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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... writers have been hired to produce histories with perspectives thought to be more in tune with the values of a socially diverse society. When new history standards were published in world and American history that sought to incorporate ...
... writers have been hired to produce histories with perspectives thought to be more in tune with the values of a socially diverse society. When new history standards were published in world and American history that sought to incorporate ...
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... writing, the assumptions and 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 ...
... writing, the assumptions and 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 ...
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... writer, sometime pornographer, reader of science, host of salons, or occasional freemason. Relying on their reading of Locke and Newton, French exiles and philosophes rushed into print with any idea that looked dangerous to entrenched ...
... writer, sometime pornographer, reader of science, host of salons, or occasional freemason. Relying on their reading of Locke and Newton, French exiles and philosophes rushed into print with any idea that looked dangerous to entrenched ...
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... writing. His admirers had written to show the hand of God at work in history, particularly at the French court. The ... writers like Lord Clarendon, who wrote the first history of the English civil wars, and especially the Whig ...
... writing. His admirers had written to show the hand of God at work in history, particularly at the French court. The ... writers like Lord Clarendon, who wrote the first history of the English civil wars, and especially the Whig ...
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... writing about churches served in their view to elevate them. The language in a text, the words on the page, became too important to be left to clerical interpreters. The words had to be enlisted in the enterprise of creating wholly ...
... writing about churches served in their view to elevate them. The language in a text, the words on the page, became too important to be left to clerical interpreters. The words had to be enlisted in the enterprise of creating wholly ...
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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