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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... associated with religiosity—the conviction that transcendent and absolute truth could be known— to the new mechanical understanding of the natural world. Eventually they grafted this conviction onto all other inquiries. The study of ...
... associated with religiosity—the conviction that transcendent and absolute truth could be known— to the new mechanical understanding of the natural world. Eventually they grafted this conviction onto all other inquiries. The study of ...
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... associated with freedom and independence, the enlightened opponents of censors invented a literary republic of the mind, a semi-clandestine international zone of universally accessible intellectual neutrality. In this imaginary public ...
... associated with freedom and independence, the enlightened opponents of censors invented a literary republic of the mind, a semi-clandestine international zone of universally accessible intellectual neutrality. In this imaginary public ...
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... progress attributed to science and technology arose in tandem with a distinctive political culture now almost exclusively associated with representative government. It is not clear if the Industrial Revolution can be imitated.
... progress attributed to science and technology arose in tandem with a distinctive political culture now almost exclusively associated with representative government. It is not clear if the Industrial Revolution can be imitated.
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... associated it with atheism, then with rebellious colonists and finally with the excesses of the French Revolution. Running through the complex responses of the English-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic is the thread of ...
... associated it with atheism, then with rebellious colonists and finally with the excesses of the French Revolution. Running through the complex responses of the English-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic is the thread of ...
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... associated with science by the continental philosophes. In effect, they sheltered themselves under a compromise between what Protestants liked to call God's work, i.e., science, and God's word, the Bible. In the 1880s, the head of a ...
... associated with science by the continental philosophes. In effect, they sheltered themselves under a compromise between what Protestants liked to call God's work, i.e., science, and God's word, the Bible. In the 1880s, the head of a ...
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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