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That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession

That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession

Novick, Peter
Skinner, Quentin
Tully, James

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Series: Ideas in Context, Book 13

General Political ScienceHistoriography

ISBN10: 0521357454
ISBN13: 9780521357456
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 30 1988
Pages: 662
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The aspiration to relate the past as it really happened has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity was elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the past century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book is a richly textured account of what American historians have thought they were doing, or ought to be doing, when they wrote history--how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles. Published with the support of the Exxon Education Foundation.

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