Historiography

arguments and engages his readers. He brings up important questions regarding the practice and study of historical writing and issues of professionalism and ethical conduct in scholarly work. This book would be recommended for anyone interested in the historiography of writing in the historical field of study. It would also be of interest to anyone who cared to look beyond the typical captivating narrative and look at the foundations of history in America, and how such foundations affect…

Annotated Bibliography: Freud Hebbrecht, M. (2013). The dream as a picture of the psychoanalytic process. Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 6(2), 123–142. Retrieved from https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=93354202&site=ehost-live&scope=site This article references the Interpretation of Dreams by Freud in reference to the pictures of dream life and the psychology behind dreams. Freuds technique is to break the…

In her award-winning article, “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History,” author Heather Ann Thompson writes that “historians have largely ignored the mass incarceration of the late twentieth century and have not yet begun to sort out its impact on the social, economic, and political evolution of the postwar period.” Historian Elizabeth Hinton’s book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, is one response to Thompson’s…

Hard times in the Hometown was written by Martin Dusinberre, an English teacher who travels to Kaminoseki, a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a small town on Japan’s Inland Sea who later returns to start dissertation fieldwork in 2003. This book is featured more so in parts rather with the inclusion of chapters to broaden his study rather than use each chapter to focus on one topic at hand. At first thought, the method of writing Kaminoseki in a broad manner seemed opposite to what history…

The Nanjing massacre is one of the most devastating events that took place in China during the second Shino-Japanese war. The massacre was a series of war crimes committed by the Japanese soldiers upon taking over the city, Nanjing. The Japanese soldiers raped, murdered, and looted the Chinese citizens that were left abandoned by the Chinese military forces. The figure of the atrocities ranges from 150,000 to 200,000 that is claimed by China and 25,000 to 50,000 people that is claimed by the…

provided nothing important”. However, Carney goes about providing a list of native African crops that can be seen in cuisines of Jamaica, Brazil, and Martinique as evidence of Africa’s contribution to the Columbian Exchange. She even connects to the historiography of the subject by giving background on the agriculture in Africa, discussing the interaction between European settlers, and evaluating evidence to reveal the impact Africans have made in agriculture and cuisines across the Atlantic and…

Historical knowledge tends to objectivity, the absence of which can cast doubt on the fact that truth is available to historical knowledge. In the theory of knowledge, the subject and the object considered as two completely contradictory sides. True knowledge means the correspondence of the subject's knowledge about the object, while the object belongs to the material, physical world. However, the purpose of knowledge can be ideal - for example, in case of the history of thought, philosophy, or…

Sir Thomas More is considered one of the most significant English intellectuals of the early 16th century. He was an exceptional example of what education could obtain in England. Thomas More was an English lawyer, writer, scholar, leader in Utopian Literature, Member of Parliament, Chancellor and Catholic martyr. More was born into the family of a well-renounced lawyer on February 7, 1478. More’s family, although not that of a noble family, that had a long tradition of civic service to London…

Focusing on the lives of those who traversed the waters of the Atlantic aboard slave ships bound for the Caribbean and America has proven to be a task by historians in recent years as more and more is added to the already growing historiography of the Atlantic slave trade, but most importantly, the lives of the Africans who were the focus of this European endeavor. Stephanie Smallwood’s book Saltwater Slavery is a testament to this ongoing research. In her book, Smallwood focuses on a narrow…

Basically, chronicle in medieval Ethiopia used as the main media of information, which it is compared in modern sense with a newspaper and a chronicle with a journalist. All the chronicles produced in the period under discussion with various degree purposefully concerned to portray the ideological orientation of Royalty that means the Ethiopian kings were descendants of the lineage of Judah, Son of David and Solomon who were kings in Jerusalem. As Pankhurst and Marrassini remarked, those…