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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... produce histories with perspectives thought to be more in tune with the values of a socially diverse society. When new history standards were published in world and American history that sought to incorporate recent scholarship on women ...
... produce histories with perspectives thought to be more in tune with the values of a socially diverse society. When new history standards were published in world and American history that sought to incorporate recent scholarship on women ...
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... produce unprecedented progress. The veneer of science overlay the ruthless pursuit of advantage. Once it was rendered simpler and its laws were memorized, the Principia made the universe accessible and its interrelated principles of ...
... produce unprecedented progress. The veneer of science overlay the ruthless pursuit of advantage. Once it was rendered simpler and its laws were memorized, the Principia made the universe accessible and its interrelated principles of ...
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... production] makes everything conform to its orbit.”9 The Newtonian metaphor could not have been more appropriate. Back in the 1620s and 1630s, Bacon and Descartes promised the wonders of science applied; British engineers and mechanists ...
... production] makes everything conform to its orbit.”9 The Newtonian metaphor could not have been more appropriate. Back in the 1620s and 1630s, Bacon and Descartes promised the wonders of science applied; British engineers and mechanists ...
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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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