Economic history

What is the value, if any, of studying history? It is often claimed that the value of studying history is that it allows us to make decisions and predictions regarding the present and future based on the mistakes of the past. Indeed, Edmund Burke stated as early as 1790 that “In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind."1 However, in this essay I will show that this is not necessarily the case

Leopold von Ranke lays down a series of critiques against the philosophy of history. He outlines several flaws in the methodology that he believes prevent it from accurately recreating the historical development of ideas, events, etc. To a large degree, Ranke himself avoids the most fundamental of these flaws while himself attempting to relate the history of European politics from Louis XIV through the fall of Napoleon. However, due largely to the complexity and demandingness of the historical discipline

Writer and philosopher, George Santayana, explained the importance of history best, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This seems to ring true in recent years in our economic and political sectors in America, when we experienced the financial meltdown of the Great Recession. The Great Recession and the Great Depression haunted people with their similarities. Many recognized that both events occurred due to imbalances in the global world economy and an unfettering belief

Artefacts show us another kind of history, and another way of approaching the past. Not only do they frame the way we interact with the world, they also influence the way we think about it as a whole. So when one questions the ownership of these artefacts, they also question the history behind it. Because the history of art is, for the most part, a history of theft; questions over its ownership are bound to ensue. So, how do we decide who owns art, and subsequently, history? Prevailing postcolonial ideologies

This paper looks to define and explore three books which are a crux to various food histories which in the last decade has become a scholarly journey as food history is becoming increasingly studied as a scholarly endeavor by historians where previously it was not seen in such a scholarly light. The three texts which are going to be examined are: Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food by Jeffery M. Pilcher, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture by Rebecca

objective of thoughts. It is good that when accounting for events within the narrative of history that there are multiple witnesses that have or felt the effects of what had particularly happened. History is the objective struggle for solid truth among older and newer perspectives, and with the joint effort of historians with various backgrounds in politics, economics, biology, and other social sciences history itself has been formed into an infallible myth. Truth is term that is universally and

History, the study of the past, can often be approached in a manner that emphasizes trivial facts and influential men; however, history is only effective when one’s study is centered around patterns of the past and grassroots movements. If studied effectively, history is a means of gaining a fuller understanding of the world’s current state, and one’s role in resisting the injustices in their society. One cannot gain the deeper understanding of the world that historical education offers by simply

I. History 1. When studying past events, historians use primary and secondary resources to gather information. A primary resource is a historical piece of evidence, such as an artifact or document, which was made at the time of the event, firsthand. A secondary resource is a document that was created by someone whom was not present at the time of the event, basing their information off of various primary resources. The difference between the two is that with a primary resource the account is more

concept that denotes the power of historians. History is all subjects, it is the math, science, and art of the past this makes history the single most vital subject in all of the world, which makes the irony of the fact that history is not a highly regarded area of study quite sad. What constitutes a historical event? A historical event is one that fundamentally changes the course of the race of the organism that is studying it. I say organism because if history were to be written by a robot, the creation

In 2008, security at an airport in Cairo captures a man attempting to smuggle priceless Egyptian artifacts, including two mummies of a cat and an ibis. (BBC News 2008) In 1999, authorities in Thailand found over 700 artifacts, many of them almost a thousand years old, hidden in a sculptor’s house in a town called Ayutthaya. Many of them are related to Buddhist practices and structures, and are thought to have been stolen from important sites. (Akanond 1999) Even more recently in 2015, due to the