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Telling the Truth about History
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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Details
- 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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