Historiography

Historiographies: Imperialist/Colonial historiography, with an aim of justifying the empire, Nationalist historiography that lamented the decline of the 18th century and colonization, Aligarh School of historiography leaning towards the left and focusing on a structural analysis rather than a personality based one and finally new historiography emerging in 1980’s. Two major shifts can be noted in the different analyses:…

emblematic of Ellison's critique: real progress trails far behind the historical narrative that proclaims it. 3.3 The Legchain(s) Invisible Man's most evocative historical object combines both the power of dominant historiography and its injustice to demonstrate the danger that distorted historiography poses to progress. The legchain motif first surfaces in Bledsoe's office when the protagonist sees Bledsoe “[reach] for [...] an old leg shackle from slavery which he proudly called a 'symbol of…

The articles in question Enver M. Casimir’s “Contours of Transnational Contact: Kid Chocolate, Cuba, and the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s”, Louis Peréz jr., “Approaching Change and Changelessness in the Historiography of Cuba”, and Lars Schoultz’s “Benevolent Domination: The Ideology of U.S. Policy toward Cuba’, all share and discuss a long complicated history of Cuban relations and, images of U.S. perceptions of Cubans and how those images and relationships translate into Cuban…

The Mongols were people from Central Asia who came together to establish an empire which lasted from 1206 CE to 1368 CE. They were herdsmen and tradesmen who herded sheep and goats, and were nomadic people. Even though at first the Mongol community was small, they were able to expand by conquering China, Persia, and Russia. The Mongols were culturally destructive and constructive to a moderate extent in Persia during the 13th century because they positively influenced academics while they…

sources as proof for his idea I am not sure that I agree with the idea that it was only a religious war. Rather I feel that this might have been one small factor in what really caused the Crimean War. My second source and my historiography A Century of the Historiography of the Origins of the Crimean War was written by Brison D. Gooch, who is considered an authority on the Crimean War. He was a history professor at several universities throughout the United States including Institute of…

Firstly, the historiography of the subject will be examined. The initial idea that large shifts in attitudes towards the supernatural resulting from the Reformation were presented by Max Weber in his work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Weber argued that the Reformation was part of some great process, where Protestantism rejected sacramental magic and instead brought about a rationalisation and intellectualisation of the world where incorporeal forces no longer existed in…

northern development and continental defense became intertwined. There has been a tendency in the historiography to over-emphasize the threat that American presence on Canadian soil brought to Canadian sovereignty. This paper aims to temper this dominant belief in the historiography by examining the strategic priorities of Canada throughout the Second World War and…

In this essay I wish to discuss how Woolf brings history and fiction together in Orlando to reveal the limitations of Victorian historiography and biography. Orlando doesn’t focus on literature’s preoccupation with history but focuses on fiction’s engagement with the discipline of history itself,it illustrates the ways that narrative fiction challenges the authority of information documented by professional historical biography in the twentieth century. The perspective that I have chosen to…

the very few works in English on Smaragus, one of the most important authors of the Speculum Principum. His work “The Date and the Recipient of Smaragdus’ Via Regia was published in 1928 and still proves an important piece of literature in the historiography. His supposition that the Via Regia, instead of traditionally addressing Charlemagne, addresses Louis the Pious holds great merit. This addressment to Louis confers greater power and importance to Louis because of this…

Even if one is not a firm believer in Marxist historiography, they cannot deny its usefulness in analyzing a historical situation. It is definitely true that the economic structure and government system in which a person lives with play a large role in their lives. Where they live, the laws they have to…