ravaged and murdered. Instead, she encouraged all matrons to pray with her while their husbands fought. This again enraged the Parisian leaders, but Saint Germanus interceded by offering up consecrated Eucharistic loaves. After the siege of Paris, Genevieve continued performing miracles and also exorcisms. In 480, Paris was besieged by the Franks. Genevieve bravely led her matrons with a fleet of boats on the Seine River to supply trapped citizens with grain and nourishment. Genevieve died around the year 500 at the age of 82. During her lifetime, she was known as caretaker for the poor and sick. This role is similar to other saints of her times. After her death, her hagiography praises her miracle abilities since the shrine of her burial becomes a site for miracles of healings. Genevieve was soon sainted as the protector of Paris and her name is continually invoked to this day as a provider of healing and guardianship. Author Lisa Bitel notes how the work of Genevieve helped build Christianity within barbarian Europe by way of her famed public miracles and continual ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 22. Analysis Of Natalie Zemon-Davis's The Return Of Martin Guerre Natalie Zemon–Davis's 1983 book The Return of Martin Guerre provided both the public and academic world with a fresh and interesting take on a classic story. Presented like a mystery thriller, Davis weaves a tale of deception based on a solid framework of cultural history. Her narrative depends on grounding the characters of Bertrande de Rols, Martin Guerre, Arnaud du Tihl, and their associates within a web of social context. Davis draws heavily on the traditional Coras narrative, but also supplements the established story with the version presented in Le Sueur, a new source she discovered. Additionally, she incorporates unusual sources dealing with broader social context and infers specifics from a general study of period interactions. It is this latter approach that historian Robert Finlay disagrees with. He claims that Davis does not appropriately rely on the source material provided by the Coras narrative and thus gives an unnecessarily dramatic version of events. The AHR forum on the subject includes both Finlay's review and Davis's response, providing a model of scholarly debate that extends beyond the actual content of the book in question. In addition to being a rhetorical critique, Finlay is attacking the foundational methodology of modern social history that Davis is then compelled to defend. According to Robert Finlay, Zemon–Davis provides an overly romanticized version of the narrative that deviates too heavily from the source material. While he qualifies his ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 23. Kenya 's Independence From The British Empire The Pipeline In the years leading up to Kenya's independence from the British Empire, a violent uprising later known as Mau Mau plagued the colony. From1952 to 1960, African forest fighters waged a war against the British who had little experience fighting against guerilla warfare. In an effort to bring the crime wave, as the British called it, to an end, colonial officials housed those who they believed to be working for or in collaboration with the Mau Mau fighters in detention camps. The Kikuyu, Kenya's largest ethnic group, were those who were primarily targeted by the British. This is due to the fact that the majority of Mau Mau fighters were members of that tribal/ethnic group. After several years and many reports of brutality and massacres within the detention camps, members of the British population began to call for an end to the camps and an end to colonialism. How were the British Empire and its allies able to justify such a horrific counterinsurgency program, especially so soon after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps? Historiography Perhaps the two most notorious modern historians who have published comprehensive secondary sources regarding Mau Mau are Caroline Elkins and David Anderson. Each has published a book about the rebellion and each book will be vital to my research regarding the Pipeline. Elkins' book, Britain's Gulag in Kenya, goes into great detail about the Pipeline; she heavily critiques' the British and portrays Mau Mau as a race war. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 24. Silk Roads Or Steppe Roads In World History, By David... David Christian proved his passion for digging deeper into history through use of writing the article "Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History," published in the eleventh edition of the Journal of World History, in the spring of 2000 by the University of Hawaii Press. Christian points out that trans–ecological exchanges are not fully appreciated and recognized in conventional historiography about the Silk Roads; he believes they should be–since they play an important role in the expansion of the roads in the North and were apart of the flourishing of the Silk Roads. In David's article, he recognizes different interpretations of the Silk Roads throughout different regions and time periods and relies on a plethora of sources to do. Christian recognizes that the Silk Roads are ingrained into historiography of China, the Mediterranean world, inner and central Asia, and also play a vital role as "links between different regions of the Afro–Eurasian landmass." As mentioned previously, this article observes that historiography focuses on the trade between trans–civilizational societies and credits them as important to expansion and success of empires and trans–civilizational regions. In later centuries, the historiography describes the flux and flow of the Silk Roads' flourishing. Through the use of sources, Christian describes these successes to have been at peak from 100 CE to the first, second and third centuries. The Golden Era was claimed to have ended after the Mongol period, due to being out shadowed by other trade routes and sea routes. However, the article acknowledged that trans–Asian trade and travel later resumed, but the Silk Roads would never return to their original flourishing state. Different interpretations of the Silk Roads continued throughout Christian's article. Conventional historiography in the classical era depicts that the birth of the Silk Roads dates "from the opening of the state–sponsored trade between China and Central Asia at the end of the second century BCE." However, David argues that Eurasian steppeland had "vigorous systems of trans–Eurasian exchanges" before then. Leaders in that time basically got handed pre–established trade systems and routes. