Reference:In Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World. Editors: Bell DA, Mintzker Y. 154-192. Oxford University Press, New York, USA 2018
This book chapter argues that scholars have overlooked the dynamic of revolutionaries’ own attempts to write and practice history during the Revolution of 1789. Contemporaries’ engagement with history, I argue, not only prefigured democratic media culture, it exposed the role of politically-inflected uses of history in redefining truth about the past and understanding the shape of the present.
