Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob: TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HISTORY

Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob: TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HISTORY

Utgitt 1995

forlag Norton

322 sider

HISTORY

"It is hard to think of three historians better equipped to deal with threats to the discipline of history... [which] is being fundamental- ly challenged in new ways."

-Gordon S. Wood, Brown University, in The New Republic

TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HISTORY

Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob

"A wise and moderate book. The authors, all distinguished historians.... speak with confidence about the value of both the historian's traditional craft and modern criticism of it. Their sane and readable discussion should give hope to [those] who... believe in the possibility-even the pleasure- of writing history."

-Caroline Walker Bynum

"A fascinating historiographical essay.... An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what is ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."

-Booklist

"A confident, breezy account of the historical profession's encounters with post-modernism and multiculturalism."

-David A. Hollinger, New York Times Book Review

The authors teach history at UCLA.

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ISBN 0-393-31286-0

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