Historical Literature Essay Examples and Topics

There is surprisingly little literature pertaining to the subject of the first years after the end of the war. As the name of the chapter suggests, it addresses the issue of vengeance that happened in [...]

Nevertheless, the streaming growth of the industrial revolution of the 19th century brought some significant changes to the understanding of social inequalities."The Semplica-Girl Diaries" is one of the chapters from the diary called Tenth of [...]

The author of The Pillow Book is Sei Shonagon, a Japanese writer who served as a court lady to the Japanese empress in the 1000s. Sei Shonagon was a part of the upper class, which [...]

However, he does so not with the aim of making the readers' blood run cold because of the monstrous details of the ghosts' past.*In his book, Dickey is trying to depict the American history, society, [...]

This is why some of Hu's actions seem irrational and bizarre not only to Europeans and Foucquet but to the readers as well.

However, the book shows that even under the mask of one of the cruelest people in the world, there is a boy with his own dreams and intentions to have a happy life.

For instance, in the chapter called "The Drowned and the Saved", the author only describes the setting and does not allow making any particular conclusions about his position, and the reader has to interpret the [...]

The purpose of this paper is to review the assigned selections of Lepore's book and discuss the importance of the theme of violence in this reading.

The writer was ready to forget his lowly position in the society and narrate to the court how the emperor had pure intentions.

In his description of the difficulties that the farmers and the workers were facing, Kester also provides a certain justification for the revolt.

The purpose of this critical analysis is to explore the author's description of the targeted characters in the book. The emphasis of the book is that the brothers were always determined, focused, and intelligent.

Anna portrays historical accuracy in her unbiased account of the father, and her information about her background contributes to the accounts of the Byzantium events, highlighting to the readers the Byzantine way of life.

He tries to put into account all the activities of the surgeons, the challenges and achievements, and even highlight the specific roles of the members of the "Third Auxiliary" played during the Second World War.

In his book, The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations, Edward Hallett Carr studies the political and economic factors that predisposed the creation of the conflict, at the same [...]

The monumental work of Herodotus, the Greek historian, titled The Histories, is considered to be one of the founding historical works in the world.

The purpose of this paper is to dwell upon the dynamics of humanization and dehumanization of people observed in the book by Levi and discuss the overall impressions of the story.

However, the interpretations of slavery and obligation to pay the rent are not mutually exclusive, because the obligation to pay the rent forces humans to become slaves and have to provide their bodies for incubating [...]

The short story that is found in the second chapter of the book describes a significant flowering of the seeds of individualism and corrupt materialism that occur in Plutoria Avenue in a large city in [...]

Through numerous examples of events happening in many countries after the end of the war, Ian explains to us that the changes in socio-political systems were made by the people who tried to make the [...]

Driven by the promise of his father, Jakob, to be reunited after the war, the main character of the story finds it indispensable to rely on God, for only He is able to lead the [...]

She is also courageous because she had to hide in the other family, away from her parents. She was brave when she encountered the Nazis in the Annemarie's apartment and pretended her elder sister.

The theme of the father is firmly connected to the central theme of war in the book: the young boy, the main character of this true story, treasures his family more than anything in the [...]

According to Marcum and Skarbek, the slavery period in the United States occurred from the 16th to the 19th century. In reference to Aptheker, the majority of the slaves lived in poor and inaccessible areas.

On the other hand, it is important to understand that a number of people are aware of the plot and the worth of the story, and it is a real challenge to prove the chosen [...]

The author uses the contrast between a peaceful life of the veteran and his experience as a soldier to highlight the senselessness and cruelty of war.

Beckerman's purpose in the book is to narrate the fight for freedom of Russian Jews from the perspective of individuals that formed the movement.

Thomas More's "Utopia," also known as "On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia," and Michel de Montaigne's essay "Of Cannibals" are two of the more prominent works on [...]

The natural experiences of growing up are changed and twisted by the war and its horrors, but the specific developments, their perceptions, and impacts are affected by the children's personalities and circumstances of their lives, [...]

The character traits of the slaveholders are brought out by the use of the word nigger and the emphasis on ignorance as a weapon against the empowerment of the blacks.

