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That noble dream : the "objectivity question" and the American historical profession /
"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, challenge...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1988.
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| Colección: | Ideas in context.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and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."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 648 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107266773 1107266777 9781107263208 1107263204 9780511816345 0511816340 |