Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History

by Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia (Editor), S.J. Pearce (Contributor), René Carrasco (Contributor)

In Far-Right Revisionism and the End of the History: Alt/Histories, historians, sociologists, neuroscientists, lawyers, cultural critics, and literary and media scholars come together to offer an interconnected and comparative collection for understanding how contemporary far-right, neo-fascist, Alt-Right, Identitarian, and New Right movements have proposed revisions and counter-narratives to accepted understandings of history, fact and narrative. The innovative essays found here bring forward urgent questions to diverse public, academic, and politically-minded audiences interested in how historical understandings of race, gender, class, nationalism, religion, law, technology and the sciences have been distorted by these far-right movements. If scholars of the last twenty years, like Francis Fukuyama, believed that neoliberalism marked an "end of history," this volume shows how the far right is effectively threatening democracy and its institutions through the dissemination of alt-facts and histories.

Genres: Politics, History, Nonfiction

438 pages, Paperback

Published December 13, 2021

About the author

Dr. Louie Dean Valencia-García, Ph.D. (Early and Late Modern European History, Fordham University; B.A.I.S., International Studies-European Studies, Texas State University; B.A., Spanish, Texas State University), is Assistant Professor of Digital History at Texas State University. He has taught in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University as a Lecturer on History and Literature, and serves on the Research Editorial Committee for EuropeNow , the monthly journal of Council for European Studies at Columbia University. He has held fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the United States Library of Congress, and the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

Reviews

[Ariadne Rodríguez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Before I start with the review proper, it is important to note that I didn't read the complete book. As a contemporary academic (and by that I mean "Read a lot or perish") I, sadly, don't have the time to read everything just for the pleasure of it, but I need to focus on what is important to my current research. It is either that or read everything through "AI" summaries, and I will never accept "AI" in the humanities.

So, what did I read?
- 1 Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History
- 2 The Myth of the Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: The Extreme Right and the American Revision of the History and Historiography of Medieval Spain
- 4 The Far Right and Women’s History
-6 The Alternative Historiography of the Alt-Right: Conservative Historical Subjectivity from the Tea Party to Trump
- 8 The Problem of Alt-Right Medievalist White Supremacy, and Its Black Medievalist Answer
- 9 Getting Medieval Post-Charlottesville: Medievalism and the Alt-Right

Some of the other essays that I didn't read look interesting. Sadly, like I said, they don't fit my current focus. What is my current focus? The alt-right and the use of the past. And the essays I read about the topic really delivered. Although I disagree with some of the authors' conception of time that follows modernity and progressive (in the sense of linear) thought, they really helped formulate my research.

For that and the amount of bibliography it gave me so I can do further research, I give it four stars.