Historiography

Gover, C. Jane, The Positive Image: Women Photographers in Turn of the Century America. New York: State University of New York Press, 1988 In the opening chapter ‘There Will Be a New Era,’ Gover outlines the relationship between women and photography from its early pioneer days to the end of the nineteenth century, stating the importance of Eastman’s advertisements in attracting women to the medium by depicting them as fully independent despite the restrictions they still faced. Gover begins…

Roy Porter has discussed the Scottish Enlightenment in these terms and in his own words, spliced ‘Scottish thinkers into the British story as a whole’. The historiography suggests many scholars and historians consider the Scottish Enlightenment to be a consequence of closer association with England and more specifically as a direct result of the Union of Crowns in 1707. Many key figures of the Enlightenment were…

This premise is also reinforced by another remark again found in Islamic Art &Architecture which states “Islam was revealed to the prophet Muhamad in western Arabia in the early 7th Century. Later historiography defined this period as a “time of ignorance” (the Jahiliya), in the primary sense a spiritually unenlightened period, but also as a time of relatively limited cultural achievement.” (35). Some would say that this point set in stone for the next…

Since the time of great antiquity, heroes emerge in both history and literature across the global arena. Historically, a hero will surface immediately to counteract disputes and clashes without any adjournment. In Persian and English medieval literature, too, the presence of heroes is inevitable. Heroes (e.g. Beowulf, Sir Gawain, Rostam, Sohrab, Sekander, etc.), both, historical and literary, share common features, such as selflessness and compassion for their people. Outsiders, however, are not…

and Emerson Baker were not the only people to write about the Salem Witch trials and they will not be the last. However, future historians will continue to build off their work and either support or criticize their theories and conclusions. The historiography of the Salem Witch Trials changed drastically over a period of 148 years. Charles Upham’s 1867 volumes, Salem Witchcraft: With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects and Emerson Baker’s 2015…

The novel deals with the political and quasi-historical documentation, calling for an appreciation of arguments regarding the historiography of the Partition. The novel is a part of Partition fiction that seeks to signify the social and psychosomatic realities of a particular place at a particular time (Lahore during 1942–1948), and an attention to the representative approaches that…

Primarily from 1955 to 1975, the Vietnam War not only changed the history of the army but it also changed the history of gender roles. For the longest time, woman did not have the same freedoms as men and were held back from reaching their full potential. However, after World War II, the roles of woman began to change. From historical knowledge, I know that these women increasingly began to attend college, enter new professions, and fought to have more opportunities in society. In Kara Dixon…

In Balcer’s analysis of the Indo-European epics—in particular, the Behistun Inscription—he asserts that the nature of historiography as to how the panegyric text was formed through the methods of the scribal tradition detecting “the exposition…and the entire text as well possess[ing] numerous qualities of epic narrative and thematic development” (61). Yet, this continues as he finds the “epic form, based upon scattered kernels of historical oral traditions, produces a fictional narrative”, which…

The text rather has characteristics of different genres, including Biography, Autobiography, Travel writing, Historiography and Ethnography, to name a few. As Javed Majeed points out in Ozawa 2006: 247, there has been criticism of the fact that Ghosh’s text lacks the mutual exchange between ethnographer and informants (Ozawa 2006: 247). However, as Ghosh points out…

How did the Cultural Revolution impact in the production of historical knowledge in China? Timmy Lamwaikit SB420181 In Chinese history, Cultural Revolution has an important position.Most of Chinese know the word,but they do not know what do not mean clearly.So,what is a main mean about Cultural Revolution?And what does its impact? Cultural Revolution is a very complicated thing. Its results with the original purpose of the opposite claims, it makes an extremely tragic consequences. The…