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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... reason for democratic citizens to expand their commitment to pluralistic education and continue their appraisal of the accounts that define them as a nation. National histories will still be necessary; so too will be faith in the ...
... reason for democratic citizens to expand their commitment to pluralistic education and continue their appraisal of the accounts that define them as a nation. National histories will still be necessary; so too will be faith in the ...
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... reason: disinterested, impartial, and, if followed closely, a guarantee of progress in this world. Science took its character from nature itself, which was presumed to be composed solely of matter The Heroic Model of Science.
... reason: disinterested, impartial, and, if followed closely, a guarantee of progress in this world. Science took its character from nature itself, which was presumed to be composed solely of matter The Heroic Model of Science.
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... reason, understood as the source not only of vast powers but of authoritative guidance as to how to use those powers.”2 Faith in the guidance as well as the power provided by heroic science consoles traditionalist critics who ...
... reason, understood as the source not only of vast powers but of authoritative guidance as to how to use those powers.”2 Faith in the guidance as well as the power provided by heroic science consoles traditionalist critics who ...
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... reason over superstition, or as they put it, of light against the powers of darkness. “Let Newton be and all was light,” said Alexander Pope. Predictably, given the force of Christian imagery in the West, science also had its prophets ...
... reason over superstition, or as they put it, of light against the powers of darkness. “Let Newton be and all was light,” said Alexander Pope. Predictably, given the force of Christian imagery in the West, science also had its prophets ...
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... reason who peers at nature with eyes that are value-free, neutral, and objective. Newton's famous dictum that he did not “feign” hypotheses came in the course of the eighteenth century to symbolize the belief that science had carved out ...
... reason who peers at nature with eyes that are value-free, neutral, and objective. Newton's famous dictum that he did not “feign” hypotheses came in the course of the eighteenth century to symbolize the belief that science had carved out ...
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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