That noble dream : the "objectivity question" and the American historical profession /
The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this book, the author shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity was elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the past c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Cambridge [England] :
Cambridge University Press,
1988.
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| Series: | Ideas in context
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| Summary: | The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this book, the author shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity was elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the past century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book presents an account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history - how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 648 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521343283 9780521343282 0521357454 9780521357456 968691465X 9789686914658 |