Historiography

world. Therefore, it is easy to assume that they exercised no power at all, forced to bow to the will of their male counterparts. By using countless examples from the lives of French noblewomen during this time, Kettering displays a detailed historiography to provide evidence for her argument: that French noblewomen during this time utilised a considerable amount of power in the form of patronage. Though often indirect, this cannot be underestimated. She does this by first underlining the…

The Puritans parallelled themselves to the Israelites fleeing the Egyptians in pursuit of the Land of Milk and Honey. Seventeenth century Puritans were under the belief that the presence and legacy of Roman Catholic rituals that presided within the Church of England would lead to God’s Wrath befalling England. The Atlantic Coast of North America was an untouched landscape promising the foundation of a new more pure and pious England. One such Puritan, John Winthrop, began to prepare parameters…

beliefs and practices. This included their calendars and astrological calculations, divination, prophecies. They also kept the knowledge to interpret spiritual omens that would predict future events. In addition, the Maya priests were experts in historiography and maintained the genealogical…

There has been many times throughout history the United States government has decided to intervene in foreign matters. From the Spanish-American War, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, and the War on Terror among others, the United States has played some sort of role in foreign affairs, making their mark upon the world and history. Many people are not educated upon the Allied intervention in the Russian Revolution and the Civil War that was commencing in the years after World War One. Very few people…

inevitably accompanied by exclusion and furthermore that all “past ‘events’ are potential historical ‘facts’, but the ones that become facts are those that are chosen to be narrated” (Hutcheon 1989: 75). Thus, with this unusual selection the limits of historiography are emphasized as the provisionality and incompleteness of history are…

than any other scholar to addressing early-Virginia’s legal system by analyzing its laws through an original methodology. In The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race, she argues against the majority opinion within traditional historiography which claims that Virginia was a secular place. To the contrary, Goetz believes that religion was as important to the colonists of Virginia as it was to the Puritans of New England. The Christian belief in the unity of mankind heavily…

Paper The Final Solution Ever since the world has become aware of the Holocaust on the Jews, many historians have debated back and forth of who caused this, why this had happened, and when it was decided. Although the popular opinion is to put all of the blame on Hitler because he was the complete ruler at the time, but through more research there are other debates spoken about and other ideas became even more popular. Two of the more popular schools of thought are functionalism and…

like to examine the focal argument of Adom Getachew’s “Universalism After the Postcolonial Turn: Interpreting the Haitian Revolution” through the lens of CLR James’ revolutionary history The Black Jacobins. Getachew’s essay presents a challenging historiography, studying the way that we write history to centralize Europe and the ideologies that spill forth from it. Primarily, she urges spectators of history to turn, in their analyzation of revolutions-- specifically, the Haitian revolution, --…

and employment for women. While many women did align themselves with eugenic science, they created a new and distinct eugenic feminism that combined their feminist legal goals and eugenic reasoning. The common theme in this widely differing historiography is to examine how feminism fits into the sphere of eugenic ideals. In this, there seems to be a lack of research into eugenic responses to feminism. Further, while feminism is characterized as eager to enter the eugenics movement and use…

collection differing markedly from the poet’s anthem-like epics, seeking to present the plight of the Palestinians to a more universal reader. At the same time, he aims to rewrite Palestinian history in mythic terms to combat the claims made by Zionist historiography. One can indeed argue that Darwish’s successive moves to Cairo and then Beirut, as well as the different political pressures exerted upon him, influenced his poetry between the years 1986 and 1993. During this period, Darwish…