In its turn, this allows us to refer to The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa as a book of not only a great literary, but also a philosophical value, [...]

The provided passage is taken from Mein Kampf, the most known work of Adolf Hitler, the infamous leader of the NSDAP since 1921 and the F hrer of Nazi Germany in 1934-1945.

In addition, the essay presents the relevance of the topic in the history of ancient and modern Japan and annotations of the sources accessed.

The success of an author depends on how well he attracts the reader to the point that the reader is motivated to read the next available book that the author publishes.

The author uses the phrase 'to live in stone' to signify the magnitude of Obasan's silence. In the course of the unfolding story, Naomi is torn between adopting Obasan's silence and embracing Aunt Emily's articulacy.

In the article, the author compares the suffering of the Native Americans under the European colonizers with the suffering of the Palestinians under the European Zionist colonizers.

The novel, Ragtime, underscores the theme of change through the main characters by being accurate about the history of the period.

The details she provides about various events and the manner in which she chooses her words clearly points out that this is not a work of fiction.

The author of this novel seeks to highlight the futility of the American War and the hypocrisy of the Vietnamese government.

The story is written in the first person and the other describes the events as the witness and participant of that horror.

This book is Rigoberta's memoir and talks about the experiences of a majority of the Indian communities living in Latin America at the time of the Civil War through the lenses of Rigoberta Menchu.

However, in the pursuit of a better future, the Asian community faced significant resistance on the part of the residents. In the memoir, the author focuses on the eternal confrontation between various cultures leading to [...]

Thus, the rise of colonialism in the second half of the 19th century is linked to the growth of capitalism in Europe.

In the fourth essay, Onnekink explores The Last War of Religion: the Dutch and the Nine Years' War. War and religion do not fit well in the contents of the book.

In the fifth chapter, for instance, the author notes that he was moved to Baltimore, Maryland, something that played a critical role in transforming his life since he faced the realities of slavery.

Since the goal of the author is to reveal the darker side of North Korea, Demick specifically drew her interviewees from Chongjin, which is one of the largest towns in North Korea whose residents have [...]

From this point, during the first stage of the fight, Brown followed the strategy of avoiding the risk in order to save the lives of the crew members, but then he accepted the risk.

Throughout the chapters, Chua examines the most dominant cultures in history starting with the traditional empires of Persia and China and later the recent hyperpowers of the United States and England.

In the narration of his experience during the battle, he recounts the role of Captain Andrew Haldane, the commanding officer of King Company, during the Peleliu battle.

The book, being very sincere and straightforward, gives us one of the brightest and most detailed pictures about the horrors of the biggest military conflict in human history.

The author enlightens the reader about the true and fictional stories of that time, points out the stereotypes and realities."Revolutionary Mothers" by Berkin demonstrates the silent, yet fierce power of women during the revolution, their [...]

The official name of Burma is the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Burma is the largest ethnic group in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

That is why, the United States' reaction to surprise violent attacks connected with the Cold War issues or the problem of 11 September 2001 in the form of acts to improve national security strategies is [...]

Realism points out that power is based on characteristics that can be tangible or intangible, and can emanate from the use of the armed forces, level of income, and the size of a state.

These elements will be considered one at a time in a bid to prove the centrality of place for objective criticism of the novel Coming to Birth which will serve as my reference for the [...]

The book The Dragon's Village by Yuan-Tsun Chen focuses on the story of a young girl Ling-Ling who faces the complexities of life in the countryside and decides to take an active part into the [...]

The birthday of Ximen Qing is to start the following day to which he invites Pan Jinlian and Wu Song to a night the two will never forget.Int.

The plot attests at how people undergo a sort of rite of passage in order to be accepted by society, the rite exemplifies itself as a formal admission to a certain way of life of [...]

Nietzsche argues that the soul of the last man is damned because he is unable to attain the set of the moral ideals set by the law.

The theorized analysis of desire in different works of literature was first witnessed in the sixteenth century. The 16th century literature centered on the theme of desire, and the most written desire was ideal love.

The article has a systemic representation of the events that occurred in the field of literature. The author points out that location of Bohemia in Czech was described in literature.

Prior to the completion of the letter, the shop was reduced down to ashes together with Cecil, the person who fetched her to Jamaica, mistreated her sexually and who assisted her in putting up the [...]

