The Ever-Changing Past - James M. Banner Jr. - 2021
Why All History Is Revisionist History
By: James M. Banner Jr.
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 11 hrs
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 03-16-21
Language: English
Categories: History, World
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 mono
History is not, and has never been, inert, certain, merely factual, and beyond reinterpretation. Taking listeners 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.
©2021 James M. Banner, Jr. (P)2021 Tantor
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