Abstract: Historical revisionism is run amok in our schools. The myths debunked.
Keywords: book review, current_events, history, education, rewriting history, cultural relativism, historical revisionism, political correctness, historiography, historicism.

Title: The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
Author: Keith Windschuttle
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: September 1997
ISBN: 0684844451
LOCN: D13.W624 1997
Dewey: 907/.2 21
Pages: 298
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Author:        Windschuttle, Keith, 1942-
Title:         The killing of history : how literary critics and
                  social theorists are murdering our past / Keith
                  Windschuttle.
Edition:       1st Free Prees ed.
Published:     New York : Free Press, 1997.
Description:   298 p. ; 24 cm.
LC Call No.:   D13.W624 1997
Dewey No.:     907/.2 21
ISBN:          0684844451
Notes:         Originally published: Paddington, NSW, Australia
                  : Macleay Press, 1996. Rev. and expanded international ed.
               Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects:      Historiography.
               Historicism.
Control No.:   97018957 

     

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