Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work. The word literature literally means: "things made from letters". Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose. Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction)‚ a category that may also include polemical works‚ biographies‚ and reflective essays‚ or it may consist of texts based on imagination (such
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terms with the American colonists‚ disagreements and defiance‚ aftershock‚ and remnants of the wars and events that had led to war between these three parties; Seminole‚ Timucua‚ and colonist. The third piece is a historiography titled‚ “From Savages to Sovereigns: A General Historiography of American Indian History‚” written by Jeffrey P. Shepherd‚ Ph.D. It looks at the field of Native American History
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and middle-class Northern women during the Civil War‚ there has been relatively little research on the working-class‚ rural‚ or African American women in the North. In her book‚ Army at Home‚ Giesberg exposes the shortcomings of this traditional historiography. Through the examination of letters‚ petitions‚ and lawsuits Giesberg is able to capture the stories of these marginalized Northern women while providing readers with a thematic‚ rather than chronological‚ approach in
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In‚ “Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination‚” Robert Abzug sets out to explain the reform movements in America from the Revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century. Many historians have written about antebellum reform before‚ but in this book Abzug takes a different approach‚ where he treats antebellum reform as religious movements with primarily religious concerns and origins. While “Cosmos Crumbling” has a great premise‚ it can sometimes be hard to follow Abzug’s
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ROBERT DARNTON’S ASSIGNMENT 1. What does Darnton make of a police inspector’s interest in Enlightenment philosophers? Robert Darnton’s book deals with the Enlightenment France and the particular process of historiography‚ in his search to find out the way French lived in the 18th century. He takes particular incidents and primary documents in French history and exercises them duly to place them in the deeper themes of how the French people lived their lives. However‚ his book also concentrates
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debate was between the ‘traditionalists’ or ‘orthodox’ historians and the ‘revisionists’. This was followed by an attempt to produce a synthesis of their arguments now generally known as ‘post-revisionism’. These various attempts to revise the historiography of the Cold War have largely resulted from new sources becoming available to each succeeding school of thought. The traditionalists were dependent on unclassified material (much of official archive still being classified in the first decade
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Problems and Issues in the Philippine Educational System Notes About the Problems and Issues in the Philippine Educational System: A Critical Discourse by Prof. John N. Ponsaran Colonial historiography. Most of the past and present teachers‚ book authors‚ and Social Studies consultants give heavier premium to the history of the colonizers in the Philippines‚ and not to the history of Filipinos. Mostly‚ this has been the case in the teaching of History subjects from the elementary to tertiary
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History and Systems of Psychology Study Guide: Chapters 1-3 Chapter One 1. Discuss the development of modern psychology. 2. Define historiography. Explain the reasons it is difficult to fully and accurately reconstruct psychology’s past. 3. Name two contextual forces in psychology and explain how these forces have influenced psychology’s past and present. 4. Compare and contrast personalistic theory and naturalistic theory. 5. Define and provide examples of the following terms: zeitgeist
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and Britain‚ where the project of women’s history was born out of their respective women’s movements. Canadian women’s history has always existed at the crossroads‚ and in dialogue with‚ this Anglo-American tradition. While their respective historiographies can be relevant‚ it also can be hegemonic; consequently‚ we must question the conclusions and historiographical certainties in this tradition as there could be Canadian exceptions to their conclusions. Canadian women’s history does have its
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In Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of Global Age‚ Christopher McKnight Nichols challenged traditional historiography regarding the emergence of isolationism in the United States which argues that the era after World War I provided the catalyst for Americans to question global interaction‚ especially militarily. However‚ the author positions the concept of isolationism within its proper framework; advocates of isolation did not desire complete withdrawal from the rest of the world but instead
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