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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... present. Our central argument is that skepticism and relativism about truth, not only in science but also in history and politics, have grown out of the insistent democratization of Western society. The opening of higher education to ...
... present. Our central argument is that skepticism and relativism about truth, not only in science but also in history and politics, have grown out of the insistent democratization of Western society. The opening of higher education to ...
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... present that seeks to promote an ever more democratic society. To achieve this aim, it is essential to confront the perennial controversies over national history, scientific integrity, and the possibility of truth and objectivity. A ...
... present that seeks to promote an ever more democratic society. To achieve this aim, it is essential to confront the perennial controversies over national history, scientific integrity, and the possibility of truth and objectivity. A ...
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... present-day 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 ...
... present-day 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 ...
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... present and the potential of the future. In the pages that follow we show how historians have conceptualized their task in the past, particularly how history has gone from telling a simple story to answering a complex array of questions ...
... present and the potential of the future. In the pages that follow we show how historians have conceptualized their task in the past, particularly how history has gone from telling a simple story to answering a complex array of questions ...
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... present generation, language, with the many uses and abuses that can be attributed to it, has figured prominently in the arsenal of weapons. To make hermeneutics over into their service, the philosophes had to combat over fifteen ...
... present generation, language, with the many uses and abuses that can be attributed to it, has figured prominently in the arsenal of weapons. To make hermeneutics over into their service, the philosophes had to combat over fifteen ...
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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