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 25. Gender And Sexuality As A Category For Historical Analysis For years, many scholars have provided many discussions over the topic of gender and sexuality. However, one needs to ask themselves: Are these two topics, gender and sexuality, useful as a category for historical analysis? The articles written by both Joan W. Scott and Afsaneh Najmabadi, answer such a question. By critically examining and assessing their two article, can the usefulness of gender and sexuality as a category for historical analysis be proven. In "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," Joan W. Scott provides many angles to explore the relevancy of gender. The first thing that needs to be examined is her argument. The main argument that Joan W. Scott is trying to make is how beneficial to history using gender as a category for analysis would turn out. Another factor that needs to be made in assessing her article is how she presents her argument and findings. Scott formats her article with a beginning, middle, and end. She begins by defining "gender," and how that term has been used in general. She goes on to describe some of the theories that have analyzed gender. The next part that she explains is how, of late, politics has been coincided with the analysis of gender. Finally, she ends her paper by providing her bottom–line opinion about the analysis and approach of gender. Now with the structure of her paper in mind, the next important assessment is in the sources she uses. The sources that Joan Scott utilizes in her argument are mostly ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 26. Essay On Indian Historiography How the Indian historiography has evolved from precolonial to post–colonial period? Over the three millenniums, India has developed opulent and complex layers of culture, since geographically India lies at crossroads of trading routes. From ancient times, people from diverse background and ethnicity came into India as traders and invaders via land as well as sea routes. They settled down here and, over the time, India assimilated them in its cultural and social mosaic. Also, India remained a home of host of empires and kingdoms with each having a peculiar history. Pre–colonial empires and kingships had history but it would be told orally and would occasionally be chronicled. It were the Europeans particularly the British armed with documentation and statistical knowledge who introduced a systematic chronology of the Indian history upon seizing India. The modern Indian historiography was ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... . As Jalal and Bose have argued that "the cracking and crumbling of the modern nation–state system, the disintegration of the socialist alternative, the disillusionment with the false promises of capitalism, and the resurgence of redefined social identities thought to have been obliterated by the steam–roller of modernization have all rendered interpretations of the modern era in South Asian and world history much more complex. Recent themes in South Asian historiography have been the role of intermediate social groups in the construction of the British raj and that of 'subaltern' social groups in anti–colonial resistance; the part played by the colonial state in the reinvention of communal and caste categories; the refashioning of social relations of class by the linking of Indian economic regions to wider capitalist systems; and the impact of the interplay between national, communal and regional levels of politics on the process of ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 27. Essay on The Subaltern Turn: Rereading Grirish Karnad’s... "As we grow older as a race, we grow aware that history is written, that it is a kind of literature without morality. That in its actuaries the ego of the race is indissoluble and that everything depends on whether we write this fiction through the memory of hero or of victim."Derek Walcot (The Postcolonial Studies Reader 371) After Edward Said's Orientalism (1978); a new milestone in the history of literacy criticism that heralded the postcolonial school of criticism many revisionist approaches emanated to question the self proclaimed 'truths' and 'facts' and the story behind the histories with an aim to discover the other side of the coin. The Subaltern Studies Group founded in 1982 is another name of such emerging schools which seeks ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The only group Gramsci had in mind at that time was the workers and peasants who were oppressed and discriminated by the leader of National Fascist Party, Benito Mussolini and his agents. Gramsci's deeply formulated ideas about the class of peasants as a social, cultural and political force aware of its distinct consciousness of subalternity made other subsequent 20th Century South Asian scholars working on the issues of Indian peasantry historiography resume his effort. This school led by Ranajit Guha came to be known as the Subaltern Studies Group or Subaltern Studies Collective which comprised a number of other South Asian historians, social critics and scholars like Shahid Amin, Dipesh Chakraborty, David Arnold, Partha Chatterjee, David Hardiman, Gyanendra Pandey and Sumit Sarkar . Gramsci's ideas were further more developed by Ranajit Guha in his manifesto The Subaltern Studies I and his famous treatise The ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 28. Suggestions For Apsi From Billie Jean Clemens Suggestions for APSI from Billie Jean Clemens 1.A misunderstanding still exists as to the approach of the redesign. What does it mean to teach history in the digital age where students have access to facts at the swipe of a finger? Teachers need to understand that the redesign represents a paradigm shift in the way history is taught, no longer does one need to cover it all at breakneck speed and hope something sticks. However, how does one teach a conceptual approach to history that emphasizes the application of historical thinking skills while still holding students accountable for a core of knowledge? The workshops, through collaborative conversations and the development of quality lesson plans, need to educate teachers as to what this really looks like in the classroom. 