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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Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth ABOUT HISTORY Introduction THIS BOOK confronts head-on the uncertainty about values and.
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth ABOUT HISTORY Introduction THIS BOOK confronts head-on the uncertainty about values and.
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... values and truth-seeking and addresses the controversies about objective knowledge, cultural diversity, and the ... value and truth of knowledge eludes just about everyone. This is especially true of historical knowledge. For example ...
... values and truth-seeking and addresses the controversies about objective knowledge, cultural diversity, and the ... value and truth of knowledge eludes just about everyone. This is especially true of historical knowledge. For example ...
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... 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 workers into the old story of male ...
... 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 workers into the old story of male ...
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... values that lead to the search for historical truth. It examines critically the relevance of scientific models to the craft of history. It confronts the role that history plays in shaping national and group identity, and it offers some ...
... values that lead to the search for historical truth. It examines critically the relevance of scientific models to the craft of history. It confronts the role that history plays in shaping national and group identity, and it offers some ...
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... value-free, it is seen as encoded with values, a transmitter of culture as well as physical laws. Even the truth still found in science seems different in character—more provisional, less absolute—than it did to the enlightened ...
... value-free, it is seen as encoded with values, a transmitter of culture as well as physical laws. Even the truth still found in science seems different in character—more provisional, less absolute—than it did to the enlightened ...
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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