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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 92
Page
... Historical Imagination Capitalism and a New Social Order Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England LYNN HUNT The Invention of Pornography (editor) The Family Romance of the French Revolution The New Cultural History ...
... Historical Imagination Capitalism and a New Social Order Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England LYNN HUNT The Invention of Pornography (editor) The Family Romance of the French Revolution The New Cultural History ...
Page
... history convey some kind of objective truth about the past? Must history be continually rewritten to undo the perpetuation of racial and sexual stereotypes? Or should it stand above the tumult of present-day political and social ...
... history convey some kind of objective truth about the past? Must history be continually rewritten to undo the perpetuation of racial and sexual stereotypes? Or should it stand above the tumult of present-day political and social ...
Page
... social nature of all knowledge construction with the self-interest of the constructors, forgetting that all social beings participate in the search for knowledge and sometimes do so successfully. Success comes when the found knowledge ...
... social nature of all knowledge construction with the self-interest of the constructors, forgetting that all social beings participate in the search for knowledge and sometimes do so successfully. Success comes when the found knowledge ...
Page
... social world, living simultaneous lives that bring them into unexpected connections with each other. Whether reading alone or in groups (as with early newspapers), readers of novels and newspapers knew that they were reading what many ...
... social world, living simultaneous lives that bring them into unexpected connections with each other. Whether reading alone or in groups (as with early newspapers), readers of novels and newspapers knew that they were reading what many ...
Page
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
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 | |
Other editions - View all
Telling the Truth about History Joyce Oldham Appleby,Lynn Hunt,Lynn Avery Hunt,Margaret C. Jacob Limited preview - 1994 |
Common terms and phrases
action American associated became become began believed called century claims Constitution contemporary created critics cultural democracy democratic discipline economic eighteenth century Enlightenment evidence experience explained facts followers force French heroic historians human idea identity imagined important individual industrial influence institutions intellectual interests interpretation knowledge language laws learning liberal linguistic lives Marxism material meaning methods mind moral narrative nature Newton nineteenth century objectivity offered once origins past philosophical political possible postmodernism postmodernist practice present production progress Protestant questions reading reality reason records reform relativism religious scientific scientists seemed sense skepticism social social history society story structure theory thought tradition true truth turn understanding United universal values Western women writing York