POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical History Writing

Critical History Writing

Introduction

Job of historian is to explore, inspect, and understand the past accounts. They make use of several resources in their study, together with systems and institutional accounts, quality newspaper and other publications, images, interviews, movies, and unpublished documents for example, individual accounts and correspondences. Historians more often than not give attention to a territory or constituency, a particular era, or a particular discipline, for example: societal, academic, civilizing, political, or political account. Other historians support study and conserve archival resources, artefacts, and significant structures and locations. The main effort of an historian is to examine the historical accounts in an analytical manner to offer support in future study (Williamson, 2007).

Conversely, what a historian performs is much more multifaceted than examining historical facts and events. Historians gather information, documents and images from the ancient times, analyze and study them for significance and share their findings with the world. Historians hold works in many associations and organizations that involve strict continuance of past accounts. The main function is to understand writings of the past like this, account on what he or she discovers there, and therefore notify the world in relation to the historical facts. Same effort has been done by Amadouny, V.M in presenting his historical analysis on the topic, The Formation of the Transjordan-Syria Boundary. This article is an exemplar of the academic discussion regarding the Middle Eastern studies. The paper will talk about the theories, historical assumptions and methodologies used by Amadouny in his commentary. The paper will inspect at the surface of the article to determine and explain the scholarly processes.



Discussion

General Presentation of the Article

The general presentation of the article is more like in a “narrative form”, sequence of events notifying with reference to an uninterrupted account of the formation of boundary between Transjordan and Syria, as restructured all the way in the support of primary and secondary resources. In this editorial, we encounter a few most important stances. Each of them is established in a very innovative way. The author employs a literal drive into the historical facts as a way of contrasting it with other historical assumptions. One of the main point is an in depth description of the past interconnected work by Amadouny. Like: what author is attempting to achieve, how he effort to get and what he is actually inspecting for. For example, narrative of the topic is interestingly drawn with the help of events which led to the formation of frontier line between Transjordan and Syria. Taken in to consideration following passage from the article shows that author has employed historical facts and events in an appropriate manner and justified the boundary of the topic.

“The formation of a global border line between Transjordan and Syria was one of the results of the secret agreements that were approved by the colonial powers throughout the First World Warfare. Even though Transjordan was not formed in 1921, its border line with Syria had been given in 1920 ...