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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... traditions and 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 ...
... traditions and 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 ...
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... traditional institutions of church and state. With a bias against religious authority, the philosophes looked back at the discoveries of the previous hundred years and marveled at the trials through which science had been forced to pass ...
... traditional institutions of church and state. With a bias against religious authority, the philosophes looked back at the discoveries of the previous hundred years and marveled at the trials through which science had been forced to pass ...
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... tradition and the status quo. Late in the century a traveler to the coal-rich hills of Derbyshire or to the workshops of Birmingham could marvel at the enclaves of mechanization, at the longer canals, deeper mines, and stronger engines ...
... tradition and the status quo. Late in the century a traveler to the coal-rich hills of Derbyshire or to the workshops of Birmingham could marvel at the enclaves of mechanization, at the longer canals, deeper mines, and stronger engines ...
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... tradition. In those centuries Biblical scholars laid claim to the Word of God as their province. They invented hermeneutics. They classified words, found their origin, assessed their meaning by reference to other texts written at the ...
... tradition. In those centuries Biblical scholars laid claim to the Word of God as their province. They invented hermeneutics. They classified words, found their origin, assessed their meaning by reference to other texts written at the ...
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... traditional learning, with so many battles being engaged in the cultural war, Diderot described the follower of the Enlightenment as an eclectic, a skeptic and investigator who “trampling underfoot prejudice, tradition, venerability ...
... traditional learning, with so many battles being engaged in the cultural war, Diderot described the follower of the Enlightenment as an eclectic, a skeptic and investigator who “trampling underfoot prejudice, tradition, venerability ...
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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