Telling the Truth about History

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.

Author: Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/17/1995
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.48w x 0.91d
ISBN13: 9780393312867
ISBN10: 0393312860
BISAC Categories:
- History | Historiography
- History | World | General