Revisionist Histories. Marnie Hughes-Warrington

'In 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.

As this book shows, histories do not simply provide alternative interpretations of the past. They also manoeuvre for position within textual and spatial territories, in ways that have ethical as well as historiographical implications.

 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

Recommended by Choice (March 2014)