Historiography

The Nine Years War and its aftermath are without question one of the great turning points of Irish history. In addition to witnessing the zenith of Gaelic military power and sophistication, perversely, it also led to the final destruction of native military and political power. Despite the apparent modernisation of the native Irish forces it is not hard to find articles and attitudes which view the war as a contest of the backward and militarily weak Irish, against the modern armies of Elizabeth…

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros has occupied a shifting and uncertain place in the history of Western Europe in the sixteenth century. Historians have experienced considerable difficulty trying to pin him down in broad historical categories: he was a humanist, except for when he burned Muslim books in order to suppress their text-based philosophy. He was an ecclesiastical reformer, except for his unwillingness to create serious change within the Spanish Inquisition. The contradictions above are…

HIST 900 Said Comps Summary Tags: Said, Orientalism, Orientalist, Post-Colonial, “other,” “othering”, Oriental, Occidental 1. Footnote: Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979). 2. Thesis: Said’s Orientalism responds to the European and American trend in history to divide Eastern and Western or Oriental and Occidental histories by comparing the “exotic” East to the “civilized” West. This division “others” the East and asserts the West’s power and dominance over the East…

John Boyd Orr a famous doctor, biologist and politician explains, “In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without”. This phrase links the common and reoccurring rise/ downfall of ancient cultures and civilisations. Worldwide, historians agree that the ancient Mongolians like many civilisations, revolutionised and contributed significantly to the contemporary world.…

Assessment of the holocaust and apartheid seems both fitting and necessary. Both circumstances had happened for relatively the same amount of years. The periods preceded one another, conveniently placing the impacts of each occasion to question.Both periods saw the discrimination of a specific grouping of ethnicity. Both regime actions had met profound international attention. The only differences would be that the holocaust indicates more of a genocide, viewing the holocaust may be seen as…

Politically, the Unionist leadership were out matched by the wave of secessionist leadership coming into power during the mid-to-late 1950s in Texas. The next three articles describe typical traits of the Unionist leadership and how those traits motivated them both politically and socially in the eventual support for or against secession. Kenneth Wayne Howell’s article, “When the Rabble Hiss, Well May Patriots Tremble: James Webb Throckmorton and the Secession Movement in Texas, 1854-1861,”…

W.E.B. Du Bois and Luke Sawyer each identify the pursuit of individual economic gain as chief among the challenges facing African Americans in their struggle for racial equality at the turn of the twentieth century. Du Bois, a political giant and literary master, disdainfully associates the hunger for profit and position with vulgarity, pretense, and ostentation—all qualities that carry with them inflections of the lower classes and poor taste—and further links these “money-getters” with…

“Nazis”, another word for terror which refreshes all the wounds in the history of humanity. Everyone in the world connect Nazis to holocaust which is absolutely true, but they aren’t aware of all the steps they took in order to reach to that position where they can get enough trust of people who will not fight back against them. Well, we all know that it didn’t work out well for them and ended up losing their lives as well. Nazis was a group made of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and some…

relations after Cuba’s independence. Louis Perez has several other books dealing with relations between the United States and Cuba including, Cuba Under The Platt Amendment, 1902-1934, The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography, and several other works that deal with the topic before the time that my research starts. Cuba Between Reform and Revolution, is a book by Louis Perez that deals with my topic and time period. In the book chapters ten, eleven, and…

propaganda system, Stalin ensured that Ivan IV and Peter the Great were portrayed exclusively in a very positive light, despite Soviet historian’s, Militsa Nechkina, critique that honouring Ivan the Terrible as such was reminiscent of ‘bourgeois historiography’. However, Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great were very significant for Stalin. Robert Tucker, Stalin’s biographer, believed that Stalin modeled his leadership style and the policies he evoked on Ivan and Peter’s policies. In fact,…