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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 35
Page
... believed that if properly applied, science would enhance material wealth, and for them science generally meant applied mechanics. When they installed a steam engine, or devised a machine for spinning cotton, or brought in an engineer to ...
... believed that if properly applied, science would enhance material wealth, and for them science generally meant applied mechanics. When they installed a steam engine, or devised a machine for spinning cotton, or brought in an engineer to ...
Page
... believed in the power of machines the way pilgrims had once believed in relics. They found it hard to believe that anyone would resist their progress. British engineers spread the new techniques from Bohemia to western Pennsylvania ...
... believed in the power of machines the way pilgrims had once believed in relics. They found it hard to believe that anyone would resist their progress. British engineers spread the new techniques from Bohemia to western Pennsylvania ...
Page
... believed to be with Newton, motivated and guided solely by the search for truth, which, as it turned out, came to consist only in what could be proclaimed as general laws, universally applicable. Once embracing this posture, the ...
... believed to be with Newton, motivated and guided solely by the search for truth, which, as it turned out, came to consist only in what could be proclaimed as general laws, universally applicable. Once embracing this posture, the ...
Page
... believed were its contradictions. So sure was he that he could distinguish the words of Jesus from Gospel chroniclers —“they stood out like diamonds in a dunghill”—that he took scissors to the sacred text.12 The new religiosity and ...
... believed were its contradictions. So sure was he that he could distinguish the words of Jesus from Gospel chroniclers —“they stood out like diamonds in a dunghill”—that he took scissors to the sacred text.12 The new religiosity and ...
Page
... believed that if they could pin down the chronology of the ancient kingdoms, close textual reading combined with mathematical computation might predict the end of the world. In their cultural warfare against the clergy and the Biblical ...
... believed that if they could pin down the chronology of the ancient kingdoms, close textual reading combined with mathematical computation might predict the end of the world. In their cultural warfare against the clergy and the Biblical ...
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 | |
Other editions - View all
Telling the Truth about History Joyce Oldham Appleby,Lynn Hunt,Lynn Avery Hunt,Margaret C. Jacob Limited preview - 1994 |
Common terms and phrases
action American associated became become began believed called century claims Constitution contemporary created critics cultural democracy democratic discipline economic eighteenth century Enlightenment evidence experience explained facts followers force French heroic historians human idea identity imagined important individual industrial influence institutions intellectual interests interpretation knowledge language laws learning liberal linguistic lives Marxism material meaning methods mind moral narrative nature Newton nineteenth century objectivity offered once origins past philosophical political possible postmodernism postmodernist practice present production progress Protestant questions reading reality reason records reform relativism religious scientific scientists seemed sense skepticism social social history society story structure theory thought tradition true truth turn understanding United universal values Western women writing York