History of Pakistan

the narrative current. This highlights the inability of the powerless to become their own “spokesmen” within the narrative of traditional history. Instead their depiction is shaped and controlled by the powerful “politicians and press”. However, it is also the powerful Commissioner Harris, builder of the waterworks thus symbolic author of Toronto’s official history, who finally helps Patrick don the “skin of a lion”. This is highlighted in Harris’s allusion to the epic of Gilgamesh where Patrick…

Interpretation of the past is an immense task left mostly to historians, who themselves have differing views and methods among each other. In From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods, Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier provide a history of the methodical and theoretical changes that historians have embraced and rejected. Many of these transformations were inspired by other disciplines as well as a reflection of social and political climates. Howell and Prevenier explain the…

Assembling of History Puzzles Through Memory Memoirs are magnificent pieces of history that allows us to step into a whole different part of history and enables us to relive history through the portrayal of one’s perspective. Although memoirs can leave an everlasting impression of past history, it can be faulty to use as a historical factual piece as memory can be faulty of past information. Memoirs play an important role just as much as interpreting the past using “historical scientific facts”…

of objectivity and its connection to history. In addition to this, it is essential to recognize the importance of how power can influence the way society views the past. With this recognition, the historian can make the connection of how power controls knowledge, which writes the history of society. This connection of power and history leads to the reason of why historians argue objectivity. With the knowledge of these issues and their connections to history, the historian will comprehend why…

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots” (Garvey). If we truly grasp this quote from Marcus Garvey and portray it to class, we can understand just how important the course Western Civilization I really is. What I mean is that the pivotal points of history that is taught in Western Civilization I helps to guide the people of today to a brighter future. Using these key historical events that is gone over in the course, we can use this…

specific subsections. Not so with Guns, Germs, and Steel, a big history with one specific goal, to answer the question of why some societies dominated others in modern history. Wasting no time in stating his focus, Jared Diamond declares that “This book attempts to provide a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years.”(Diamond, 9) Arguing against any lingering theories of racist genetic inequality, Diamond purposes that history played out along the course it did…

When History Is About Feelings In Frank Delaney’s Ireland, he takes the reader through the vivid tale of Irish history from a variety of perspectives. He applies emotion in his writing to criticize how history is taught today. Most scholars would agree with Ronan O’Mara’s professor, T. Barlett Ryle, when he argues, “History is not about feelings. History is about knowledge” (Delaney 342). However, it is taught from an objective point of view that causes it to be devalued, misunderstood, and…

My culture area was Indonesia and Philippines; these countries are located in Southeast Asia. The groups that make up these culture areas are Berawan, Dyaks, Ifugao, and Tana Toraja. Some of these groups have been around for thousands of years, more specifically the Tana Toraja have been in their location for 2,000 years. The Tana Toraja is known for their rice terraces with that being there main crop, they also plant many vegetables such as beans, cabbage, and peas. The definition of religion…

John Fea attempts to answer the question posed in the title of his book, “Why Study History?” He answers this question in eight chapters that talk about the different aspects of history. In chapter one, Fea talks about the role of historians as “revisionists.” Though history can be revealed through simple facts, it is meaningless without a story. Historians try to identify the story behind the facts by following the five C’s: change, context, causality, contingency, and complexity. In chapter…

Amber Ramos History 1000C Prof. Wang 5 December 2015 The Landscape of History How Historians Map The Past The novel The Landscape of History How Historians Map The Past by John Lewis Gaddis touches on subjects such as the idea of history and how historians assume things and about what’s to come in the future. He describes how the only reason that we know things about the future is because of learning from the past historical events. He describes the fact that we can only learn from the…