Telling the Truth about History - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret JacobSeries:Norton PaperbackPublish date:1995-04-17Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393312867ISBN-10:393312860UPC:9780393312867Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Historiography, WorldSize:8.32 x 5.48 x 0.91 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SC2GJQXTD3
Telling the Truth about History
This text examines the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that a model of historical research, based on neutrality and objectivity, served historians well until World War II. After that post-modernism suggested history could not reveal the truth about the past and the rise of social history produced a great...
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393312867ISBN-10:393312860UPC:9780393312867Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Historiography, WorldSize:8.32 x 5.48 x 0.91 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SC2GJQXTD3
Appleby, Joyce: - Joyce Appleby (1929--2016) was a professor of history emerita at UCLA, the author of Shores of Knowledge, The Relentless Revolution, and the coauthor of Telling the Truth about History, among many other works. A former president of the American History Association, she was awarded the 2009 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Prize for distinguished writing in American history from the...
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