critical review
History is important.
If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And ifyou were
born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything,
and you have no way of checking up on it.”
― Howard Zinn
― Howard Zinn
America
is a country that is very influential on the progress of other countries around
the world . Can be regarded as its central or industrial activities .the Countries often called Uncle Sam 's country must
pass through a long period before becoming one of the developed countries .
Land covers an area of 42,188,000 km / This facet was discovered by one of
the inventors known by his findings . He is the Christopher colombus . The news for this he is known as the
inventor of the Americas . on the basis of my big curiosity , I tried to do
research using data taken from high school students majoring ips . In the
research , I use the method of taking the most votes and using the following
questions : "Do you think Christopher colombus it was a discoverer of the
United States or not ? After the results were collected 26 from 39 the number
of students answered " yes " , 7 students answered no , and the rest
answered " do not know " . From a little research it can be concluded
that as long as they know that the inventor of the American continent was
Christopher colombus . I wonder who is wrong in teaching a history lesson , it could be because the history teacher who
did not want to know the real historical and just swallow it away or only do
they know ? Waalahualambisowaf . And now little by little we began know the
real history by Howard Zinn entitled speaking the truth the power of books . In
the article , he quotes a bit about the inventor of the Americas of the
contents as follows : " Columbus the hero , the great Discoverer Columbus
, Columbus the pious Bible reader . To read about Columbus as a murderer , a
torturer , a kidnapper , a mutilator of native people , a hypocrite , a greedy
man looking for gold , willing to kill people and mutilate people - it was
shocking . " Words taken from the book entitled A people's History of the
United States drew criticism from people all over the world are proof he said
" When my book , A people's History of the United States came out , I
began to get mail from around the country . I found that most of the mail dealt
with the first chapter of the book , the which of course made me very
suspicious " . On that basis , here I am trying to uncover who the
colombus and some other facts that were never
delivered by Howard Zinn in some of his writings.
Summary
In his work entitled A People's History of the United States , Howard Zinn wrote a few things about the inventor of the Americas . The first , Zinn informed that most colombus want it is to find out the existence of gold . Columbus persuaded the king and queen of Spain to finance an expedition to the lands , the wealth , he expected to be available on the other side of the Atlantic - the Indies and Asia , which has the result of gold and spices were quite abundant . Second , Zinn said that Columbus would never have made it to Asia , which was thousands of miles farther than that calculated , imagining a smaller world . As for the latter , Zinn wrote that the first person who saw the land should get an annual pension of 10,000 Maravedis to support life , but Rodrigo who was the first to see the ground and never got Columbus claimed he had seen a light the evening before.
In his work entitled A People's History of the United States , Howard Zinn wrote a few things about the inventor of the Americas . The first , Zinn informed that most colombus want it is to find out the existence of gold . Columbus persuaded the king and queen of Spain to finance an expedition to the lands , the wealth , he expected to be available on the other side of the Atlantic - the Indies and Asia , which has the result of gold and spices were quite abundant . Second , Zinn said that Columbus would never have made it to Asia , which was thousands of miles farther than that calculated , imagining a smaller world . As for the latter , Zinn wrote that the first person who saw the land should get an annual pension of 10,000 Maravedis to support life , but Rodrigo who was the first to see the ground and never got Columbus claimed he had seen a light the evening before.
Critique
There
are three points on Columbus that are neglected in Zinn 's article . First ,
Zinn did not actually read the captain's log . He red a translation of a
partial copy of the log that Bartolomé Las Casas made in the 1530s . Century
ago lost the original log . For centuries there was a lot of portraits taken of
Columbus , and they all look different because no one really knows what it
looks like Columbus . He may not have a portrait made while still alive .
Columbus and the birth year of birth has survived controversy . The standard
view is that Columbus was born in Genoa , part of today's Italy , around 1451 ,
give or take a year , but there is the argument that Columbus was Spanish ,
Portuguese , Jewish , and several other European countries . in a book entitled
A People's History of the United States It may be unfair to expose to critical
scrutiny of a work patched together from secondary sources , widely used
uncritically ( Jennings , Williams ) , others broken for material torn out of
context ( Young , Pike ) . Every careful reader will notice that Zinn was a
foreigner evidence bearing on the people about whom he intended to write . But
only a critic who knows the source device will recognize the complex array of
misleading its pages . On the other hand , the book is easy to eliminate anything
that does not fit their main thesis . It would be a mistake , however , to
regard Zinn just as anti - American . Brendan Behan once observed that whoever
hated America hated mankind , and hatred of the human race is the dominant tone
of Zinn 's book.
