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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... 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 (editor) Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution ...
... 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 (editor) Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution ...
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... 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, African Americans, immigrants, and ...
... 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, African Americans, immigrants, and ...
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... 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 belief that truth is relative ...
... 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 belief that truth is relative ...
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... physical nature than had ever been assembled in any work in the history of human thought. Contemporaries and subsequent generations saw the publication of the Principia in 1687 as the single most important event in the early modern.
... physical nature than had ever been assembled in any work in the history of human thought. Contemporaries and subsequent generations saw the publication of the Principia in 1687 as the single most important event in the early modern.
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... thought and for the material order. A full century and a half before the Industrial Revolution, Galileo's contemporaries and admirers, Francis Bacon and René Descartes, appealed for practical, ordinary men to take up the new science ...
... thought and for the material order. A full century and a half before the Industrial Revolution, Galileo's contemporaries and admirers, Francis Bacon and René Descartes, appealed for practical, ordinary men to take up the new science ...
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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