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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... critics who have decried the impending death of Western civilization under the impact of the democratization of education, we endorse the insights and revisions made possible by that democratization. This book embraces a healthy ...
... critics who have decried the impending death of Western civilization under the impact of the democratization of education, we endorse the insights and revisions made possible by that democratization. This book embraces a healthy ...
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... Critics of the older textbooks found them Eurocentric, racist, sexist, and homophobic, reinforcing the worst racial and sexual stereotypes rather than helping children and young people go beyond them. They celebrated the achievements ...
... Critics of the older textbooks found them Eurocentric, racist, sexist, and homophobic, reinforcing the worst racial and sexual stereotypes rather than helping children and young people go beyond them. They celebrated the achievements ...
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... critics emerged to castigate the textbook reformers for negativity toward Western accomplishments, casting them as bully propagandizers who valued politically motivated interpretations more than the truth. They have been accused of ...
... critics emerged to castigate the textbook reformers for negativity toward Western accomplishments, casting them as bully propagandizers who valued politically motivated interpretations more than the truth. They have been accused of ...
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... critics who dogmatically assert not only the truth but also the superiority of Western values. Contemporary disillusionment frames our examination of heroic science. Compromised by two world wars and a long Cold War in which science and ...
... critics who dogmatically assert not only the truth but also the superiority of Western values. Contemporary disillusionment frames our examination of heroic science. Compromised by two world wars and a long Cold War in which science and ...
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... criticism (if based upon experimentation), and from their refusal to countenance belief, opinion, self-interest, or passion in the search for truth about nature. Eventually the rhetoric of heroic science made science so collective an ...
... criticism (if based upon experimentation), and from their refusal to countenance belief, opinion, self-interest, or passion in the search for truth about nature. Eventually the rhetoric of heroic science made science so collective an ...
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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