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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: ever-changing past
    sub title: why all history is revisionist history
  name:
    name part: Banner, James M.
    name part: 1935-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction -- ONE. Revisions Without End: The Origins of the American Civil War -- TWO. The Ancient Origins of Revisionist History -- THREE. Revisionist History in the Modern Era -- FOUR. Varieties of Revisionist History -- FIVE. Some Fruits of Revisionist History -- SIX. History and Objectivity.
  note: James M. Banner, Jr.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Historians
  classification: D13 .B36 2021
  classification: 907.2
  identifier: 0300238452
  identifier: 9780300238457
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200820
    record change date: 20210728154732.0
    record identifier: in00004420879