Historiography

In the book, Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society, 1787-1834, author Mary Turner focuses on the series of slave revolts that followed a fire in St. James, Jamaica in 1831; specifically the Baptist War. Slaves feel that the message by missionaries in Jamaica, that God saw both black and white men as equal, seemed contradictory as they are being used as slaves to cultivate sugar and coffee for the profit of whites. Missionaries see how slaves are treated, and to…

Outside the system of the National Archives, there are other depositories of letters from POW/MIA families. One shortcut to collect such correspondence is the Laurence Jolidon papers in the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. It contains the copies of the primary sources (including over a hundred letters) he used to write Last Seen Alive (1995). Other possibilities include the personal papers of Defense Secretaries and State Secretaries. According to my talk…

Through the events of the French Revolution, the implications of the fight for justice from 1789 is still visible today around France through slogans such as ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’. The French Revolution was not only important in spreading the notion of democracy in France, but the event also provoked the notion of governmental change throughout Europe. The revolution would ultimately urge France to change its government to a democracy as a whole. The Storming of the Bastille…

with the historical knowledge of such disempowered women, Spivak expands the original definition of the subaltern given by Guha and others to include the struggles and experiences of women also. According to her, “Both as object of colonialist historiography and as subject of insurgency, the ideological construction of gender keeps the male dominant. If in the context of colonial production, the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the subaltern as female is even more deeply in…

The American and French revolutions were sparked from ideas stemming from the era of Enlightenment. This Enlightenment era was revolutionized by new theories of which government and citizens should work. These ideas stemming from philosophers like John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Rousseau and Montesquieu motivated the American and French Revolutions. For the general purpose of this paper, let us compare and contrast the causes of the American and French Revolutions and how these causes reflected in…

mediums not restricted to cinema, immersion of the viewer and encouragement of active participation and exploration. On the other hand, expansion can be related to intangible human sensorial and communicational capacities. However, the term and its historiography have been perpetually ambiguously perceived and debated…

Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution draws on James E. Crisp's rich data of the Texas Revolution and his own inclusion with predisposition and fanaticism. Diving more significant into the myths incorporating the Alamo, for instance, Davy Crockett's courageous passing and the authenticity of the de la Peña diary, Crisp uncovers as of now covered truths, tunes in point-by-point counter with diverse curators (both learner and master), and…

In The Disappearing Mestizo, the central question that Joanne Rappaport proposes is "when and how is someone a mestizo" (p, 4). In this analysis, I will explain about how she examines mestizaje as a negotiable category that is constructed based on the relations between class, social networking, and permeability of the gender. In terms of mestizaje, the concept makes reference to the racial mixture from a European and indigenous individuals. However, in her investigation Rappaport,…

The study of the state in India between 1000 and 1700 has become one of the most controversial issues n contemporary Indian historiography. Various scholars, and in some cases ‘schools’, have come forward with different approaches and conceptual models to define the Indian state and its key features. At the simplest level, feudalism can be best defined as a political, economic, social and cultural system that emerged or at least, first came to light, in ninth-century- Europe and lasted till…

In Rebecca Richmond 's A Woman of Texas: Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, she discussed the life of Anna Hardwick and her contribution to the progression of teaching in Texas and the progression of women 's rights worldwide.She addressed Anna 's hunger for education for herself and others, and how this hunger made her a better teacher and the persuasion she had when it came to teaching. Numerous times throughout the book, Rebecca mentioned how Anna was able to engage all of her students on a level…