Telling the Truth about History"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist |
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... MARGARET JACOB The Politics of Western Science (editor) Living the Enlightenment The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution The Radical Enlightenment The Newtonians and the English Revolution Telling the Truth ABOUT HISTORY.
... MARGARET JACOB The Politics of Western Science (editor) Living the Enlightenment The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution The Radical Enlightenment The Newtonians and the English Revolution Telling the Truth ABOUT HISTORY.
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... Western society. The opening of higher education to nearly all who seek it, the rewriting of American history from a variety of cultural perspectives, and the dethroning of science as the source and model for what may be deemed true ...
... Western society. The opening of higher education to nearly all who seek it, the rewriting of American history from a variety of cultural perspectives, and the dethroning of science as the source and model for what may be deemed true ...
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... Western histories where formerly heroes, geniuses, statesmen—icons of order and the status quo—reigned unchallenged. The postwar generation has questioned fixed categories previously endorsed as rational by all thoughtful men, and has ...
... Western histories where formerly heroes, geniuses, statesmen—icons of order and the status quo—reigned unchallenged. The postwar generation has questioned fixed categories previously endorsed as rational by all thoughtful men, and has ...
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... Western accomplishments, casting them as bully propagandizers who valued politically motivated interpretations more than the truth. They have been accused of deliberately exaggerating the contributions of minority groups in order to ...
... Western accomplishments, casting them as bully propagandizers who valued politically motivated interpretations more than the truth. They have been accused of deliberately exaggerating the contributions of minority groups in order to ...
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... Western philosophy. The inauguration of the atomic age in 1945 and the increasing interconnection between big science and big government impugned the disinterestedness of science itself. America's civil rights movement and the protests ...
... Western philosophy. The inauguration of the atomic age in 1945 and the increasing interconnection between big science and big government impugned the disinterestedness of science itself. America's civil rights movement and the protests ...
Contents
History Makes a Nation | |
Competing Histories of America | |
Discovering the Clay Feet of Science | |
Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity | |
Truth and Objectivity | |
The Future of History | |
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Telling the Truth about History Joyce Oldham Appleby,Lynn Hunt,Lynn Avery Hunt,Margaret C. Jacob Limited preview - 1994 |
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