historical revisionism
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- noun
- /hɪˈstɔːrɪkəl rɪˈvɪʒənɪzəm/
- Formal
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revisionismo histórico
- The book examines historical revisionism, revealing how different authors interpret the same events.
Examples
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Historical "revisionism" is rampant, as different sets of scholars write on things they actually researched and remember from sources that once were valid.
Fiction book (1997) -
Setting aside for the moment the fact that those ideas and policies were often not conservative enough, Obama's historical revisionism is about as brazenly dishonest as it gets.
Blog text (2) -
This leads to historical revisionism.
Academic text (1990) -
It was written before historical revisionism became so popular.
Blog text (6) -
The 2012 dispute over the Senkaku Islands cannot be divorced from this greater conflict between Japan and China over the rise of Japanese historical revisionism.
Academic text (2016) -
I do not accept historical revisionism about this, nor any defense of what I consider to have been a deeply wicked cause that came to justified ruin.
Blog text (27) -
Hence, Japanese historical revisionism and Taiwan-centric nationalism found each other in a comfortable alliance against the common Chinese enemy.
Academic text (2014) -
Since the release of her book in 2006, Chris has been blogging at Talk2Action.org, Huffington Post, and elsewhere about the use of historical revisionism in everything from education to legislation.
Blog text (29) -
Bumstead examines the history, the mythology, and the historical revisionism and pronounces a need to revise the revisers.
Academic text (1998) -
According to David Bar-Illan, government spokesman under Benjamin Netanyahu, unchecked historical revisionism within the academy enabled such myths to make the leap to mainstream Western literature.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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A way of rewriting accepted history or ideas to show a new view
How Radical
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'reinterpretation of historical events' is directly and compositionally derived from 'historical' (pertaining to past events) + 'revisionism' (re-evaluation or reinterpretation). This compound follows a straightforward modifier + noun pattern found across many languages (e.g., Spanish 'revisionismo histórico'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The term historical revisionism comes from the image of a history book being edited by historians. The word revision means to 'change' or 'update' what was written, so when historians re-check old events and change the usual story, that is called 'historical revisionism'.