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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... Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England LYNN HUNT The Invention of Pornography (editor) The Family Romance of the French Revolution The New Cultural History (editor) Politics, Culture and Class in the French ...
... Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England LYNN HUNT The Invention of Pornography (editor) The Family Romance of the French Revolution The New Cultural History (editor) Politics, Culture and Class in the French ...
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... economic systems. As one recent believer in the model puts it, “At the heart of modernity is the trust or faith in scientific reason, understood as the source not only of vast powers but of authoritative guidance as to how to use those ...
... economic systems. As one recent believer in the model puts it, “At the heart of modernity is the trust or faith in scientific reason, understood as the source not only of vast powers but of authoritative guidance as to how to use those ...
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... economic improvement as well as the intellectual transformation derived from science and technology. The power attributed to Newtonian mechanics is not a gloss that subsequent generations put on the Industrial Revolution. The link ...
... economic improvement as well as the intellectual transformation derived from science and technology. The power attributed to Newtonian mechanics is not a gloss that subsequent generations put on the Industrial Revolution. The link ...
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... economies, for elections, constitutions, and free markets. The imitation of these British and American forms in other parts of Western Europe after the French Revolution only further validated the cosmic imagery. The democratic ...
... economies, for elections, constitutions, and free markets. The imitation of these British and American forms in other parts of Western Europe after the French Revolution only further validated the cosmic imagery. The democratic ...
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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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