Historical Revisionism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Revisionism write by Barbara Krasner. This book was released on 2019-07-15. Historical Revisionism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historical revisionism refers to any reinterpretation of recorded history, but whether this practice is beneficial, harmful, or somewhere in between is hotly contested. While allowing newly discovered evidence and facts to enter the historical record may seem benign, the reinterpretation of existing facts to reflect contemporary morality is a far more controversial aspect of the topic. Many also worry this could lead to historical facts being distorted, as has been the case with Holocaust denial. This volume discusses the different forms and causes of historical revisionism along with the ethical, social, and scholarly concerns related to the issue.
Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History
Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History write by Louie Dean Valencia-García. This book was released on 2020-03-18. Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, historians, sociologists, neuroscientists, lawyers, cultural critics, and literary and media scholars come together to offer an interconnected and comparative collection for understanding how contemporary far-right, neo-fascist, Alt-Right, Identitarian and New Right movements have proposed revisions and counter-narratives to accepted understandings of history, fact and narrative. The innovative essays found here bring forward urgent questions to diverse public, academic, and politically minded audiences interested in how historical understandings of race, gender, class, nationalism, religion, law, technology and the sciences have been distorted by these far-right movements. If scholars of the last twenty years, like Francis Fukuyama, believed that neoliberalism marked an 'end of history', this volume shows how the far right is effectively threatening democracy and its institutions through the dissemination of alt-facts and histories.
Past in the Making
Past in the Making - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Past in the Making write by Michal Kopecek. This book was released on 2008. Past in the Making available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historical revisionism, far from being restricted to small groups of ‘negationists,’ has galvanized debates in the realm of recent history. The studies in this book range from general accounts of the background of recent historical revisionism to focused analyses of particular debates or social-cultural phenomena in individual Central European countries, from Germany to Ukraine and Estonia. Where is the borderline between legitimate re-examination of historical interpretations and attempts to rewrite history in a politically motivated way that downgrades or denies essential historical facts? How do the traditional ‘national historical narratives’ react to the ‘spill-over’ of international and political controversies into their ‘sphere of influence’? Technological progress, along with the overall social and cultural decentralization shatters the old hierarchies of academic historical knowledge under the banner of culture of memory, and breeds an unequalled democratization in historical representation. This book offers a unique approach based on the provocative and instigating intersection of scholarly research, its political appropriations, and social reflection from a representative sample of Central and East European countries.
The Ever-Changing Past
The Ever-Changing Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ever-Changing Past write by James M. Banner, Jr.. This book was released on 2021-03-16. The Ever-Changing Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An experienced, multi-faceted historian shows how revisionist history is at the heart of creating historical knowledge "A rallying cry in favor of historians who, revisiting past subjects, change their minds. . . . Rewarding reading."—Kirkus Reviews History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking readers from Thucydides to the origin of the French Revolution to the Civil War and beyond, James M. Banner, Jr. explores what historians do and why they do it. Banner shows why historical knowledge is unlikely ever to be unchanging, why history as a branch of knowledge is always a search for meaning and a constant source of argument, and why history is so essential to individuals’ awareness of their location in the world and to every group and nation’s sense of identity and destiny. He explains why all historians are revisionists while they seek to more fully understand the past, and how they always bring their distinct minds, dispositions, perspectives, and purposes to bear on the subjects they study.
Israeli Historical Revisionism
Israeli Historical Revisionism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Israeli Historical Revisionism write by Derek J. Penslar. This book was released on 2013-10-31. Israeli Historical Revisionism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars from within and outside Israel, shed new light on the Israeli historians' controversy of the creation of the State of Israel, the 1948 War and its aftermath, Israel's attitude towards Holocaust survivors, the "melting pot" absorption policy and similar subjects. The attack on Zionist historiography, which initially came from what is dubbed the "post-Zionist" radical left, has recently broadened to include a critique from the right. These essays cover diverse aspects of the critique, exploring its historiographical, political, sociological and educational ramifications.
