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“THE EIFFEL TOWER NOT ONLY REPRESENTS BUT IS EVERYTHING”
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This essay is a portfolio that historicizes the Eiffel Tower. There is a page dedicated for an introduction, explaining the relevance of the Eiffel Tower and what one could learn from comparing its different (possible) historiographies. There is a page dedicated (around 500 words) to the analysi...

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  • September 9, 2024
  • 12
  • 2023/2024
  • Essay
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  • 7-8

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  • the eiffel tower
  • technology
  • ideology
  • culture
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  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
  • Media, Kunst, Design en Architectuur
  • Historiography of Media, Art,Design, Architecture (L_AABAMKD218)
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, “THE EIFFEL TOWER NOT ONLY REPRESENTS BUT
IS EVERYTHING”1




Introduction
When analyzing the Eiffel Tower from a historiographic perspective it is necessary to
adequately understand and consider the historical perspective as well. Academics do
not always agree on the meaning of the term history.2 According to Cambridge
Dictionary, history is the study of past events usually in chronological order covering
all aspects of human society.3 This includes political, cultural, religious, social,
economic, military, scientific, medical, and technological developments. In contrast to
history, historiography studies how all those aspects of human society influence how
history is written over time.4 When studying how history is written over time it is
important to take into consideration what kind of sources are used, who wrote it and


1 William, Thompson, “‘The Symbol of Paris’: Writing the Eiffel Tower,” The French Review 73, no. 6 (2000): 1135,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/399367.
2 Lynn, Fendler, "History, Archaeology, Genealogy,” Bloomsbury, 2010, 38.
3 Fendler, "History, Archaeology, Genealogy," 38.
4 "Historiography," In Cambridge Dictionary, Accessed 19 march 2024,
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/historiography.

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