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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Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth ABOUT HISTORY Joyce Appleby Lynn Hunt Margaret Jacob W.W. NORTON & COMPANY NEW YORK • LONDON Copyright © 1994 by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret.
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth ABOUT HISTORY Joyce Appleby Lynn Hunt Margaret Jacob W.W. NORTON & COMPANY NEW YORK • LONDON Copyright © 1994 by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret.
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... .072—dc20 93-11536 ISBN: 978-0-393-31286-7 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 www.wwnorton.com W.W. Norton & Company Ltd. Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London WIT 3QT To our students and our teachers.
... .072—dc20 93-11536 ISBN: 978-0-393-31286-7 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 www.wwnorton.com W.W. Norton & Company Ltd. Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London WIT 3QT To our students and our teachers.
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... York Public Library's well-preserved copy of Werner Rolewinck's Bundle of Chronologies from 1474, for instance, you would see two lines running in parallel through the text. One line measures time since the beginning of the world and ...
... York Public Library's well-preserved copy of Werner Rolewinck's Bundle of Chronologies from 1474, for instance, you would see two lines running in parallel through the text. One line measures time since the beginning of the world and ...
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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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