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Revisionist Histories ‘Marnie Hughes-Warrington once again challenges conventional and hierarchical ways of conceptualizing historical practices. This book asks thought provoking questions about what is seen to count as legitimate history, what is seen to constitute a legitimate act of historical revisionism, and the ways in which audiences make their own meanings from their encounters with historically focused works. This is an important book for anyone who wishes to think about historical practices and revisionism anew.’ Mark Donnelly, St. Mary’s University College, UK Revisionandrevisionismaregenerallyseenasstandardpartsofhistoricalpractice, yet they are underexplored within the growing literature on historiography. In this accessibly written volume, Marnie Hughes-Warrington discusses this paucity of work on revision in history theory and raises ethical questions about linear models and spatial metaphors that have been used to explain it. Revisionist Histories emphasises the role of the authors and audiences of histories alike as the writers and rewriters of history. Through study of digital environments, graphic novels and reader-annotated texts, this book shows that the‘sides’ofhistorycannotbedisentangledfromoneanother,andthattheyare subject to flux and even destruction over time. Incorporating diverse and controversial case studies, including the French Revolution, Holocaust denial and European settlers’ contact with Native Americans and Indigenous Australians, Revisionist Histories offers both a detailed account of the development of revisionism and a new, more spatial vision of historiography. It is an essential text for students of historiography. Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the AustralianNationalUniversity.Sheistheauthoroffivebooks,includingHistory Goes to the Movies (2007), The History on Film Reader (2008) and Fifty Key Thinkers on History (2000, 2008). This page intentionally left blank Revisionist Histories Marnie Hughes-Warrington Firstpublished2013 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2013MarnieHughes-Warrington TherightofMarnieHughes-Warringtontobeidentifiedas authorofthisworkhasbeenassertedbyherinaccordancewithsections 77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproduced orutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans, nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording, orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissionin writingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationand explanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Hughes-Warrington,Marnie. Revisionisthistories/MarnieHughes-Warrington. pagescm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Historiography.2.History–Philosophy.I.Title. D13.H7522013 907.2–dc23 2012050043 ISBN:978-0-415-56078-8(hbk) ISBN:978-0-415-56079-5(pbk) ISBN:978-0-203-76980-5(ebk) TypesetinSabon byTaylor&FrancisBooks I dedicate this book to Alice, not only because she shares my love of a good argument, but also because she was at my side as I wrote it. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of figures viii List of tables ix Acknowledgements x Introduction: Revision in history 1 1 Lines 8 2 Spaces 22 3 Boundaries 38 4 Webs 57 5 Taking sides 77 6 Rewriting history 89 Conclusion: Rethinking history 114 Bibliography 123 Index 138 fi List of gures 1.1 Representation of Hegel’s notion of the dialectic 9 3.1 Divis Street murals, 2 May 2011 by Ardfern 42 3.2 Martha Kuhlman’s decoding of In the Shadow of No Towers broadsheet nine 47 3.3 Maus 1, ‘Mouse Trap’, p. 137 48 3.4 Maus 1, ‘Mouse Trap’, p. 161 49 3.5 Maus 1, ‘Prisoner on the Hell Planet’, p. 101 49 3.6 Heru, Son of Ausar 51 3.7 Diop’s representation of a painting from the tomb of Rameses III 51 3.8 Diop’s connection between Senegalese and Egyptian girls 52 4.1 Phases of activity for Holocaust denial groups, based on Shermer and Grobman, Denying History, p. 102 63 4.2 Unique visitor estimates for the Institute for Historical Revision website (www.ihr.org), from Compete.com 63 4.3 Tiered IT architecture: three-tier example 65 6.1 Readers reorder G. W. F. Hegel’s The Philosophy of History (1956) 95 6.2 ‘The Historian’ in Beverley Southgate’s History: What and Why? (1996) 96 6.3 ‘The Reader of History’ in Beverley Southgate’s History: What and Why? (1996) 98 6.4 ‘Revising History’ in Beverley Southgate’s History: What and Why? (1996) 98 6.5 Creating a palimpsest in Ian Clark’s The Post-Cold War Order (2001) 99 6.6 Providing indexes for other readers of Russel Ward’s Concise History of Australia (1992) and Mary Fulbrook’s A Concise History of Germany (1990) 100 6.7 Redrawing Arthur Marwick’s The Nature of History (1989) 102 6.8 Marking Gabrieli’s Arab Historians of the Crusades with nail polish (1969) 103 6.9 Overwriting Bendet Hershkovitch’s testimony in Marrus’s The Nazi Holocaust (1989) 104 6.10 Personalising Taylor’s Bismarck (1955) 105 6.11 Sealing off Marrus’s The Nazi Holocaust (1989) 106 List of tables 4.1 Opportunities for Volunteering, the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) 70 5.1 Modern genocides 82 5.2 Top ten villainous rulers 83 5.3 Top nine most evil women in history 83

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