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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Nailing jelly to the wall
- Objectivity enthroned. The European legacy: Ranke, Bacon, Flaubert ; The professionalization project ; Consensus and legitimation ; A most genteel insurgency
- Objectivity besieged. Historians on the home front ; A changed climate ; Professionalism stalled ; Divergence and dissent ; The battle joined
- Objectivity reconstructed. The defense of the West ; A convergent culture ; An autonomous profession
- Objectivity in crisis. The collapse of comity ; Every group its own historian ; The center does not hold ; There was no king in Israel
- Appendix: Manuscript collections cited.