Revising the Past / Revisiting the Present: How Change Happens in Historiography

This article investigates the various forces that may help to explain the ongoing historio-graphical phenomenon of revision. It takes as its point of departure Michel de Certeau's understanding of the writing of history as a process consisting of an unstable and constantly changing triangulated...

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Main Author: Spiegel, Gabrielle M. 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2007
In: History and theory
Year: 2007, Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-19
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