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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... practice of history encourages skepticism about dominant views. At the same time, belief in the reality of the past and its knowability is essential to a practice of history. To collapse this tension in favor of one side or the other is ...
... practice of history encourages skepticism about dominant views. At the same time, belief in the reality of the past and its knowability is essential to a practice of history. To collapse this tension in favor of one side or the other is ...
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... practice of history—one in which an evergrowing chorus of voices is heard—will depend upon objectivity, defined anew as a commitment to honest investigation, open processes of research, and engaged public discussions of the meaning of ...
... practice of history—one in which an evergrowing chorus of voices is heard—will depend upon objectivity, defined anew as a commitment to honest investigation, open processes of research, and engaged public discussions of the meaning of ...
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... practice of the new science was remote from the luxurious life at the courts of Europe, as well as unrelated to the religious practices of the Christian churches. Science pointed away from the medieval, away from rote learning ...
... practice of the new science was remote from the luxurious life at the courts of Europe, as well as unrelated to the religious practices of the Christian churches. Science pointed away from the medieval, away from rote learning ...
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... practiced to this day—true knowledge about nature occurs only after careful and replicable investigations performed by a distinctive method of experimentation that requires both evidence and theories that seek to find patterns, or what ...
... practiced to this day—true knowledge about nature occurs only after careful and replicable investigations performed by a distinctive method of experimentation that requires both evidence and theories that seek to find patterns, or what ...
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... practiced, but in far more secular form than what Louis XIV's chroniclers were writing. His admirers had written to ... practice now familiar to anyone who has read a history book. They read old documents and chronicles for what they ...
... practiced, but in far more secular form than what Louis XIV's chroniclers were writing. His admirers had written to ... practice now familiar to anyone who has read a history book. They read old documents and chronicles for what they ...
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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