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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... creation and survival of the new mechanical science had seemed a difficult and precarious process. According to the enlightened commentators, the seventeenth-century giants of science, on whose shoulders the philosophes themselves stood ...
... creation and survival of the new mechanical science had seemed a difficult and precarious process. According to the enlightened commentators, the seventeenth-century giants of science, on whose shoulders the philosophes themselves stood ...
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... created an essential context for its survival. Even Newton relied upon a network of communication that crisscrossed London, Oxford, and his own university at Cambridge. Some of his earliest followers were English clergymen who from ...
... created an essential context for its survival. Even Newton relied upon a network of communication that crisscrossed London, Oxford, and his own university at Cambridge. Some of his earliest followers were English clergymen who from ...
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... creating within France and much of the rest of Western Europe a new dissident counterculture. Its strength derived ... created an idealized portrait of English government. Into the same enlightened story they wrote a newly triumphant ...
... creating within France and much of the rest of Western Europe a new dissident counterculture. Its strength derived ... created an idealized portrait of English government. Into the same enlightened story they wrote a newly triumphant ...
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... creating wholly secular and scientific learning, but with consequences for learning only recently apparent. In the ... creation and deluge were actual and decisive events in the past. The beginning.
... creating wholly secular and scientific learning, but with consequences for learning only recently apparent. In the ... creation and deluge were actual and decisive events in the past. The beginning.
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... created the world around 4000 B.C. Then human history began, and its continuing enactment occurs in the shadow of the supernatural. Protestant clergymen went even further. They also sought evidence about the end of history, about the ...
... created the world around 4000 B.C. Then human history began, and its continuing enactment occurs in the shadow of the supernatural. Protestant clergymen went even further. They also sought evidence about the end of history, about the ...
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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