MENU: 5.1. History: which facts?
ALL VIEWS ARE SUBJECTIVE BECAUSE ONE IS OBLIGED TO CHOOSE SOME FACTS AND LEAVE OUT OTHERS
Choices are based on a point of view, such as identity (Washington crossing the Delaware, Bonaparte at the bridge of Arcole) and kinds of society (Lenin mobilizing the Proletariat, Washington at Mount Vernon). The listing of political facts, often brightened up by drama, is also an opinion, though narrators may not be aware of it.
These pages, on the other hand,
stress underlying economic and social forces.
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Liberty Guides the People by Eugène Delacroix, 1831 / zoom |
This iconic work concerns the upheaval of 1830, by which the essential transformation of the French Revolution, eliminating the power of the nobility, became definitive. But that's not said.
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