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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... Women, minorities, and workers populate American and Western histories where formerly heroes, geniuses, statesmen—icons of order and the status quo—reigned unchallenged. The postwar generation has questioned fixed categories previously ...
... Women, minorities, and workers populate American and Western histories where formerly heroes, geniuses, statesmen—icons of order and the status quo—reigned unchallenged. The postwar generation has questioned fixed categories previously ...
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... women, minorities, and the oppression of gays and other excluded groups. Whole new teams of writers have been hired to produce histories with perspectives thought to be more in tune with the values of a socially diverse society. When ...
... women, minorities, and the oppression of gays and other excluded groups. Whole new teams of writers have been hired to produce histories with perspectives thought to be more in tune with the values of a socially diverse society. When ...
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... woman, Madame du Châtelet, became teachers of mechanics. As proclaimed by Bacon and Descartes, and later fulfilled by Newton's laws, science seemed to be not only neutral and universal, but also solely the work of genius. This focus ...
... woman, Madame du Châtelet, became teachers of mechanics. As proclaimed by Bacon and Descartes, and later fulfilled by Newton's laws, science seemed to be not only neutral and universal, but also solely the work of genius. This focus ...
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... women like the laboring classes in general joined much of the rest of the world on the periphery of modern science.8 Yet as Westerners women and workers eventually shared in the actual economic improvement as well as the intellectual ...
... women like the laboring classes in general joined much of the rest of the world on the periphery of modern science.8 Yet as Westerners women and workers eventually shared in the actual economic improvement as well as the intellectual ...
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... women met, read, and discussed separately from family, church, or state. This social milieu responded to enlightened ideals which were attractive to selfmotivated, literate, comfortable individuals, hence to the individualism of ...
... women met, read, and discussed separately from family, church, or state. This social milieu responded to enlightened ideals which were attractive to selfmotivated, literate, comfortable individuals, hence to the individualism 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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