European History

Snake Warriors analysed Carib warfare, uses historical texts’ to interpret Carib war culture and society anthropologically. He does this by first, describing Carib military tactics prior to European contact, discussing social and ideological context they were deployed, and also to analyze the effect European contact had on the military aspects of Carib society. Whitehead placed great emphasis on discussing the ritualistic and spiritual nature of Carib cannibalism. Particularly when discussing…

To understand what exactly led to the eventual fighting between the Native Americans and European settlers, one must first learn the cultural differences between them. While, some Native American’s learned to “coexist” with new foreign settlers trading and interacting with them, other natives did not like these invaders and were eventually destroyed, usually by force. These new Europeans tried to bring their new way of life to the natives while these people just wanted to maintain their…

We all love American history but history class is the most hated subject taught in school. “Just memorize the notes, and you’ll be fine on the test,” said every history teacher I have ever had in my schooling. What do we really learn and reflect on from history class? Is it the teacher who can not teach or is the textbook that makes it boring? In “Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James Loewen, he criticizes how textbooks distort American History in a way that corresponds with the mindset of rich…

specific subsections. Not so with Guns, Germs, and Steel, a big history with one specific goal, to answer the question of why some societies dominated others in modern history. Wasting no time in stating his focus, Jared Diamond declares that “This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years.”(Diamond, 9) Arguing against any lingering theories of racist genetic inequality, Diamond purposes that history played out along the course it did…

The assigned book for this course is entitled “We the People: A Brief American History,” by Peter N. Carroll. In his book, Carroll gives a voice to women, minorities, and ordinary people, while allowing place for comparisons among different groups by unfolding problems and subject matter that affected each of them relative to U.S. history (Carroll XXI). The assignment for this week was to read chapters 1and 2. This paper will summarize some of what the author discussed in great detail in…

The history of mankind has always been the history of imperialism in myriad of its forms. In this context it must be said that the history of the modern world, to a large extent, is a history of European/Western expansion, colonization, and its decline. It is noteworthy that the expansionist policies that were implemented by the colonial powers eventually paved the way for the emergence of globalization and the decline of the process of colonialism made it possible for the emergence of…

of share values, expectations, and structures that composed European international society. Watson examines the expansion of the international society in four steps. Part I chronicles the initial expansion of European society beginning around…

Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen, many different important points are made about how the history textbook industry is corrupt, telling lies, or not telling the whole truth to the young readers. This should be very evident to most people, since textbooks spanning from elementary to high school often tell different pieces of information, and sometimes, complete opposite of those pieces of information. For years, history textbooks have been corrupted by the economically elite, and “teach” children…

The history of the Americas continent is pretty much alike, due to the late discovery of the land by numerous mainly European explorers. The establishment of United States is closely related to the settlement of English and also Spanish settler. Similarly, the history of the country right above America, which is Canada also related to England as well as France. The book I will be comparing with Loewen’s is Canada Revisited by Clark and McKay. Canada, now known as a multicultural and bilingual…

immense African developments that crossed both the African mainland and quite a bit of South East Asia, was not the primary nor would it be the last perception by voyagers and history specialists alike, of the dark civic establishments in South East Asia. Landing in a few waves amid the sixteenth century, numerous European travelers composed and wondered about the developments they had experienced. In any case,…