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Appleby, Joyce

Telling the truth about history / Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob - New York : Norton, 1994. - 322 p. ; 22 cm.

Introduction p. 1 Intellectual Absolutisms The Heroic Model of Science p. 15 Scientific History and the Idea of Modernity p. 52 History Makes a Nation p. 91 Absolutisms Dethroned Competing Histories of America p. 129 Discovering the Clay Feet of Science p. 160 Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity p. 198 A New Republic of Learning Truth and Objectivity p. 241 The Future of History p. 271

ISBN: 9780393312867

LCCN: 93011536

Subjects--Topical Terms:
History.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Historiography.

Dewey Class. No.: 973.072 APP