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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... century radicals and revolutionaries thought they were fulfilling the ... nineteenthcentury advocates of the new social sciences were split ... centuries of Western stability once ensured by monarchs, aristocracies, and churches. But so ...
... century radicals and revolutionaries thought they were fulfilling the ... nineteenthcentury advocates of the new social sciences were split ... centuries of Western stability once ensured by monarchs, aristocracies, and churches. But so ...
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... nineteenth-century historians such as the German Leopold von Ranke repudiated the Enlightenment's program for reform. Liberal historians, often allied with the bourgeoisie of city and industry, built upon it and the legacy of the French ...
... nineteenth-century historians such as the German Leopold von Ranke repudiated the Enlightenment's program for reform. Liberal historians, often allied with the bourgeoisie of city and industry, built upon it and the legacy of the French ...
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... century English Protestants forged a distinctive alliance which would last in high culture well into the nineteenth century: science properly understood could support religion. The English Puritans of the mid-seventeenth century ...
... century English Protestants forged a distinctive alliance which would last in high culture well into the nineteenth century: science properly understood could support religion. The English Puritans of the mid-seventeenth century ...
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... nineteenth century Anglo-American view of science never entirely escaped its seventeenth-century Puritan and revolutionary context. The Puritans bequeathed to modern thought, and particularly to the nineteenth-century university, a ...
... nineteenth century Anglo-American view of science never entirely escaped its seventeenth-century Puritan and revolutionary context. The Puritans bequeathed to modern thought, and particularly to the nineteenth-century university, a ...
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... nineteenth-century scientific hermeneutics turned the scientific method on the Bible itself, anchored it historically and linguistically, and asked that its words be related to other words in other historical texts. Put bluntly, the ...
... nineteenth-century scientific hermeneutics turned the scientific method on the Bible itself, anchored it historically and linguistically, and asked that its words be related to other words in other historical texts. Put bluntly, 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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