CMNS 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Official History
17 Apr 2016
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"t go back but we can sill talk about what happened - we can produce knowledge about what happened. History - one form of knowledge in the past. Each of us know very litle if we count irst hand experience. History atempts to establish the existence of things that are no longer here. In many cases, historians work closely with the government. The insituional history also atempts to produce the truth about the past. History - produced by public or private insituions. History is usually presented as objecive to the past and is inseparable from the working of power. Predominantly history is writen in the pre-dominant paradigm. Hence, we are criical of any claim of objecivity. We never discover history waiing for us to discover it. Oicial history narraive usually starts with origin and then tells us how the country developed to come to its current stage.
