—Inga Clendinnen‚ The History Question "Who owns the past? In a free society‚ everyone. It is a magic pudding belonging to anyone who wants to cut themselves a slice‚ from legend manufacturers through novelists looking for ready-made plots‚ to interest groups out to extend their influence." K. Jenkins – postmodernist * The historian’s purpose is to possible impose pattern on history. * Relativism… is a fact of life. * History is one of a series of discourses about the world. H. White –
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practise essay Compare and contrast Inga Clendinnen’s interpretation of the purpose of history with the views of at least two other historians you have studied. Make a judgement about the value of these viewpoints Clendinnen’s viewpoint on the purpose of history is that history without the reconstruction of mistaken convictions is not true history. Her viewpoints agree with Von Ranke and Bede and disagree with Post Modernism and more closely E.H Carr. Clendinnen believes that “humans learn from
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the complete opposite for the reason of experience. Inga Clendinnen not only studied the Mayan culture and religious practices but the Aztecs and various Latin American cultures. In fact she was a former historian and archeologist. Inga Clendinnen put a picture in my head as a reader of what it was like back in 1517. The images of the surprise attack on the Spanish by the Indians in the beginning of the book were especially vivid. Clendinnen explains ‚ “Then as they drew level with some brush
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Book Review Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan‚ 1517-1570 Inga Clendinnen book‚ Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan‚ 1517-1570 is centered on the Spanish incursion of the Yucatan Peninsula‚ affects on Mayan civilization‚ and the Spanish struggles in controlling these people. In the beginning‚ Clendinnen focus here attention on the initial attempts and then eventual success of the Spaniards to solidify themselves within the Yucatan Peninsula. She goes into a detailed
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Texts used: Clendinnen‚ Inga‚ “Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty”: Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico”‚ representations‚ No 33‚ 1991‚ pp. 65-100. Windschuttle‚ Keith‚ selections from “Omnipotence of signs: Semiotics and the conquest of America”‚ from‚ the Killing of History: how literary critics and social theorists are murdering our past‚ Macleay‚ Paddington‚ 1994. Pp. 39-44‚ 51-59‚ 65-70. Critique: Keith Windshuttle and Inga Clendinnen wrote articles illustrating their points of view about why and
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few hundred men was certainly a gross misjudgment. The conquest of Mexico remains surprising for this reason: it seems puzzling that such a huge conflict could stem from two opposing forces‚ one of which was so terribly ill-prepared for war. As Inga Clendinnen states; "How was it that a motley bunch of Spanish adventurers‚ never numbering much more than four hundred or so‚ was able to defeat an Amerindian military power on its home ground in the space of two years?" The victory of the Spaniards has
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prisoners who gained privileges through their contributions to the Final Solution‚ such as the Sonderkommandos cannot be categorised as totally innocent‚ yet neither should they be morally damned for doing what they had to in order to survive. Inga Clendinnen seeks to use the ‘grey zone’ to complicate the traditional distinctions between perpetrators‚ bystanders and victims. She uses Levi’s memoir as part of her discussion but to some extent
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of their hold over the native population slipping due to the failure of their usurping religion taking hold (Clendinnen 73). Because religion was such a key weapon for the Spanish‚ their response was reactionary and brutal. The Spanish started an inquisition against the Maya for their idolatrous ways‚ which‚ over the course of three months‚ resulted in the death of 158 Mayans (Clendinnen
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Bibliography: Clendinnen‚ Inga. “The Transmission of culture in early modern Europe” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press‚ 1990) Noble‚ Thomas et al. “Western Civilisation Beyond Boundaries Volume 2” (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 2008). Parker
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In searching for a thesis for this paper‚ I was faced with a singular problem. With the ghastly subject of human sacrifice‚ what could possibly be argued and defended? During my reading and research‚ the stark and horrible reality of a butchered‚ battered‚ or burned human being slain in some grisly‚ weird ceremony for some equally weird gargoyle-like idol nearly caused me to choose another subject. Yet‚ years ago‚ when I read Gary Jennings’ novel Aztec‚ I was fascinated with his description of the
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