Economic history

address not only the "political, diplomatic, and military events" but also "social, cultural, and economic events and currents" (Irwin Unger, preface xiv). He attempts to include all human aspects of these events by integrating women and

of American History The world is full of rich culture, diversity and experiences unique to each individual. When determining the validity of historic accounts we must factor in that particular historian’s point of view, which should be characterized by ethnicity, idealogy, theoretical or methodological preference. With these factors views of the past often vary from person to person. In this essay I will be discussing the four different stages that shaped the writing of American history over the last

My purpose here is to provide a brief history of the critical response to East of Eden, to outline the major patterns and trends in our perception of what Steinbeck thought was the most important work of his career.... But the conception of "history" involved in this undertaking is far more problematic than it appears on the surface, for it assumes that there are discernible, empirical "facts" which exist in an unchanging reality. It assumes that the critic/historian finds the truth revealed in these

Design history provides a self-reflexive awareness of the context in which contemporary practitioners operate, revealing the ways broader social forces influence designers and create the paradigms within which they work. This kind of deep self-reflection, common amongst the humanities and social sciences is still relatively lacking within design which, as argued in Clive Dilnot’s seminal essay “The State of Design History,” has not “pursued the historical, cultural or philosophical-analytical study

context of prior history because it reveals who we are in relation to other people, cultures, and countries. Exploring the history of different peoples and cultures experiences provides a clearer picture of their views, beliefs, feelings, and opinions. History is a story told from a political and educational style. Learning how the past shaped a country and the leaders that had a part in it helps us understand that country’s ways and interactions with other countries. The study of history influences our

History as a discipline, as well as an important part of the human experience, has an incredible capacity to change over time. The growth of social history over political history that took off during the 1960’s and 1970’s brought more emphasis to areas such as women’s history as well as other disciplines that had previously been brushed aside. The Revolutionary period of history brings much interest not just because of the great political and social changes that came from it, but also because of

History is something we constantly refer to progress ourselves as humans, we learn from our mistakes and continue to strive from our successes. But who is to say what is a horrible mistake or a courageous act of valor? That which was documented about what happened so long ago, was done by a person who spread the story or wrote it down from their perspective. Howard Zinn’s argument that there is no such thing as impartial history clearly illustrates that when history is recorded there

Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’ is a very astonishing novel which reveals the secrets about the true history of the human mankind. I came away impressed by its success in compressing 13,000 years of human history into a lucid and compelling explanation of why the rate of socio-economic development varied so significantly on different continents, without resorting to culturalist or racialist arguments. Jared Diamond succeeds spectacularly at proving why Eurasia had become by 1500 AD (the

Did Enlightenment historiography neglect history? Arthur Marwick in his Fundamentals of History suggests that when studying history it is important that there is a distinction made between History and The Past, the former referring to the knowledge produced by historians about the past together with the teaching of that knowledge. Marwick states that the latter is just ‘everything that actually happened, whether known, or written, about by historians or not’. Enlightenment historiography is particularly

are, where we came from, why and how all that came about, we must study history. In studying history we can form an idea about our origin. Humans create history which over time has become a mass of data and explanations. In learning how to sort, analyze and assess this data we develop an understanding of how this evidence leads us in determining how societies before us developed and changed or did not change and why. History allows us to better ourselves by allowing us to develop a moral sense