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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... questions present themselves. Do people need history, and if so, whose history and for what purposes? Is history a science or an art? Is history always in some sense propaganda? The answers to these questions might once have been ...
... questions present themselves. Do people need history, and if so, whose history and for what purposes? Is history a science or an art? Is history always in some sense propaganda? The answers to these questions might once have been ...
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... question every barrier to thought. 1 Nothing since that time has been taken as given or beyond questioning, not the classics, not the Bible, not the teachings of church or state. Relativism, a modern corollary to skepticism, is the ...
... question every barrier to thought. 1 Nothing since that time has been taken as given or beyond questioning, not the classics, not the Bible, not the teachings of church or state. Relativism, a modern corollary to skepticism, is the ...
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... question the ability of scientists, policy makers, and professors to escape their own political prejudices ... question the powers that be to promote a greater inclusiveness, but they can also be employed to question any kind of ...
... question the ability of scientists, policy makers, and professors to escape their own political prejudices ... question the powers that be to promote a greater inclusiveness, but they can also be employed to question any kind of ...
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... questions can be understood by anyone willing to read a book about them. If the public is perplexed about the meaning of history and how it is interpreted, then historians are at least partly to blame. It is time historians took ...
... questions can be understood by anyone willing to read a book about them. If the public is perplexed about the meaning of history and how it is interpreted, then historians are at least partly to blame. It is time historians took ...
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... questions about the human experience. The ambitions of history have changed over time, expanding to include general questions of historical development—itself a new idea in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet even as the ...
... questions about the human experience. The ambitions of history have changed over time, expanding to include general questions of historical development—itself a new idea in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet even as the ...
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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