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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... Idea of Modernity 3 History Makes a Nation PART TWO Absolutisms Dethroned 4 Competing Histories of America 5 Discovering the Clay Feet of Science 6 Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity PART THREE A New Republic of Learning 7 Truth ...
... Idea of Modernity 3 History Makes a Nation PART TWO Absolutisms Dethroned 4 Competing Histories of America 5 Discovering the Clay Feet of Science 6 Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity PART THREE A New Republic of Learning 7 Truth ...
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... ideas and those stories? The challenge is out to all claims to universality expressed in such phrases as “Men are...,” “Naturally science says...” and “As we all know...” In contrast to the critics who have decried the impending death ...
... ideas and those stories? The challenge is out to all claims to universality expressed in such phrases as “Men are...,” “Naturally science says...” and “As we all know...” In contrast to the critics who have decried the impending death ...
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... idea in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet even as the ambitions of history have grown, so too have questions about history's ability to tell a story with any certainty. A democratic practice of history encourages skepticism ...
... idea in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet even as the ambitions of history have grown, so too have questions about history's ability to tell a story with any certainty. A democratic practice of history encourages skepticism ...
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... Ideas of progress and methods of reasoning became viable alternatives to the older intellectual absolutisms inherited from the Christianization of the West. Newton's Principia consolidated and made accessible the new scientific ...
... Ideas of progress and methods of reasoning became viable alternatives to the older intellectual absolutisms inherited from the Christianization of the West. Newton's Principia consolidated and made accessible the new scientific ...
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... ideas. Galileo and his contemporaries experimented with everything from wooden balls to the movement of water in relation to its weight, and they discovered, for example, that a body in free fall accelerates in such a way that the ...
... ideas. Galileo and his contemporaries experimented with everything from wooden balls to the movement of water in relation to its weight, and they discovered, for example, that a body in free fall accelerates in such a way that 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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