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"History is written by victors" may itself be an example of history written by the losers! While the quote is commonly misattributed to Winston Churchill, it's origins are unknown and it might be inspired by Hermann Göring's quote:
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
On a (perhaps) more serious ...
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Theory of history is so closely related to "historiography" or the practice of writing and criticising history that we may as well consider them to be basically coaligned. Therefore you will want to read EH Carr's "What is History?" and a textbook aimed at honours / post-graduate coursework students on historiography.
Ranke started modern history with the ...
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I am reading Andrew Weatcroft's's The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburg, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe (see also here). It contains this relevant statement in relation to a (from some perspective) loosing party rewriting history:
Of course, once the great [Ottoman attack on Vienna in 1683] failed,
history was rewritten and the sultan portrayed as ...
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