That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context) - Couverture souple

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Novick, Peter

 
9780521357456: That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context)
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ISBN 10 : 0521357454 ISBN 13 : 9780521357456
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1988

Synopsis

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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book is a richly textured account of what American historians have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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Eugene Genovese, That Noble Dream 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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book is a richly textured account of what American historians have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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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1988
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521357454
ISBN 13 
9780521357456
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
664
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ISBN 10 :  0521343283 ISBN 13 :  9780521343282
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1988
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