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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... Politics in Provincial France MARGARET JACOB The Politics of Western Science (editor) Living the Enlightenment The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution The Radical Enlightenment The Newtonians and the English Revolution Telling ...
... Politics in Provincial France MARGARET JACOB The Politics of Western Science (editor) Living the Enlightenment The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution The Radical Enlightenment The Newtonians and the English Revolution Telling ...
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... political imperatives of a democratic education. It does so by focusing on the project of history, specifically by ... politics, have grown out of the insistent democratization of Western society. The opening of higher education to ...
... political imperatives of a democratic education. It does so by focusing on the project of history, specifically by ... politics, have grown out of the insistent democratization of Western society. The opening of higher education to ...
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... political and social concerns? Is the teaching of a coherent national history essential to democracy? The controversies could surprise many adults who remember their history courses, if they remember them at all, as dreary catalogs of ...
... political and social concerns? Is the teaching of a coherent national history essential to democracy? The controversies could surprise many adults who remember their history courses, if they remember them at all, as dreary catalogs of ...
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... political prejudices. Ecologists complained that modern science in the name of progress had invented the engines of mass destruction and that industry was polluting the environment. In the twentieth century, Western civilization ...
... political prejudices. Ecologists complained that modern science in the name of progress had invented the engines of mass destruction and that industry was polluting the environment. In the twentieth century, Western civilization ...
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... political circumstances foster critical inquiry. Thus it takes up questions about relativism, truth, and objectivity ... politics of identity within a democratic framework. Despite these ambitions, the book nevertheless argues that what ...
... political circumstances foster critical inquiry. Thus it takes up questions about relativism, truth, and objectivity ... politics of identity within a democratic framework. Despite these ambitions, the book nevertheless argues that what ...
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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