revisionist historian
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrevisionistandhistorian
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revisionist
adjective
uk/rɪˈvɪʒ.ən.ɪst/us/rɪˈvɪʒ.ən.ɪst/
examining and trying to change existing beliefs about how events happened or what their importance or ...
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historian
noun[C]
uk/hɪˈstɔː.ri.ən/us/hɪˈstɔːr.i.ən/
someone who writes about or ...
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It is this which some revisionist historians have relied upon to allege a general, long-lived atmosphere of terror.
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Revisionist historians are now beginning to ask questions about the social basis, the significance, and the interpretation of radicalism.
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The smouldering controversy was recently inflamed again by revisionist historians.
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This not only is not anachronistic, but is also to be found in the work of revisionist historians themselves.
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Revisionist historians have frequently been led into error by taking as evidence of anachronism in others weak teleology.
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This move is partly a response by historicist critics to the agenda set by the revisionist historians.
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She points out that revisionist historians have focused on the mass while largely ignoring the sermon's place in traditional worship.
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But besides the complications discussed above, several others have been suggested by revisionist historians.
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He has been influenced sufficiently by the revisionist historians to point out the limitations of the toleration achieved in the seventeenth century.
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An analysis of contemporary reaction to the oath demonstrates that early modern government could exert its power in ways which revisionist historians have either missed or denied.
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Revisionist historians use deception techniques to help achieve their political or ideological goals.
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Because historians are credited as people who single-mindedly pursue truth, revisionist historians capitalize on the profession's credibility and present their pseudohistory as true scholarship.
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But, revisionist historians have argued that it created more lawlessness than it eliminated.
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