acknowledged by the Virginia Law School conferees. Introducing the symposium‚ constitutional law professor Mark Graber quotes Richard Hofstadter’s rueful 1968 observation that “Beard’s reputation stands like an imposing ruin in the landscape of American historiography.” He cites historian Gordon S. Wood dismissal of Beard’s economic determinist research method as “so crude that no further time should be spent on it.” Graber states that “no contemporary scholar claims that Beard in 1913 correctly mapped the
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State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan is an interesting historical book that does a great job of giving an in depth look at war techniques used in this time period. It goes over many different aspects that affected warfare at this time‚ besides just military tactics‚ such as social structure‚ government set up‚ and innovations and technology that were emerging. The author attempts to break down many myths there are about samurai warfare at this time which is important for historians
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WSCrusades Code:79664775 | Time remaining: 2 days 5 hours 32 minutes Compensation: | $3.60 / Page | Total: | $14.40 | Number of pages: | 4 (Double Spaced) | Number of sources: | 3 | Deadline: December 13 22:25 Order type: | Essay | Category: | History | Academic level: | Undergraduate | Style: | MLA | | Preparing | Preferred language style: English (U.S.) First Crusade: My professor assign us to do an essay and he gave us two statements that we have to argue in
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Agency and Identity: Women in Early America The historiography of gender in American is a rich and diverse field that has made its presence felt throughout the discipline of history. Gender historians have found bountiful ground in the shifting social and economic structures of eighteenth and Nineteenth century North America‚ as well as the surrounding regions. The multi-national and multi-ethnic nature of the region has led to a multitude of new investigations on the roles played by gender and identity
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In 1940‚ the United States began funding research and engineering for the construction of what would become one of the most powerful weapons of the era. What was known as the “Manhattan Project” had ultimately created the first atomic bomb in the history of the world. On August 6th‚ 1945‚ the United States Air Force dropped this bomb on Hiroshima‚ Japan. The initial impact of the bomb killed an estimated 53 percent of the population instantly. Many other people died from burns‚ injuries‚ and falling
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In The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II‚ 19-34. New York: Basic Books‚ 1997. http://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cdocument%7C2558030. Fogel‚ Joshua A. The Nanjing Massacre in history and historiography‚ 136. Berkeley: University of California Press‚ 2002. Yamamoto‚ Masahiro. "Conclusion." In Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity‚ 282-90. Westport‚ CT: Praeger Publishers‚ 2000. http://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cdocument%7C2783874
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A review of A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials‚ by Laurie Winn Carlson‚ Ivan R. Dee‚ Chicago‚ 2000; 224 pp. $14.95 Paperback. ISBN: 1-566633095 A FEVER IN SALEM POSITS A biological cause for the early modem witchcraft epidemic‚ which resulted in the hanging of 19 people in Salem‚ MA‚ in 1692. Witchcraft persecution‚ Laurie Carlson writes‚ arose because of the strange behavior of the supposedly bewitched accusers. She concludes that the cause was a disease unrecognizable
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Prince Klemens von Metternich: His Ideology‚ his Role in History‚ and the Stories we Tell. Metternich was an extremely intelligent man who turned his conservative beliefs into international policy. Metternich was a confident leader who put little faith in popular opinion or sentiment because he believed that the common man was too fickle in his loyalties and too inept to understand the magnitude of foreign policy. He was a loyal "servant" to the Austrian Emperor‚ even though Metternich was the
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Myths Laid to Rest: Death‚ Burial‚ and Memory in the American South The performance of distinctive rituals associated with the burial of the dead establishes a basis for the creation not only of a cultural identity‚ but also of communal memory. For the enslaved population in the antebellum South‚ the burial of fellow slaves provided a means of cultural expression. Nonetheless‚ funeral services for deceased slaves created a source of contention between slaves and slave owners—not simply because
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Chen Kaige’s Farewell‚ My Concubine renders the complex‚ tumultuous historical events of twentieth century China on an epic‚ yet intimate and personal scale. Chen foregrounds his cast‚ centered on the love triangle among two Peking Opera performers and a prostitute‚ against a backdrop of dramatic and changing historical circumstances in China. The events depicted include the end of the “Warlord period‚” the Sino-Japanese War and the period of Japanese Occupation of China‚ the post-war reconsolidation
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