The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History

Name: The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History
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Rating: 4.6 (41 reviews)
Author: James M. Banner

by James M. Banner

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Perfect for you if...

You're curious about how knowledge actually works and sceptical of anyone claiming to have the final word on anything.
You read history for the argument as much as the facts, and you want to understand the machinery beneath historical narratives.
You're a student of history, philosophy, or epistemology who needs a clear-eyed primer on how your discipline actually functions.

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You want a straightforward story of what happened in the past without thinking about how we know what we know.
You're looking for a narrative history or biography rather than a book about the practice of history itself.
You prefer your non-fiction without philosophical frameworks or discussions of academic methodology.

About this book

James M. Banner, Jr. examines how historians interpret and reinterpret the past. He argues that history is not fixed or merely factual, but subject to constant reinterpretation. Drawing on examples from Thucydides through the French Revolution and the Civil War, Banner explores what historians do and why they do it. Banner demonstrates why historical knowledge continually changes, why history as a discipline involves searching for meaning and generating debate, and why history matters to individuals' self-understanding and to groups' and nations' sense of identity and destiny. He explains that all historians are revisionists in their efforts to understand the past more fully, and that historians inevitably bring their own minds, perspectives, and purposes to their subjects of study.

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