The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
- List Price: $26.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2002
Description:
For centuries, the study of history has essentially been a search for the truth, for "what really happened". Today, however, the discipline is under potentially lethal attack from an array of literary and social theorists who deny that truth and knowledge about the past are possible, and who argue that history can only be perceived through the distorted lens of our own cultural interests and concerns.
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The Killing of History goes straight to the frontlines of the debate, using case studies to pit the new theories against what we know to be true. Chapters reveal how trendy academics have garbled the European discovery of America, the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, among other topics. What emerges is an important lesson in the separation of fact from fiction that will do much to rescue history as we know it -- and teach it.
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