Introduction Philips (2005, pp.16-17) claims that “the authority vested in the word of the dominating view of Australian history is deemed to be unchallengeable, not because it is beyond question, but simply because it has been reinforced by repetition and written text over the centuries”. Despite the fact that historical texts have been repeated and re-written for centuries, through historiography, new historical understandings, historical inquiry, and critical evaluations of historical events being developed, Australian history can be challenged. The Australian...
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Do you think Carlo Ginzburg’s idea of micro-history also contributes to looking at everyday life in history? During the period between the two world wars, there was a radical departure from the traditional mainstream historiography which mainly focused on high-level politics and diplomacy, warfare, and the lives of great statesmen. On the contrary, they tried to focus on the lives and struggles of ordinary people, their popular forms of protest, their everyday activities, as well as attitudes, beliefs, practices, and...
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Only eleven days after the new year celebration around the world in 2019, a girl from Saudi “escaped” from her family. She locked herself in a Bangkok airport hotel room since the Thailand government “confiscated her passport and were holding her Sunday…”, according to the CTV news published on January 6 by Grant Peck and Aya Batrawy. This news drew attention from the public all around the world since fleeing means a violation of a series of laws in Saudi....
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Drawing on Hayden White’s concept of historiophoty critically examine the role and impact of film in processes of historical understanding. Hayden White identifies ‘historiophoty’ as “the representation of history and our thought about it in visual images and filmic discourse” (1988: 1193) and the following essay will critically examine the ways in which film impacts processes of historical understanding. After all, the media in general has exceeded expectations and plays a fundamental role in shaping society’s basic comprehension of the...
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Course Description: In this course, students will break down the Spanish Civil War into two main sections. The first section will give students a general overview and fundamental understanding of the Spanish Civil War. The second section of this course will invite students to take a deeper analysis and examination of multiple participants in the conflict. Proposal: The adage that history is written by the victors is often used, but never has it been less correct than in the case...
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Abstract History writing or Historiography is a study of historical writings means the art of writing history or the history of history. like many other disciplines, it was begun in the late 18th century. However, history writing is as old as humankind. Certainly, historians of the ancient past had a sense of history writing of their precursors. Introduction The term ‘history’ is derived from the Greek word ‘Istoria’ meaning inquiry, research, exploration, investigation, or information, and in the broad sense...
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Slavery in the colonies relied on the notion that the mother passed down the legal condition of enslavement. From the beginning of the colonization of the Caribbean sometime in the 15th century, it was expected that enslaved women gave birth to enslaved children. This was later cemented into the common law of the roman code Partus Sequitur Ventrem, a Latin translation of ‘offspring follows belly,’ that legally stated any child born to an enslaved woman was born into slavery, regardless...
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Into History is mutable; all historians are, despite attempts to avoid it, a product of their own historical contexts. So since the beginning of the study of history, there have always been different theories and methods used to approach it. Moreover, as social and cultural beliefs have changed, these theories and methodologies have changed as well. The last two hundred years especially have seen a significant increase in changing ideas, views of history, and techniques used to approach it, which...
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Following on from this examination of PTSD and its impact on the reliable narrator, this dissertation will now interrogate other constraints placed on the accurate representation of women`s Holocaust experiences. In the 1960s and 1970s, the narratives of women which dominated historiography largely focused upon the accounts of resistance fighters or otherwise those considered heroic women. It is important to mention that I will not be discrediting the validity and importance of these experiences but instead questioning why these were...
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In order to assess the validity of the name of something, one must first look at what the given definition in context to the name actually is. And so, before this essay begins, one must look at what the given definition of the term must include in order to assess the validity of its title. With a name such as the ‘Silk Roads’ one must present an inclusive and broad definition that takes into account all of the routes, to...
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History, [is] a distillation of rumor”, a concoction diluted by the distortionist propensity of politics. Contemporary efforts in historiography reflect the growing democratization of history as it is propelled from the exclusivity of academia to the untamed depths of the public domain. Compounded by the already vague and multi-faceted nature of the historical discipline, the entwinement of politics and historiography has inexorably undermined the modern historian’s quest for truth and veracity. Thus, it seems that objectivity and non-partisanship are no...
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How did twentieth-century historians interpret the period known as the Great Famine? The history of any nation is an integral part of establishing sovereignty and recognition on a global scale. Certain events or individuals dominate these narratives and can be based on triumph or atrocity. As such, the period of the 1840s has become a key feature in what could be called the ‘Irish Story’. It was a period of widespread hunger and disease, with the obvious catalyst lying in...
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Historiography refers to looking back on the historical writings and research of the Philippine Archipelago throughout Luzon to Mindanao during the Spanish period. Our historian's perspective mainly focuses on Filipino viewpoints through time. They expand their knowledge and provide the pillars of historical research and new interpretations of traditional literacy. The question wants to foresee the development of Philippine Historiography from the Pre-colonial to the Post-colonial period. In the pre-colonial era, the information are limited due to the lack of...
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When asking a question like, “Is history political?” it can be quite easy to simply say: yes. History is political. There’s ample evidence to prove it. Any layperson would know that history comprises of the rulers, governments, and wars of the past. Undoubtedly, the political narrative of the entire human race. Even in the present day, history is often used politically. Whether it be how Europeans claim the history of the Greeks or the Bengali Brahmins claim the history of...
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With “history” being an incredibly personal term, it’s incorrect to assume that there is a clear-cut difference between “history” and “historiography”. Ford’s maxim that ‘history is bunk’ (Ford, 1916), juxtaposed with Porter’s aphorism viewing history as an important process (Porter, 1975), highlights that defining “history” cannot be abridged to an orderly solution. Schinkel offers “historiography” as the process of writing “history” (Schinkel, 2004), and can therefore be seen as a more subjective concept than “history”; this implies “history” is objective....
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History is the study of change over time, and it covers all aspects of human society. Politician,Social, economic, scientific, technological, medical, cultural, intellectual, religious and military. The developments are all part of history. Professional historians usually specialize in a particular aspect of History, a specific time period, a specific approach to a date or a specific geographic area. The word 'history' has many meanings. It can mean everything that happened in the past. This isn't very useful, because until we...
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