Historiography

Throughout multiple centuries, colonialism occurred all over the world. Colonialism referred to a dominant country established its colonies in another nation. The dominant country had an absolute control over its colony countries. All the resources, the people or any other properties within the colony countries will also belong to the colonized nation. As a result, many colonies spoke their colonized country’s language and shared their culture. One example from the colonial period is Britain and…

Introduction The focus on knowledge production on leadership through using the political and historical thinking of Hannah Arendt (1958) is a contribution I would like to make to educational leadership theory in general as well as to leadership in a College School Network environment specifically, as the main focus of this study. My argument is that Arendt’s approach can provoke ideas, meanings and understandings for educational leadership by examining the interrelationship between plural…

All throughout Jewish history, and even into the 21st century, Jews have been constantly fighting the battle against anti-Semitism. This has been a recurring hardship for Jews all around the world. The Nazi rise to power in Germany led to the prime example of anti-Semitism thus far, the development of the Final Solution. This was the plan to exterminate all of the Jewish people, and resulted in the death of six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population. More than 70 years after this…

Political leadership guided the North and South landscape, but the military leadership guided the battlefield. The Civil War was a modern war compared to the Napoleonic wars and for the South; Lee is seen by some scholars as a leader out of touch with modern warfare while other generals such as those from the Union were waging a modern style of warfare. In the article, An Old-Fashioned Soldier in a Modern War?: Robert E. Lee as Confederate General, Gary Gallagher takes a historiographical…

The start of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union after the Second World War began a series of standoffs and conflicts between the two superpowers. This conflict however, did not remain in the two countries and because both desired dominance over one another but did not want all out war, the conflicts were played out in weaker or smaller countries and regions of the world such as in the Middle East. The United States was attracted to the Middle East due to the containment…

WWI waged on for a devastating four years, yet in only six weeks, France succumbed to German attack and plunged society into its next world war. Historians wrestle with explanations, trying to pin-point specific political, psychological and military French failures which were the catalyst for the actual Fall of France. For these researchers, trying to demystify events often resurrects their own personal perspectives on history. Sometimes their bias seeps into their works. None-the-less, Julian…

In a special report of the December 1989 American Medical News, Delia O’Hara rightly noted: ‘Much is written concerning abortion; little of it is about the physicians faced with the decision of whether to do this procedure.’ In 43 years of legal abortion, feminist and legal progressive narratives have dominated analysis of American abortion providers. This paper argues that the 1973 Supreme Court Roe V. Wade ruling, which declared state laws banning abortion unconstitutional, was of little…

In 1933, Adolf Hitler led the Nazi Party to power in Germany. When he led his invasion in 1939, he referred to it as the “Defensive War” because he proclaimed that Poland attacked Germany, so the Germans living in Poland were to be oppressed with bloody terror and to be driven from their homes. To Hitler, the series of border violations proved that the Poles were no longer willing to respect the German frontier. On September 1st, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, later being joined by the Soviet…

Rationale In this report, the “Rise and Fall of the Qin Dynasty” will be addressed. I intend to delve into the cultures of the Qin Dynasty, specifically exploring events and aspects of the ancient era, highlighting how they have transcended through time to impact on our interpretation of the past. In particular, I wish to evoke an array of viewpoints on the much debated topic of “whether Qin Shi Huang was successful as a leader”, I will compare these viewpoints to sufficiently reach an unbiased…

From 1942-1964, the United States government, in conjunction with the Mexican government, instituted into an immigration agreement known as the Bracero Program. This agreement was an attempt to reduce illegal immigration by instituting a program of legal labor (using bracero, a term literally meaning “arm-man”, loosely translated to “farmhand” ) in which American farmers could hire young Mexican men, pay them low wages and send them back to Mexico once they were no longer needed. In addition…