Second
, a political science professor at Boston University did not reveal who the
actual inventor . One source said that a copy of the 600 year old map found in
a flea bookstore threatened status of Columbus as the discoverer of America.
Also be the key to proving that people from the Chinese Foreign continent was
first discovered . The document purported to be from some time in the 18th
century , which is a copy of the 1418 map made Admiral Zheng He , a Muslim
Chinese admiral , who shows details of ' new world ' in some sides . Claims
evidence that Chinese admiral mapped the Western Hemisphere ( Western
Hemisphere ) more than 70 years before Columbus , is one of the claims
published author Gavin Menzies in his new book , " Who Discovered America
? ' " Traditional story that Columbus discovered the ' new world ' is a
sheer fantasy , " he said as published by the Daily Mail , October 8, 2013
. He even believes , Columbus has a current copy of the map of Cheng Ho sailed
the oceans to America . Menzies also said China's fleet of majestic ships that
Zheng He led sail around the mainland of South America , 100 years before
Ferdinand Megellan - the first to sail from Europe to Asia , the first European
to sail the Pacific Ocean , and the first to lead an expedition that aims
around the globe . Furthermore , Menzies claims , the first settlers of the
Western Hemisphere did not come from the ' Bridge the Bering Strait ' , but the
Chinese sailors who first crossed the Pacific Ocean about 40 thousand years ago
. He also wrote , DNA markers prove American Indians and other natives are
descendants of settlers from Asia . Claims that Zheng He discovered America ,
not just this time revealed Menzies . He never publish it in 2002. The
difference, in his latest book , he included a copy of the map found a lawyer
in Beijing , Liu Gang at a flea book - which he claims to strengthen his theory
.
Third
, Zinn also does not explain how the end conditions of Colombus . When Columbus
sailed back to Spain , he gave a warning to the people in the castle . They
amount to approximately their original hosts behave themselves and find gold .
The people in the fort , being creatures of their age , act normal during the
fifteenth century Spanish people around the female nude and gold . According
Guacanagarí , they fought each other at Columbus ship is out of sight . Some
seized about five women respectively as their concubines while others marauded
around the island to find the village with gold . Their dispute reached a
climax when the two Spaniards to kill one another , then eleven of them lined
up around the island where they thought it was a gold mine . Some have left the
castle forever , start your own business in the land of naked women and gold .
Some have already died due to illness . Only God knows what predatory excesses
accompanied their travels around the island , but their acceptance in "
mining area " was most likely not welcome , because they have Caonabo ,
the cacique that ruled there . Caonabo not Taino , but of a less gentle Macorix
ethnic groups . He did not suffer long- Spanish predators . He killed them ,
and then march to the fort Columbus . The Spaniards left has taken up residence
in the village Guacanagarí with their concubines . Caonabo have burned villages
in the night raid . Only eleven Spaniards remained , and eight people died of
drowning when they tried to escape . Guacanagarí seems to have tried to protect
the people of Spain as his village burned and injured . Columbus passion for
gold is more than just greed . He was invested with supernatural , divine
qualities . Not long before he died he wrote : " Gold is the most precious
of all commodities ; . Gold is a treasure , and he who has to have everything
he needs in the world , as well as how to save souls from purgatory , and
return them to the pleasures of heaven "
Columbus
really think that gold is a ticket to heaven . Columbus eventually fell out of
favor with the Crown , and Francisco de Bobadilla and Nicolás de Ovando
succeeded Columbus as governor of Española in 1500 and 1501 . Española
destruction continues, and Ovando even more cruel than Columbus . Mine was
working furiously and native dying at an incredible rate . In 1503,
southeastern and southwestern region of the island was not fully conquered .
Leading the southwestern region , which is known as Xaragua , was Anacaona ,
widow highly respected Caonabo , political leaders who accept the gift of shiny
handcuffs .
Conclusion
There
are two basic points that can be concluded from Zinn 's article entitled Speaking
Truth The Power of The Book . First , the writings that have been made must
be read by the reader and give effect to the reader . As Zinn said "
There's something that can do the important posts , in addition to of all other
things . This was put into words by Kurt Vonnegut , which often asked , "
Why do you write ? " Vonnegut would say, " I write so you will know
there are people who feel the way you do about the world , that you are not
alone . " It is a very important thing to achieve , to have people feel
that they are not alone . And that's something for you also , writers . Second
, to find out about the history we can not just read one of the books written
by others . Why is that ? Because history has a subjective element related to
the author's background . Therefore , as a man who has a sense, we have to look
at exactly the contents of the book we read and look for references to evidence
from the text.
References
Anthropology off the Shelf
Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing
Edited by Alisse Waterston and
Maria D. Vesperi
© 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-405-18920-0
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People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present
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