Telling the Truth about History

ISBN-13: 9780393312867 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str.

Joyce Appleby; Margaret C. Jacob; Lynn Hunt

Opis

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 amount of statistics which effectively swamped the search for historical truth.