Historiography

review of the author’s analysis and evaluation in the field of historiography. The second section will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the paper. Finally, the writing mechanics will be covered in the third section of the review. Six key questions from the rubric will be a guideline of this review. Tanner Van Nest attempts to answer four large questions about the historian’s perspective of Ming culture through the historiography of the historians. The thesis is direct and to the point,…

A Concise Biography of Eli Whitney “Eli Whitney was born on the 8th of December, 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts to Eli and Elizabeth Whitney. Though he grew up on a farm with his two brothers and one sister, though he grew up on a farm, but he was more inclined towards machinery and technology from an early age. Eli once dismantled his father's valuable watch in an inquisitive attempt to know how it worked”. He became a skilled at making nails from a device of his during the revolutionary…

later, Sandra (2013) Sex and Sin: The Historiography of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Colonial Massachusetts The purpose of this article was to go in depth about what it was like in Colonial Massachusetts. One of the most important things is how everything starts and without a base, you have nothing. When starting a colony, you must have people and to have people you have to have marriage, sexuality, and family. Back in Colonial America sex without marriage was a forbidden thing, but sex…

Sidney Bradshaw Fay and Fritz Fischer both wrote about the origin of World War One in a time of German historiography controversy. Both of these men took the same event and analyzed it to come to different conclusions. Both men, though very similar in their amount of research and thought process, looked through different lenses at the same problem. Fritz Fischer was a native German, but he believed World War One was completely caused by Imperial Germany. By his thinking, because of their…

since it corresponds with the author´s view on histography as a dialogue between past and present. She remains a historiographer in the way Munro understands historiography: “Their words and my words, a curious re-creation of lives, in a given setting that was truthful as our notion of past can ever be (II).” Accordingly, a veracious historiography requires that the readers hear not only the author´s living but also the past. Seeing thus, the insertion of fairy-tales also does not necessarily…

Psychology is discipline full of creation myths and opposing points of view. The history of psychology itself, as well the historiographies of the sub-disciplines within the field vary as they are told from multiple perspectives. Origin stories often reflect certain ideologies and dispositions, however; because of this, the truth of the history is often manipulated or misrepresented by the frameworks used to better illustrate certain movements. Psychology was historically understood as the study…

Bharati is practicing historiography, what Benjamin regards as, from the margins. It could be argued that Bharati regards the events of Mahabharata as the source events and demonstrates the historiography from the margins by reworking the events in his play. The addition of such marginal characters serves his purpose well. This could also be interpreted as Bharati’s critique of history of war. Only those in authority or the hegemonic class is mentioned in the historiography of such events, and…

In “Marxism and History” by Christopher Hill, Hill begins his article with the assertion that Marxism has influenced history more than any other branch of knowledge. Hill offers six points to describe how the ideas of Marx have transformed history and historians in the (then) 100 years since the creation of The Communist Manifesto. By analyzing these six points laid out by Hill, one can come to understand Marx’s legacy for historically understanding social class and economy. First and foremost,…

OPPORTUNSIM Topic Sentence: The initial consolidation of the Nazi state relied largely on opportunism and the party’s corresponding ability to exploit inadvertent events, manifested through use of Reichstag fire used to undermine political parties. Historiography: Allan Bullock; “Without any axe to grind or case to argue…. an entirely unprincipled opportunist” . William Shier; “Hitler had lost no time in exploiting the Reichstag fire to the limit…” . Linking Sentence: Thus, Hitler and the…

time periods, political institutions with regard to political power have greatly affected the ways in which history has been interpreted. The rise of the nation-state as a political entity during the late 18th- 19th centuries had greatly altered historiography, for, with history emerging as a modern discipline, history began to mirror the ideals of, and acts as a font of, the polities of the time periods during which it was written. In both historian Thomas Babington Macaulay’s “Minute on Indian…