She also makes her decision to move to South Vietnam because of her spirited heart of humanity, love, longing for the end of the war and the sufferings subjected to the citizens of Vietnam.

At a personal level in the life of a Christian, engaging in war or acts of violence in order to resolve emerging conflicts is not part of the biblical doctrine.

Whether it is the fact that the author leads the reader beyond the boundaries of the socially acceptable or makes a cautious warming about the threats that await for the reader in the craziest of [...]

The article "Gender, Race, and the Regulation of Native Identity in Canada and the United States: An Overview" by Bonita Lawrence talks about the Native people, the way the laws and relationships between the modern [...]

Through the humor and empathy implemented in the novel, the characters that embody two Nazi soldiers are given human faces instead of the sole image of a murderer.

The three postulations have been nullified in the Malleus Maleficarum as none of them adequately explains the effects of the devil and witches.

When Machiavelli was writing his story, he assumed that princes who rule all the states in the West have a similar method of governance.

While the focus of the book was the Kapyong battle, a tiny collection of hills to the Northeastern part of Seoul, Bjarnason deemed it necessary to explain the circumstances that triggered Canada's involvement in the [...]

From the various field notes on the different parts of the North where he travelled, the reader gets the different aspects of the region and its people.

With the most subtle hints and the most picturesque descriptions he exposes the life of the ordinary people to the eyes of the audience, making the readers live in China fro a while.

Children literature deserves lots of attention; it provides the reader with an opportunity to investigate the worlds of different people, analyze oneself, and comprehend each piece of information because of such features as a friendly [...]

With time, Bulgakov's satire turned out to be more and more dramatic, pointing out the shortages of technology and society development."The first of the various levels on which the novel's satire functions is that of [...]

In the wake of the strong-held belief that Jews were responsible for the fall of German Empire, there was massive deployment of police officers to clear Jews from ghettos and exterminate them.

The third episode from the novel to support that Yu Hua is not biased against the nationalist period is that the civil war ended in the victory of the communist ideology.

The book's chapters, the monogram, and the conclusion do not explain the author's central argument. In this book, Clendinnen attempts to explain Landa's actions when he championed for the rights of the Maya people and [...]

That is to say, indigenous literature is communal since it attempts to heal psychological wounds caused among the natives in the process of colonization, and the main goal of communalism is to heal native communities [...]

The author maintains that the events that transpire in his novel do not necessarily reflect the history of Czechoslovak. Therefore, the circumstances faced by most of the characters in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" coincide [...]

Is it a result of the Nazis' brutal actions or the consequences of the development of racism in the history of the Western civilization?

The author chose one of the most significant periods in the history of humanity. In fact, even the story of Cosimo's family is a kind of reflection of the world history.

The purpose of this book is to bring out the story of the Mexican people before the invasion by the Spaniards.

In this autobiography, Equiano is very definite in his mission to convince his readers of the existence of the slave trade in the 17th century, including the predicament and lifestyle of most of the slaves.

However, it is important to remember that D az is telling a story about crimes and violence, he highlights the life of people who live in different world, e.g.in the world of gangsters, finally, he [...]

In the work of Jewish writers Ruth Almog and David Fogel the themes of liberation and oppression take the forefront. As an oppressed child, the daughter of immigrants whose life has already been touched by [...]

This is a story written down by Voltaire whose main motive of writing was to capture and ridicule the political inclinations of the time, illustrating the political and philosophical controversies of the eighteenth century.

Geoffrey Chaucer has also been able to write quite a good number of poems such as The Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls and The Legend of Good Women.

The kite runner and the kite fighter restrict the movement of the kite in order for it to move in an orderly manner.

In the story, Huong becomes a refuge because of war in Vietnam and therefore finds herself in Australia as her second home.

In fact, each person is a kind of cog in a certain machine; and I would like to believe that the machine that influences my personal life and depicts my role in it is all [...]

While he provides a bare account of development, he is not to be considered pessimistic but instead aims to make people aware of the facts of development motives, especially by the western countries.

The book critically acclaims the role of American bombers in post WWII time when the allied forces were getting apart because of the political differences that were beginning to showcase. The problem was the food [...]