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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... nature and more to do with the sociology of the scientists. The conclusion seems inevitable: because science is an elaborate power game coded mathematically, it ensures the dominance of those who possess it. In this way they have ...
... nature and more to do with the sociology of the scientists. The conclusion seems inevitable: because science is an elaborate power game coded mathematically, it ensures the dominance of those who possess it. In this way they have ...
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... natural world. Eventually they grafted this conviction onto all other inquiries. The study of history became the search for the laws of human ... nature itself, which was presumed to be composed solely of matter The Heroic Model of Science.
... natural world. Eventually they grafted this conviction onto all other inquiries. The study of history became the search for the laws of human ... nature itself, which was presumed to be composed solely of matter The Heroic Model of Science.
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... nature that only the godlike rationality of the seventeenth-century architects of the new heliocentric and mechanical science could explain the West's liberation from ignorance. As eighteenth-century polemicists triumphed in the ...
... nature that only the godlike rationality of the seventeenth-century architects of the new heliocentric and mechanical science could explain the West's liberation from ignorance. As eighteenth-century polemicists triumphed in the ...
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... nature as mathematical and mechanical. As a separate, autonomous, and supposedly value-free realm of knowledge ... natural knowledge fought its way through a battlefield strewn with the corpses of theologians, philosophers, censors, and ...
... nature as mathematical and mechanical. As a separate, autonomous, and supposedly value-free realm of knowledge ... natural knowledge fought its way through a battlefield strewn with the corpses of theologians, philosophers, censors, and ...
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... nature than had ever been assembled in any work in the history of human thought. Contemporaries and subsequent generations saw the publication of the Principia in 1687 as the single most important event in the early modern.
... nature than had ever been assembled in any work in the history of human thought. Contemporaries and subsequent generations saw the publication of the Principia in 1687 as the single most important event in the early modern.
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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