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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... the Clay Feet of Science 6 Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity PART THREE A New Republic of Learning 7 Truth and Objectivity 8 The Future of History Acknowledgments THIS BOOK has been a real collaboration, and as.
... the Clay Feet of Science 6 Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity PART THREE A New Republic of Learning 7 Truth and Objectivity 8 The Future of History Acknowledgments THIS BOOK has been a real collaboration, and as.
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... truth, or at least truths that hold for all groups for many generations? We are arguing here that truths about the past are possible, even if they are not absolute, and hence are worth struggling for. Reaction to the experience of World ...
... truth, or at least truths that hold for all groups for many generations? We are arguing here that truths about the past are possible, even if they are not absolute, and hence are worth struggling for. Reaction to the experience of World ...
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... truth. Even in a democracy, history involves power and exclusion, for any history is always someone's history, told by that someone from their partial point of view. Yet external reality also has the power to impose itself on the mind ...
... truth. Even in a democracy, history involves power and exclusion, for any history is always someone's history, told by that someone from their partial point of view. Yet external reality also has the power to impose itself on the mind ...
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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