Historiography

history. Carroll’s intention of this article is to meet the needs of women’s history. To do this, Carroll suggest that historians must have a critical historiography of the field, to test the theories of past and present historians, and to find a conceptual clarity as well as define new directions. The article contains both essays of critical historiography and case studies. Carroll brakes down the examination of women’s history into two major parts: past and current work. Within the past works,…

The Subaltern Studies project, emerged in the eighties as a strong voice for the voiceless, attempted to interrogate the Indian historiography that systematically denied the space for the Other. The Subaltern scholars' interpretation of the problematics of the "elite bourgeois" nationalist narratives not only exposed the limitations of the dominant discourse, which failed "to produce…

myths surrounding the crimes, ultimately leaving the question of her guilt open to the reader. The most recent addition to the historiography of Minnie Dean is Sophie Davis’s dissertation looking the legality of Dean’s conviction. It is clear, that as time has progressed, the sentiment towards Dean and her crimes have softened considerably. In this way, the historiography raises the question as to why historians began to change the perspective and challenge the narrative after 90 years of…

Historiography can be defined as the study and interpretation of historical writing. It is “understanding how historians of the past conceived of their projects and the methods they used.” A historiographical analysis studies the history of historical writing on a variety of topics such as the Vikings. When mankind usually thinks about the Vikings, they think of strong male warriors raiding villages and sailing the seas on their long ships. In fact, “Vikings are irredeemably male in the…

Since the professionalization of world history the lens that historians would look through was supremely Eurocentric. The other parts of the world had their accomplishments and contributed to the world as a whole, but Europe was usually the protagonist in the stories told. More recently world historians have been viewing the world through what Ross Dunn describes as the “Different Cultures Model,” which looks at the past from the opposite perspective. The modern historians Lynda Shaffer, Xinru…

The storyteller here, tries to destabilise methodical historiography of the West and the supremacy that this historiography denotes by offering a non-linear and private his/story. What Rushdie seeks to do is to generate substitutes not merely to happenings but also to the discourse of past that describes these events. In the plot, destabilization…

unravel threads of lesser-know continuity between the post-war neo-avant-gardes and the post-modernists. This research will focus on a relatively well-known yet under-examined figure, Theo Crosby, to fill in the gaps and to expand the existing historiography of post-war British architecture. Crosby’s significance had been widely identified through his connections to the Independent Group, the Smithson couple and later the Archigram group. His tenure as the technical editor of the Architectural…

Understanding the Kejaksaan (Indonesian Prosecution Service/IPS) requires an inquiry into the history of, the contestation between and the political struggle within state bodies. This historical context is concerned with the extent to which the Kejaksaan has developed within the constitution and regulations. It is also concerned with how political regimes have shaped the Kejaksaan’s organisation and culture within the criminal justice system. In this chapter, I will address the Kejaksaan…

The article “War in the Lay of the Cid” by Francisco Garcia Fitz argues how the epic poem Lay of the Cid is best used as a historical document illustrating “the art of war”, as Fitz calls it on page 62, in the middle ages. The author argues that the poem can best be used as a primary source of military life in the Middle Ages, more specifically from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when the poem is believed to have originated. The argument continues that while the poet loosely based his poem…

Annotated Bibliography by Shannon Parker. Carr, H. Edward. What is history? (Vintage, 1967) This book is based on the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures held in Cambridge University on January-March 1961. It is a study focusing on the questions that enshroud the pursuit of history and a Historians job. The heart of this book is the analysis of studying history, the approaches taken upon that task, and how they have changed throughout the centuries. It asks important questions, what is cause…