2.Above all, the workshops need to emphasize the crucial role of historical thinking skills; how one would teach those skills; AND, how those skills are assessed on the test. While the new Curriculum Framework has done a nice job of explaining these skills, teachers need explicit instruction on how the skills are assessed on the exam. For example, in the CF, neither the description nor the proficient expectations explain that in a periodization essay students must explain how the period was different AND similar to the developments that preceded and/or followed. Even though this is clearly stated on the rubrics for the exam, a teacher new to the course would have to realize that both ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 29. The Contrasting Roles of Historians and Scientists Essay Historians utilize primary sources to reconstruct events that have previously occurred in order to create a clearer image of the past. In opposition, human scientists investigate varying aspects of human activity to reveal discoveries that are meant to bring significant changes to the future. This is presented in the assertion that "The historian's task is to understand the past; the human scientist, by contrast, is looking to change the future." This appears to be false considering that both the historian and the human scientist require a satisfactory comprehension of past events, as their roles necessitate a desire to change the future. The respective areas of knowledge of the historian and human scientist express this through the lens ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The false assertion claims that historians solely work to determine an understanding of the past. The historian's role is defined with a dictation of understanding the past; however their study of the past is through today's lens. Thus, they are writing in hindsight. A knowledge issue is present with the "fallible" eyewitnesses in primary sources which cannot be entirely accepted as the truth due to flexible interpretations. History, a reconstruction of events, is viewed from a modern standpoint allowing the historian to produce secondary sources using primary sources as a basis. These sources suggest that those who control the past also control the future expressing the need for historians to look at evidence in terms of the future. Furthermore, historical interpretations are inevitably bonded with a sense of personal value as historians fail to simply regurgitate prior knowledgebut rather use it as a creative endeavor combining evidence with imagination. This leads to the derivation of a unique conclusion in retelling events of the past. Although, it can be argued that the historian's purpose is to eliminate issues such as bias and empathy. However, this proves to be impossible as they inevitably include a sense of empiricism. Trends of the past are evident in history. History is not necessarily proven to repeat itself yet a considerable amount of information suggests this. This information can be analyzed in ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 30. The Partition Of Indi A New Understanding Of Partition In 1947, the partition of India on the departure of British colonial power laid the seed for widespread bloodshed, Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin pioneer a new understanding of partition through the voices of affected women for the first time, whose stories were buried under the dust of time and the blankets of the patriarch. Authors, Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin both have strong roots in women's studies. Menon as an independent scholar and publisher focused on violence against women, and Bhasin for her work with South Asian women's movements for the United Nations. As feminist scholars and activists, Menon and Bhasin's Borders and Boundaries expands from their previous scholarly publications. Menon and Bhasin argue the importance of a feminist approach to studying India's partition against the backdrop of an overwhelming wealth of political and communal histories, the gruesome reality that Partition was distant from the smooth process written on paper. They also argue the objectification of women, whose bodies became symbolic territories to 'claimed, conquered and marked, as "women became the respective countries, indelibly imprinted by the other." Encapsulating feminist history, Menon and Bhasin chronologically ordered their argument, outlining the phases of partition from a woman's perspective. The first chapter, speaking for themselves, addresses the challenges faced in the research phase of the book and the historiographical importance for giving silenced partitioned ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 31. Historiography The Natural Historiography Historiography is a historical film theory that focuses on the assumptions, principles, and methodologies of historical study (Giannetti, 528). Giannetti divides this theoretical study into four different types of film history: aesthetic, technological, economic, and social. According to American scholar, Raymond Fielding, "the history of motion pictures–as an art form, as a medium of communication, and as an industry–has been determined principally by technological innovations" (Giannetti, 531). With time comes much technological advancement that will allow filmmakers to accurately portray what they want and give the audiences the intended experience. Technological advancements have aided in the production of The Rookie and The Natural in the sense that both films could be shown through a multitude of decadal lenses. Both films show the main characters in their childhood and how that has shaped who they are, but it also shows them in adulthood as well. The changes in time range from ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... While The Natural contains many attributes from each perspective, the analysis can best be related to structuralism and semiology. Joseph Campbell mentions a good point