Historian

The underlying aim of the majority of Marxist historians was to enhance the autonomy of working-class individuals by expanding the scope of collective responsibility and ensuring possibilities for individual growth and creativity with their ideological framework. They wanted to get rid of the whole idea of separate classes, and instead, create one unanimous category for everyone to fall under. In order to achieve this, Marxist historians created mass propaganda advertising their agenda to…

historiography. It also discusses the views held by three prominent historians, i.e., E.H. Carr, Marc Bloch, and R.G. Collingwood on this topic. One of the long standing and important issues in the philosophy of history is the permissibility or desirability of moral judgments. Historians in our own time continue to be wary of rendering explicit moral pronouncements, thinking it a derogation of their obligations. On occasion, some historians have been moved to embrace the opposite attitude,…

It has been remained one of the major and important concept in history or historical research and there is always being a conflict among the philosophers and the historians since before few decades. Such type of discussion and variance of opinions lead to the division between the traditional historians and the post-modernist historians. Both subjectivity and objectivity are the two component of history or ideas of historical research which deal with the validity of the historical knowledge. That…

account the events that occurred within this war. I feel this point of view is much different from other ancient historians. I feel that the very people in whom Josephus criticizes could in fact be Plutarch and Arrian. Plutarch was an ancient historian who recounted the life of Alexander. Plutarch primarily focused on the virtue of Alexander. For example, Plutarch felt that other historians regarded Alexander as an angry, power thirsty individual. Plutarch, however, did not feel this was…

Rapprochement. For the next part of the essay, I will focus on the how various historians’ viewed the significance of Nixon’s speech and his trip. The orthodox historical analyst of the announcement was that it marked the end of the hostile relationship between the most powerful nation and the most populous nation, and marked the beginning of an era of cooperation between the two great nations. While other historians challenge this interpretation of the level of cooperation between China and…

research at the American Historical Association, historians are researchers who develop a sense of the standard opinions on a particular historical subject by reading other historians’ work on the subject, then use source materials, where they get their support and evidence from, to build new interpretations or follow new insights. Their findings are then put together in books, articles, websites, reports or museum scripts. Throughout their careers, historians are likely to come to face many…

through the historiography of the historians. The thesis is direct and to the point, though it seems to be overreaching. Even though the four thesis questions are closely linked with the historians take on the Ming culture, it is the question about Chinese military tradition during the Ming dynasty, “What place does Chinese military traditions hold in the Ming dynasty and their decisions in both government and cultural decisions,” that offers no relationship with historians or historiography in…

History is the past analyzed and recorded, it is not everything that ever happened or everything that historians have already written about. While the existence of subjectivity in history is not often questioned many philosophers have rejected the possibility of objective historical knowledge. This essay seeks to explain the ways in which history consists of both elements of objectivity and subjectivity. Objectivity refer to the lack of bias. With this being said there is no objective truth…

Amber Ramos History 1000C Prof. Wang 5 December 2015 The Landscape of History How Historians Map The Past The novel The Landscape of History How Historians Map The Past by John Lewis Gaddis touches on subjects such as the idea of history and how historians assume things and about what’s to come in the future. He describes how the only reason that we know things about the future is because of learning from the past historical events. He describes the fact that we can only learn from the…

he invaded Poland? On the morning of September 1, 1939 the decision was made to invade Poland. The German army attacked Poland. We now know today that this was the beginning of the Second World War. Today there is a lot historians know about what happened but, one thing historians have not come across the answer to and continue to debate about, Did Hitler intend to start the second world war when invading Poland? This is a complicated debate. One reason this is complicated is because we have no…