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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... understanding of what historians do when they research and write history. This book tackles in a general way the underpinnings of our history writing, the assumptions and values that lead to the search for historical truth. It examines ...
... understanding of what historians do when they research and write history. This book tackles in a general way the underpinnings of our history writing, the assumptions and values that lead to the search for historical truth. It examines ...
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... and the human ability to make contact with it. Such faith helps discipline the understanding by requiring constant reference to something outside of the human mind. In a democracy, history thrives on a passion for knowing the truth. Even ...
... and the human ability to make contact with it. Such faith helps discipline the understanding by requiring constant reference to something outside of the human mind. In a democracy, history thrives on a passion for knowing the truth. Even ...
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... understanding of the natural world. Eventually they grafted this conviction onto all other inquiries. The study of history became the search for the laws of human development. Understanding the challenge to truth in an age in full ...
... understanding of the natural world. Eventually they grafted this conviction onto all other inquiries. The study of history became the search for the laws of human development. Understanding the challenge to truth in an age in full ...
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... and methods of reasoning became viable alternatives to the older intellectual absolutisms inherited from the Christianization of the West. Newton's Principia consolidated and made accessible the new scientific understanding.
... and methods of reasoning became viable alternatives to the older intellectual absolutisms inherited from the Christianization of the West. Newton's Principia consolidated and made accessible the new scientific understanding.
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... understanding of nature as mathematical and mechanical. As a separate, autonomous, and supposedly value-free realm of knowledge, Newton's science, the philosophes claimed, could be attributed solely to the progressive insights of ...
... understanding of nature as mathematical and mechanical. As a separate, autonomous, and supposedly value-free realm of knowledge, Newton's science, the philosophes claimed, could be attributed solely to the progressive insights of ...
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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