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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... true, all are interrelated phenomena. It is no accident that they occurred almost simultaneously. More people have now been to college or university than was the case at any time in the past. We should, and indeed do, know many things ...
... true, all are interrelated phenomena. It is no accident that they occurred almost simultaneously. More people have now been to college or university than was the case at any time in the past. We should, and indeed do, know many things ...
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... true intellectual. Denis Diderot, one of the leaders of the Enlightenment, insisted, “All things must be examined, all must be winnowed and sifted without exception and without sparing anyone's sensibilities.” In the new age announced ...
... true intellectual. Denis Diderot, one of the leaders of the Enlightenment, insisted, “All things must be examined, all must be winnowed and sifted without exception and without sparing anyone's sensibilities.” In the new age announced ...
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... true believer, a sociologist of the 1940s, “The stars have no sentiments, the atoms no anxieties which have to be taken into account. Observation is objective with little effort on the part of the scientist to make it so.”1 Now it is ...
... true believer, a sociologist of the 1940s, “The stars have no sentiments, the atoms no anxieties which have to be taken into account. Observation is objective with little effort on the part of the scientist to make it so.”1 Now it is ...
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... True to their age, late-twentiethcentury historians of Western science have become skeptical in ways that the true believers of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and beyond would have found unimaginable, as well as irreverent. In ...
... True to their age, late-twentiethcentury historians of Western science have become skeptical in ways that the true believers of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and beyond would have found unimaginable, as well as irreverent. In ...
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... true Baconians using the sophisticated mechanical knowledge available to their age to produce unprecedented progress. The veneer of science overlay the ruthless pursuit of advantage. Once it was rendered simpler and its laws were ...
... true Baconians using the sophisticated mechanical knowledge available to their age to produce unprecedented progress. The veneer of science overlay the ruthless pursuit of advantage. Once it was rendered simpler and its laws were ...
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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