Historiography

The early modern period, was a time plagued by large scale witch-hunts and trials across Europe. During this period the classification of a witch changed, and the attitude towards those who practiced witchcraft shifted away from the medieval ideas of white and black magic, to a vision that all magic not given by god, must have come from Satan there therefore be evil. The ways witchcraft occurred, and the ways it was dealt with varied greatly across Europe, as did the peaks of witch activity in…

Spy books are documentation for the researchers of knowledge to empower them to consider the verifiable setting. They reflect true geopolitical tensions that exist in a particular time. Extraordinary Amusement presents key clash between the colossal settler controls in focal Asia, England, France, and Tsarist Russia. Kim is a contemplation on the magnificent development and interests of Russia against India. Martin Tomas remarks on this issue: "In Kipling's enigmatic story Kim, the orphaned…

According to Ngugi, “literature is a reflection on the aesthetic and imaginative planes, of a community’s wrestling with its total environment to produce the basic means of life… and in the process creating and re-creating itself in history.” This is also the basic premise of the play which sensitively registers the account of the Mau Mau, which had effectively sublimated in the documented history of the Jomo Kenyatta regime. It is noteworthy that the play opens with a song by a crowd of…

A prostitute in the 18th century was anyone who engaged in sex for money or favors. It is important to note that people could engage in prostitution without it being their sole career. Prostitution could and was most often a side job, used to help supplement low wages in domestic service or other occupations. Those that were career prostitutes were often picked up by a procurer, usually an old woman who would either trick or coerce the adolescent into performing sexual acts for money. These…

during the Holocaust, and ideas historians have now of the Holocaust. Secondary sources will be used to provide analysis on the questions, and to provide different viewpoints.These sources will also give conflicting analysis in order to create a historiography. Primary sources will be used to contribute…

This source proves valuable as it provides abundant relevant statistics of Cuba from 1957-2000 and both primary and secondary source quotes relating to the events in Cuba under the rule of Fidel Castro. This is extremely valuable for the use of historiography in this investigation. For example, it provides Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs’ Special Assistant Hill’s original, unfiltered perspective of Castro’s rise to power, which was that “the impact that real honesty,…

It was a widely held belief that the frontier was open for the taking. A belief not only incorrect, but simply one of ignorance. Everell Flecher’s youthful imagination and inaccurate education in Hope Leslie is fractured and set straight by a single story. He learns from Magawisca, a captive Native American, that the frontier is made up of false images and stories and thus it has become this “imaginal place” (Schneekloth 210). Young Flecher was so caught up in what he thought was right that,…

COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY The systematic history writing in the Indian subcontinent started with the coming of the Europeans, who, for their administrative compulsions were required to know the land and its inhabitants whom they were going to rule. But the history produced by them was always imbued with the notions of oriental despotism and self-sufficient village economy, the main characteristic of which was the changelessness from the earliest times to the coming of colonial rule. Hence, all the…

contention whether Berlin wooed Moscow into benign rapprochement in a series of deceptions stemming from the directive or Stalin, throughout it all, remained sceptical of Hitler’s true designs, merely miscalculating the timing of the invasion. The historiography remains divided on the issue of culpability, a debate complicated by war journals, first-person accounts, and only partially published military collections that tell an arguably ambiguous story. This paper defines Operation Barbarossa as…

towards history bespeaks not only the playwright’s frustration with a Western tradition that in the spirit of Hegel has tended to erase or subsume black history under the white sign, but, above all, her determination to challenge such hegemonic historiography by opposing it with her own” (Metcalf and Spaulding, African American Culture and Society After Rodney King). Adrienne Kennedy rebuked realism, embraced the avante-garde for poetic drama, took different elements of…