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Overview

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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780393312867
  • ISBN-10: 0393312860
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publish Date: April 1995
  • Dimensions: 8.32 x 5.48 x 0.91 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.77 pounds
  • Page Count: 336

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