Shijing or Book of Songs. Over a long period‚ the poetry of popular pre-literate balladry and song interpenetrated and eventually influenced poetry in the literary medium. In ancient China‚ early literature was primarily focused on philosophy‚ historiography‚ military science‚ agriculture‚ and poetry. China‚ the origin of modern paper making and woodblock printing‚ produced
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Additionally‚ it depends on the motif of power and on the theory that history is the history of class struggle. This is an idea taking from Marxism‚ and the first kind of approach to history: that it is cyclical. Reuben Abel goes on by stating that historiographies should be appraised and assessed‚ but that there is no crucial experiment that can test the validity of a theory of history. Abel’s claim that “History is far from being exclusively scientific or factual; it is also a larger part creative” is
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Famous French Enlightenment writer and historian Voltaire was born Francois Marie Arouet into a Parisian middle class family in 1694. Voltaire was the youngest of five children to parents‚ François Arouet and Marie Marguerite d’Aumart. After his mother’s death at the age of seven; Voltaire’s father‚ a high-profile lawyer sent him to the infamous Paris boarding school Louis-le-grand. The school was run by Jesuit priests that lent him a background in early Greek and Latin‚ while also providing him
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The ambiguities continue beyond narratives and historiography though. The political lives of aristocratic women were inherently complex and finding ways to discuss their actions is very difficult. Aristocratic women were not limited in the way that women of the lower classes were; they could interact with politics in inherently female ways without much resistance. As already mentioned‚ letter writing was one of their main forms of power‚ along with canvassing and informal discussion on behalf of
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Ancient_Near_Eastern_Thought_and_the_Old_Testament_.docFileViewHelp Comparative studies abound in our field. Discussions of the “Bible and‚” focusing on a particular theme or text from the ancient Near Eastern or Mediterranean world‚ are commonplace. What is unusual is a one-volume‚ comprehensive treatment of how the Hebrew Bible participates in and differs from the cultures of the ancient Near East. Drawing from a wide array of scholarship on the textual remains of the ancient Near East
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Who was to blame for the Cold War The USSR or the USA? Who was to Blame? Historians have changed their views about who was to blame for the cold war over the years. Soviet Historians: They blamed to the United States. The Traditionalits: They blamed to the USSR for the Cold War and its attempt to impose its ideology on the of the world Until the 1960s‚ most historians followed the official government line – that the Cold War was the direct result of Stalin’s aggressive Soviet expansionism
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The Sook Ching‚ meaning a purge through cleansing‚ was a massacre that happened when Britain surrendered Singapore to Japan‚ from February 18 to March 4 of 1942. Chinese males aged 18 to 50 were called to screening centers to be examined by Japanese soldiers. If they were deemed “anti-Japanese‚” they would be executed. While this massacre is not as well-known as other historical events‚ there is still debate on some of the causes. One idea that is widely disagreed on is that the Chinese were passing
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English conservatism‚ which was called Toryism‚ emerged during the Restoration (1660–1688). It supported a hierarchical society with a monarch who ruled by divine right. However the Glorious Revolution (1688 ‚ which established constitutional government‚ led to a reformulation of Toryism which now considered sovereignty vested in the three estates of Crown‚ Lords‚ and Commons.[7])‚ Conservatism developed in Restoration England from royalism. Royalists supported absolute monarchy‚ arguing that
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between the 1880s and 1980s‚ the changing interpretations of Bismarck can be illuminated and assessed. Historiographical debate of Bismarck’s impact upon Germany began almost immediately following his rise to prominence‚ as the primary initial historiography within Germany demanded a “strong man”[1]‚ “who would cut the Gordian knot of nationalistic aspirations”.[2] Thus‚ German historians and the public throughout the 1850s and 1860s desired Bismarck to be portrayed as a benefactor to the German society;
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something new‚ an act that could not be done by simply recounting the past. Because of Tocqueville’s desire to analyse history further than stating events‚ his work is almost invaluable to historians today‚ as it is one of the earlier pieces of historiography which holds the author’s subjectivity inside it‚ which in itself is an element of history that can be analysed further. Not only does Tocqueville describe the effects of the French Revolution on French society‚ he does so from a French perspective
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