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Telling the Truth About History

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor 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 Society of American Historians. Klappentext We have lost our grip on historical truth. Popular films depict subterranean conspiracies that shape historical events and public knowledge of those events. Best-selling narrative histories dissolve the border between fact and fiction, allowing the author's imagination to roam freely. Influential critics dissolve the author herself into one among many sources of meaning, reducing historical knowledge to a series of texts engaged with each other, not with the past. Powerful constituencies call for histories that affirm more than inform. This new book by three of our most accomplished historians engages the various criticisms that have fragmented the authority of historical knowledge. Although acknowledging degrees of legitimacy in the criticisms, the authors launch a pragmatic response that supports the historian, as they put it, in her long climb, notebook computer in tow, up the 300 stairs to the archives in Lyon. Even if historical truth is an ever-receding goal, the effort to approach it, they show, is legitimate, worthy, and governed by agreed-upon rules. And while affirming the claims of women and ethnic minorities to a rightful place in any narrative of American history, the authors insist on the accountability of history. They outline a coherent narrative of the American past that incorporates its multicultural dimension without special pleading. Zusammenfassung "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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Authors Joyce Appleby, Joyce (UCLA) Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Lynn (UCLA) Hunt, Margaret Jacob, Margaret (UCLA) Jacob
Publisher Norton and Co Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 10.05.1995
 
EAN 9780393312867
ISBN 978-0-393-31286-7
Dimensions 136 mm x 207 mm x 20 mm
Series Norton Paperback
Norton Paperback
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book

HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Historiography, History - General History

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