Historiography

Kathryn Burn’s book, Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru, provides an indepth look at colonial society throughout three centuries through the inner workings of a convent. The author is able to skillfully guide the reader through an analysis of the colonization of Cuzco, the most important Andean city in Southern Peru, from the insides of a convent of cloistered women. In the colonization of the Americas the nuns were in no way isolated from the outside world. In…

Juan Gómez-Quiñones’ (2012), Indigenous Quotient, Stalking Words: American Indian Heritage as Future, is a creation of two essays: the first part is an attempt to counter the historiography surrounding Indian identity, culture, and history; the second half reveals the theory of Indigenitude and why it is important to incorporate the studies of the Indigenous into school curriculum. The term “Indigenitude” is presented by Gomez-Quinones as a shift from other terms that commonly label the…

Dan Stone’s Constructing the Holocaust: A Study in Historiography is divided into two parts. The first is an overview of the Holocaust and covers the way in which the narratives of the Holocaust have been formed, as well as tracing the development of literature from publications from just after the war that became the common histories of the Holocaust up to more recent publications; the second examines narrative theory via philosophy and theology, as well as debating the “uniqueness” of the…

Written by Morgan Pitelka, Spectacular Accumulation is a book that centers around material culture in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Japan, covering the changes and continuities from medieval society to the early modern era through looking into famous objects that essentially shape the period. Illustrated with colorful pictures of objects, including potteries, swords and paintings, instead of utilizing only textual representation, Pitelka emphasizes on the importance of…

The historiography of the relationship is significantly impacted by the outcome of the disputes between King Philip IV of France and Pope Boniface VIII as well as other smaller altercations. Ullmann argues that ecclesiastical authority already had a significant…

The Korean War: A History by Bruce Cumings offers a new look at the history of the Korean War. The book seeks to provide an alternative to the typical military history of the Korean War and challenges the reader to critically think about their previous presumptions of what happened in Korea. A major theme in The Korean War is memory and the idea of how war is remembered. Cumings’ main argument is that the common idea among scholars and the general public that the Korean War should be remembered…

Throughout this semester in the Comparative History of North America course, I have learned how all global processes and events are in some way linked to another event in the same region or perhaps in a country far away. Also, understanding how the same event is viewed historically or documented in the first person, can be drastically different depending on which side the author of the document is aligned with. By comparing these events from all perspectives we get a truer version of the how…

The debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki concerns the ethical, licit and military controversies circumventing the Amalgamated States' atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 at the close of the World War II (1939–45). On 26 July 1945, Cumulated States President Harry S. Truman, Amalgamated Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Regime Chiang Kai-shek issued the Potsdam Declaration, which outlined the…

The material in question; “Our single most important challenge is to establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual” reflects Nelson Mandela’s advocacy for equality within the realm of freedom and rights, specifically, the instilment and practice of freedom and rights for all native South African citizens. The idea of freedom of the individual was an unrecognizable right for the native South African population under the apartheid,…

Though, in recent times, historiography has done a good job at stopping that kind of prejudice. Race is as much more than a subject to categorize. Many Latin Americans are learning more from this. Like a lot of history particularly with race there are a lot of historical biases that…