The latter challenge the existence of objective reality, believing that each historian is shaped by different factors and that this, in turn, shapes his or her outlook and reasoning. Therefore, say the postmodernists, since everyone has different views, there can be no consensus or accepted history and hence no standards. Ginzburg vigorously disagrees. The answer is found in the protagonists' motivations. All are speaking about what was, with an unblinking eye on what is to be.
History is a battleground.
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