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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... becomes the focus of struggle. This is clear in the disturbing efforts of some groups to deny the reality of Hitler's final solution. Even in countries such as Japan where the state reserves the right to publish school textbooks ...
... becomes the focus of struggle. This is clear in the disturbing efforts of some groups to deny the reality of Hitler's final solution. Even in countries such as Japan where the state reserves the right to publish school textbooks ...
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... become skeptical in ways that the true believers of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and beyond would have found unimaginable, as well as irreverent. In this skeptical and iconoclastic vein, they examine the history of Western ...
... become skeptical in ways that the true believers of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and beyond would have found unimaginable, as well as irreverent. In this skeptical and iconoclastic vein, they examine the history of Western ...
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... become like Newton was imagined to have been: a giant of reason who peers at nature with eyes that are value-free, neutral, and objective. Newton's famous dictum that he did not “feign” hypotheses came in the course of the eighteenth ...
... become like Newton was imagined to have been: a giant of reason who peers at nature with eyes that are value-free, neutral, and objective. Newton's famous dictum that he did not “feign” hypotheses came in the course of the eighteenth ...
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... Becomes the Guarantor of Progress and Power During the Enlightenment, elite Westerners constructed first an image of ... become distinctively Western. So impressive was Newton's science that liberal clergymen in England actually used the ...
... Becomes the Guarantor of Progress and Power During the Enlightenment, elite Westerners constructed first an image of ... become distinctively Western. So impressive was Newton's science that liberal clergymen in England actually used the ...
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... become international, their heirs went after the very structure of the oldregime governments. The late-eighteenth-century revolutions— the American included—cannot be understood without first understanding the power of enlightened ...
... become international, their heirs went after the very structure of the oldregime governments. The late-eighteenth-century revolutions— the American included—cannot be understood without first understanding the power of enlightened ...
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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