TY  - GEN
T1  - The ever-changing past : why all history is revisionist history
A1  - Banner, James M., Jr., 1935-
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven ; London
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1237409317
AB  - "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."--
OP  - 284
CN  - D13 .B26 2021eb
SN  - 9780300258240
SN  - 0300258240
SN  - 9780300238457
SN  - 1705297560
SN  - 1705297579
SN  - 0300238452 (Cloth)
SN  - 0300238452
KW  - Historiography.
KW  - Historians.
KW  - Historiographie.
KW  - historiography.
KW  - HISTORY / Historiography.
KW  - Historians
KW  - Historiography
ER  -