while discussing the function of mythology by saying that, "one of the functions of mythology is to guide human spirit by providing common or universal symbols that offset that darker nature of humans" (Wood & Pincus, 22). The Natural most certainly follows this function with the underlying network of symbolic meaning along with its many symbols. Each of the metaphors discussed by Wood and Pincus can relate to the points previously mentioned in the structuralism/semiology section and their analysis includes some aspects not previously noted that would further contribute to the underlying structure, such as the 'universal ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 32. How Have New Emphases And Interpretative Lenses Is History How have new emphases and interpretative lenses emphasizing history from below affected the more traditional subfields of political, military, diplomatic, and sectional history and how do they affect world history. During the past century these four subfields have evolved within themselves to rise from their traditional methodologies of study to incorporating social and cultural historiography to better analyze their subject matter; while turning from an inner study, as it applies to the United States, towards a more world view. The authors of this week's reading project's a theme or commonality that has affected their subfield from the turn of the century until now. They all mention Frederick Jackson Turner's reading of his famous paper, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," where he "argued that frontier settlement, and not institutional and spiritual inheritance from the Old World, accounted for the origins and peculiar development of American democracy." This was the first time interpretations of social and cultural were utilized in the studies of particular subfields that started the Progressive era that lasted until the start of World War II. During this period studies were from the "bottom–up" versus the old "top–to–bottom" approach; going from the great men and great events, to the study of the ordinary people and incorporating previously neglected groups like women and black. Following the war the counter–Progressive or consensus ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 33. The Controversy Of Historiography Historiography is the methodically of which history is written. There has been some controversy regarding the way historians portray women over the years, mainly because women tend to be unrepresented. Their importance is not stressed enough, historian devote little attention to class issues that seriously affected black women. Even when history is focused on African American studies, there is more of an emphasis on the black men, as opposed to black women. From the beginning, European whites have created an image of woman has unworthy and undeserving. In a world where status is heavily based on race and gender, woman already had two strikes against them: they are black and non–male. During the colonial days in The United States, only white ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 34. The Pervasiveness Of Media In Contemporary US Culture Indeed, the pervasiveness of media in its copious forms in contemporary US culture today is undeniable. Almost anywhere one looks, one can find media; a magazine at a doctor's office, a billboard alongside a freeway, a painting at an art gallery, a performance on television or on stage. Media, undeniably, is ubiquitous. However, in the innumerous forms media comes to us in, every one of these forms are created for a purpose; to communicate of an idea or message. But how are students, as well as educators, supposed to interact and interpret media? Auspiciously, just as with any subject of study, one must become literate in its forms and uses. Thus, media literacy is a vital tool set for interacting and interpreting content of any discipline; particularly history education. Certainly, media literacy seeks to teach fluency in the forms of media, how it functions and can influence trends in society. However, media and its messages are not a direct form of communication. "Media does not offer a transparent window, as Buckingham writes, 'only a representation' of an idea (Buckingham, 2004. p. .) Further, this 'representation' of an idea or message, as Hoechsmann & Poyntz write, always "involve(s) a reflection, selection and deflection of reality" (Hoechsmann & Poyntz, 2012, p. 73). Thus, to achieve fluency with media, the goal of media literacy is to develop personal agency within an individual. Personal agency, as defined by Buckingham, is the ability to be an active ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 35. Historiography Of The British Empire Any historiography of The British Raj must first start with the understanding that The British Raj fits within the broader historic concept of The British Empire. In the late 19th Century, many historians proposed that the history of The British Empire could be broken down into The First British Empire and The Second British Empire. The British Raj falls within the category of The Second British Empire within this view. The previous British involvement in India, via The East India Company, would largely fall within First British Empire. The opinions of historians, not any official decree by British law or authorities, are the basis for the concept of multiple periods of The British Empire. There was never an official start, or end date, for either period of empire. The British Empire was never an official entity, as in there was not a document or constitution dictating how it was administered. As a result, the colonial administrations varied depending on the colony to which they belonged. The views on The British Empire, during its height, were not a single monolithic view shared by all British citizens, but varied across the full spectrum from unwavering support to strong opposition. Joseph Chamberlain's 1897 book The True Conception of Empire provides an excellent quote that sums up a common mindset of the era. "We feel now that our rule over these territories can only be justified if we can show that it adds to the happiness and prosperity of the people, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 36. The Social History Of Medicine Earlier