Historiography

Schwartz’s text is both a history and historiography—he provides a history of the Mesoamerican indigenous groups and the Spaniards, while analyzing the various biases present in the many accounts of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. He also sets the scene for his book to be presented as a compilation of various primary sources, each reflecting the different views of the groups involved. He breaks his introductory chapter into six main sections—the indigenous people of Mesoamerica, Tenochtitlan,…

The historiography is challenged by the scene when Flame is raped by Che who is a fellow male guerrilla (Barnes 2006, 251). The portrayal of rape in this film contradicted the idea of gender equality highlighting the oppression of women fighters (Barnes 2006, 252)…

There are many great bands and artists out there to contrast. For example, there are super groups like Chicago, Earth Wind & Fire, and Eagles. There are also amazing soloists in the form of Kenny Rogers, Bruno Mars, and Dolly Parton, but the two groups I choose to contrast have to be the Beatles, followed by Pentatonix. The differences between these two are their nationality, decade in which they played, and the format in which they were made. Pentatonix and the Beatles were formed in very…

the other hand, is visible in the museums that take on a more traditional approach towards museology, such as Neues Museum in Berlin. The museum re-opened in 2009 and intertwined its revolutionary architecture by David Chipperfield with its ruin historiography, by visibly rendering the traces of destruction in the museum’s structure . This approach positioned the museum in the context of Germany’s memory culture and in this way, managed to convince the public of its…

I argue that Limpieza de Sangre and anti-conversos statutes were tools of racialization and proto-racism in early-modern Iberia because they were used to stratify society based on imagined and embodied cultural and moral attributes. This process of racialization discriminated against conversos both civically and ecclesiastically. In order to substantiate this thesis, I will focus on raza and the evolution of its meaning in connection with Jews. Next, I will examine limpieza de sangre statutes…

Both, Sean Kelsey’s, “The Death of Charles I,” and “The Trial and Execution of Charles I,” written by Clive Holmes are historical articles that present detailed accounts on the trial and execution of King Charles I. Although these historians compare in their attempts to evaluate the significance of the incident, their works contrast radically in terms of developing these views. Where Kelsey believes that the trial of King Charles was never intended as a pretext to execution, Holmes disagrees.…

contribution to the revolution. Moreover, the weak leadership of France is the major key to the revolution. This paper discusses the primary cause of the revolution and ways through which it could have been prevented. Furthermore, the article covers the historiography of the French revolution discussing some of the critical views by the various historians and writers. The French Revolution is one of the revolutions that had significant influences in the 18th century that took place in 1879…

their opinions and theses have changed. This paper will look at and analyze three historians and their theses: Alistair Horne, Julian Jackson, and A.F. Kovacs. In addition, it will analyze an essay discussing Robert Doughty and his revolutionary historiography works based on the Fall of France. However, all of these essays, books, and arguments are meaningless without an accurate understanding of the situations leading up and occurring during France’s defeat to Germany.…

Through historiography, different ideas on what exactly happened and why have changed the historical footprint. In colonial America, for instance, people from all lifestyles depended on the customary aspects of life, the “essential needs.” However, like today, we tend…

The subject of the post-Pearl Harbor reaction of the United States has become a topic of study by various historians. One such is John W. Dower who explores the intriguing comparison between American and Japanese depictions of each other in his short essay titled Race, Language, and War in Two Cultures: World War II in Asia. It is Dower’s essay that takes this interesting case study to draw the conclusion that the Japanese and the Americans were not that different in their propagandistic…