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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... institutions of church and state. With a bias against religious authority, the philosophes looked back at the discoveries of the previous hundred years and marveled at the trials through which science had been forced to pass. As they ...
... institutions of church and state. With a bias against religious authority, the philosophes looked back at the discoveries of the previous hundred years and marveled at the trials through which science had been forced to pass. As they ...
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... hostility toward entrenched, unresponsive institutions in both church and state. As we will argue, the new, reforming mentality inspired a cultural war with orthodox Christianity that began in Western Europe and continued right.
... hostility toward entrenched, unresponsive institutions in both church and state. As we will argue, the new, reforming mentality inspired a cultural war with orthodox Christianity that began in Western Europe and continued right.
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... institutions of church and state. Theirs was a new, cerebral religiosity they liked to call rational religion. It had very little in common with a miraculous version of Christianity, with relics or miracles, or with expectations of an ...
... institutions of church and state. Theirs was a new, cerebral religiosity they liked to call rational religion. It had very little in common with a miraculous version of Christianity, with relics or miracles, or with expectations of an ...
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... institutions, science and technological innovation belong on the side of the long and continuing struggle for democracy. Western science's originating moment coincided with, as well as it reinforced, commercial expansion, enlightened ...
... institutions, science and technological innovation belong on the side of the long and continuing struggle for democracy. Western science's originating moment coincided with, as well as it reinforced, commercial expansion, enlightened ...
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... institutions. Their passion had been ignited by the lateseventeenth-century revulsion against absolutism, against the French government's persecution of Protestants. But the philosophes wanted to move beyond religious intolerance and ...
... institutions. Their passion had been ignited by the lateseventeenth-century revulsion against absolutism, against the French government's persecution of Protestants. But the philosophes wanted to move beyond religious intolerance and ...
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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