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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... offered in one book more replicable laws about physical 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 ...
... offered in one book more replicable laws about physical 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 ...
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... offered was dramatically visible. When James Watt perfected the steam engine, he could congratulate himself as an experimenter and a theorist, 6 fulfilling the promise made by Bacon and Descartes. Like Josiah Wedgwood (of porcelain fame) ...
... offered was dramatically visible. When James Watt perfected the steam engine, he could congratulate himself as an experimenter and a theorist, 6 fulfilling the promise made by Bacon and Descartes. Like Josiah Wedgwood (of porcelain fame) ...
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... offered transcendence, the reward given to those especially smart people whose rationality rendered them transparent toward nature. The laws of science enabled rational human beings to escape time and hence history, or even to imagine ...
... offered transcendence, the reward given to those especially smart people whose rationality rendered them transparent toward nature. The laws of science enabled rational human beings to escape time and hence history, or even to imagine ...
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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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