'Important ideas about the relationship between colonialism and history
'introduction
the nature of history is still controversial issue between scholars. history is like a book or school for learning lessons from the previous experiences, so we have to create a common platform to discover this history.in the light of these sentences we will the most important two approaches for understanding the history through this paper. on the other hand, we will make a link between this approach about history and colonization through many political thinkers between them Sousa Santos a Professor at the School of Economics at the University of Coimbra, a Professor at the School of Economics at the University of Coimbra.
circular interpretation of history
some of scholars see history like a circle and a wheel that repeats continuously every numbers of years. Their evidences refer to rise of emperors then falling every numbers of years. in one of history parts, we saw Islamic emperor has rose then falling and shifting to great Britain " the empire on which the sun never sets " , then the sun leave Britain empire to united states of America and no one know how many years will continue [1], especially after the period of trump and the storming of the white house to prevent the democratic transition of power. it is a sign of the decline of the star " unites states" and rise of another superpower as history has accustomed us ?
linear interpretation of history
on the other side ,some of scholars refuse this understanding about history and their alternative is that history is like a line continuing and developing through years. Their evidences refer to nuclear weapon, especially after the second world war. it is impossible for wars to return to the way it was before like horses and camels wars. as well as, this weapon created definition of mutual deterrence, where the struggle between united states and soviet union continued for long year without direct war like the second world war, because of many reasons the most important among them is the nuclear weapons and the possibility of destroying our world if it is used.[2]
linking between approaches of history and coloniality
inside of this linear history, Sousa Santos tried to say this history is colonized as well. where he see this line between two different powers, one of them come firstly and built everything for the history and future and others must follow his steps " where do we live ? in the lands coveted by new and old colonizers in the line with these organize fairs in our villages with stalls for counseling". they put rules for preventing nuclear weapons , so if Iran has nuclear should punished with sanctions, bout if our allies - Israel, USA, France, Germany - have nuclear weapons , it will be good . because we came early only we have 5 seats for developed states - from their point of view- USA. china, France, UK, Russia. but our questions where are Africa in this division where is the Arab states? , where is India and japan and other states?. they can't because we arrived early and created everything for our world united nations, world bank and WTO and you must follow rules or you will be backward state.[3]
on the other side of this point view, we can ask if it is one line of history? what would be our case if Germany destroyed U.S.A and Britain in the second world war. in this imagination we have another track for history with the dominance of German language as international language instead of English[4], another track with soviet union and socialism in case of this experience achieves the success. then we have many branches for the history and our line history one of these options and track.[5]
References
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- ^ Hawkins, Virgil (2003). History repeating itself. African security review.
- ^ Dias, Victor (1996). St. Augustine on the Structure and Meaning of History. Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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- ^ crystal, David. "will English always be the global language".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Tomba, Massimiliano. insurgent university: An alternative legacy of modernity.