Historiography Essay Examples

When we approach the study of the past, it is a common place to consider a problem of the discipline called history: a word that designates two different things. On one hand it is the reality in which man is inserted, and on the other it is the knowledge and study of situations and events…

The most important element of postmodernism as it came to effect historiography, was its emphasis on language. Postmodern theory informs us that all historians have are “texts” whose relationship to the past “can never be known.” This assertion that a text is never fixed or fully knowable lead to what was essentially a “linguistic turn”…

Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s, Silencing The Past: Power and the Production of History is a remarkable work that proves how history is not fixed and that historical facts are not sitting waiting to be found rather, they only exists in relation to the present because we can only know and understand the past from the position we…

Marks calls the agricultural world prior to 1400, “the biological old regime.” Furthermore he points out that, “the 380 million people living in 1400 were not uniformly distributed across the face of the Earth, but rather clustered in a very few pockets of much higher density.” In examining the evolution of humankind from hunter-gatherers to…

This research also stands as an attempt not only to understand and analyze boarding school history and how it fit a larger pattern of internal imperialism, but also how the subjects of such policy and practice fit themselves into the changing world thrust upon them. Recent scholarship in African American history, for example, has sought…

War, regardless of any feeling about it by a particular society at any particular time, has been woven into the fabric of society from seemingly time immemorial. This interconnected nature has also meant that war is inevitably political. This can be seen, for example, in the foundation of Rome in the story of Romulus and…