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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... interests are served by those 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 ...
... interests are served by those 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 ...
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... say that knowledge about the past is simply an ideological construction intended to serve particular interests, making history a series of myths establishing or reinforcing group identities. Skeptics and relativists—sometimes known as.
... say that knowledge about the past is simply an ideological construction intended to serve particular interests, making history a series of myths establishing or reinforcing group identities. Skeptics and relativists—sometimes known as.
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... interest of the constructors, forgetting that all social beings participate in the search for knowledge and sometimes do so successfully. Success comes when the found knowledge can be understood, verified, or appreciated by people who ...
... interest of the constructors, forgetting that all social beings participate in the search for knowledge and sometimes do so successfully. Success comes when the found knowledge can be understood, verified, or appreciated by people who ...
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... interests they had spread the message of applied science more deeply and widely in Britain than in any other Western country. The reputation of science was vastly enhanced when it was credited with the most fundamental social ...
... interests they had spread the message of applied science more deeply and widely in Britain than in any other Western country. The reputation of science was vastly enhanced when it was credited with the most fundamental social ...
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... interest, or passion in the search for truth about nature. Eventually the rhetoric of heroic science made science so ... interests, bore no relation to what could be attributed solely to abstract science. Sometime in the late 1940s after ...
... interest, or passion in the search for truth about nature. Eventually the rhetoric of heroic science made science so ... interests, bore no relation to what could be attributed solely to abstract science. Sometime in the late 1940s after ...
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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