issues of SHM include articles that are profoundly insistent upon the importance of 'history from below' in developing and constituting understandings of health and medicine. As these articles were primarily structured and written during the cultural and linguistic turn in historical analysis it is clear that they present arguments that aim to revise modernist approaches to the social history of medicine. Most of which are interested in the history of published medical texts or the views of the medical elite. The article by Liora Navon, 'Beggars, Metaphors, and Stigma: A Missing Link in the Social History of Leprosy' outlines the need for the adoption of a 'history from below' perspective in addressing understandings of leprosy in Thailand. Her article states that 'the interviews conducted for this study with patients diagnosed before the 1950s and their offspring reveal that, unlike their portrayal in archival sources, manifestations of extremely negative or positive attitudes were quite rare.' Similarly Peter Elmer's review of Medicine and the Market in England and Its Colonies, c.1450–c. 1850, by Mark S. R. Jenner and Patrick Wallis argues that their work attributes a link between the creation of a medical marketplace with a 'reorientation towards the role of the patient in medical transactions'. Found even within the title of the article 'Speed in the Third Reich: Metamphetamine (Pervitin) Use and a Drug History From Below' by Stephen Snelders and Toine Pieters, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 37. Historiography Of Karnataka A much early historiography of Karnataka by Aluru Venkatarao also delineates on similar lines identifying the juncture of Battle of Talikota in 1565 as the time of decline of glory of Karnataka. In his 1917 work titled Karnataka Gatha Vaibhava , Aluru Venkata Rao writes thus: Having flourished for 230 years this glorious kingdom disappeared in half a minute by accident. It dies. That was the end of Karnataka's glory. The kumkum was wiped off Karnatakadevi's forehead! The mangalsutra round her neck was cut! Karnataka's wealth was destroyed Karnataka's intellectual wealth disappeared. The sun of Karnataka's valour set. To summarise: since that day, we people of Karnataka have become an empty name in history. Oh, ye of Karnataka, has the time still not arrived for a recovery of past glories? Think about it. (71) For Aluru Venkata Rao, the glory of Karnataka has flourished for about 230 years, while the 1947 historiography of Karnataka takes it much farther back in time. However, a significant aspect to be noticed in the above quoted excerpt is the metaphorical manner in which the land Karnataka is sketched in the image of a goddess. The appropriation of Karnataka in the image of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Shilpa Phadke, speaking in general about the Women's movement in India points to the fact that: The movement in the late 1970s constructed itself as secular but did not make any effort to define its identity as such. It was assumed that affiliations with the women's movement were based on gender and positions of difference were articulately largely on grounds of class rather than caste or religious community. Class was constructed as a modern identity unlike caste or religious community, which were seen as pre–modern identities to be transcended. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 38. Historiography Of The 1940s The collapse of the military junta signified the decline of the traditional interpretative schemes and frameworks for the 1940s that dominated the domestic historiography for over thirty years. This traditional approach is encapsulated in the theory of the 'three rounds' of the quasi–deliberate communist attempt to seize power by force of arms in 1943–1944, in December 1944 and in 1946–1949. The decade of the 1970s saw the emergence of a young generation of scholars who introduced a revisionist school of thought and marked a paradigm shift in the academic discourse on the 1940s. This generation, which continued to dominate the historiography of the 1940s until the end of the cold–war period, questioned many of the traditional interpretations ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
  • 39. Browning Primary Sources Historians believe they need to find the truth. They make arguments, write papers, and give lecture on what they are saying is the truth. Historians want to learn what happened. This is important, because history teaches many lessons. Students of history agree or disagree with historian's arguments and what they say happened or what is the cause of some event. The best historians are the ones who write the strongest arguments. To make strong arguments, it's very important to use strong sources. Sources are either primary or secondary. The primary sources are the original ones, which date back to the events of that time period. Secondary sources are the arguments of other historians or anything that talks about primary sources. Choosing the best sources means understanding what the source is saying and using accurate information to make your own argument. When historians feel that the existing work fails to mention or inaccurately claims something that's important. to the historian, they write their own argument. The historian wants to write a better argument, which other historians and students will regard ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Therefore, he was not old enough to experience the Holocaust and World War II, like Bauer. He was still a baby. Browning's experience is good because he's not especially emotionally connected to the Holocaust. He published his most popular book, Ordinary Men, in 1992. This is also much later than the other two writers. Browning had the benefit of Dawidowicz, Bauer, and other historians work, like future historians will benefit from his. Browning is a functionalist, and he does not believe that the Holocaust was strictly Hitler's intent all along. The thesis of Browning's book is that the Holocaust was caused by many factors, and the anti–Semitism began on a smaller scale as Hitler tried to kick the Jewish people out of Germany, which eventually spiraled into deciding to commit crazy mass murder. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...