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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... 5 Discovering the Clay Feet of Science 6 Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity PART THREE A New Republic of Learning 7 Truth and Objectivity 8 The Future of History Acknowledgments THIS BOOK has been a real collaboration, and as.
... 5 Discovering the Clay Feet of Science 6 Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity PART THREE A New Republic of Learning 7 Truth and Objectivity 8 The Future of History Acknowledgments THIS BOOK has been a real collaboration, and as.
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... learning as well as a philosophical stance. Since the Greeks, a certain amount of skepticism about truth claims has been essential to the search for truth; skepticism can encourage people to learn more and remain open to the possibility ...
... learning as well as a philosophical stance. Since the Greeks, a certain amount of skepticism about truth claims has been essential to the search for truth; skepticism can encourage people to learn more and remain open to the possibility ...
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... learning. Bacon urged thoughtful men to go out into nature not to hunt but to observe. Baconian empiricism tied the experience of nature to the search for applications, and in its emphasis on utility, Baconianism was farsightedly ...
... learning. Bacon urged thoughtful men to go out into nature not to hunt but to observe. Baconian empiricism tied the experience of nature to the search for applications, and in its emphasis on utility, Baconianism was farsightedly ...
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... learning controlled by clerical schoolmen in the service of bishops and nobles, and away from a leisured culture devoted more to the hunt than to the collection of natural artifacts. Not surprisingly, science fared better in Protestant ...
... learning controlled by clerical schoolmen in the service of bishops and nobles, and away from a leisured culture devoted more to the hunt than to the collection of natural artifacts. Not surprisingly, science fared better in Protestant ...
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... learning. In the West the compelling progress attributed to science and technology arose in tandem with a distinctive political culture now almost exclusively associated with representative government. It is not clear if the Industrial ...
... learning. In the West the compelling progress attributed to science and technology arose in tandem with a distinctive political culture now almost exclusively associated with representative government. It is not clear if the Industrial ...
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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