Telling the truth about history

By:

Appleby, Joyce

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London W.W. Norton & Company 1994Description: xi, 322 pISBN:

9780393312867 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

973.072 APP

Summary: "This book engages the various criticisms that have fragmented the authority of historical knowledge. Although acknowledging degrees of legitimacy in the criticisms, the authors launch a pragmatic response that supports the historian. Even if historical truth is an ever-receding goal, the effort to approach it, they show, is legitimate, worthy, and governed by agreed-upon rules. And while affirming the claims of women and ethnic minorities to a rightful place in any narrative of American history, the authors insist on the accountability of history. They outline a narrative of the American past that incorporates its multicultural dimension without special pleading"--Publisher's description.

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"This book engages the various criticisms that have fragmented the authority of historical knowledge. Although acknowledging degrees of legitimacy in the criticisms, the authors launch a pragmatic response that supports the historian. Even if historical truth is an ever-receding goal, the effort to approach it, they show, is legitimate, worthy, and governed by agreed-upon rules. And while affirming the claims of women and ethnic minorities to a rightful place in any narrative of American history, the authors insist on the accountability of history. They outline a narrative of the American past that incorporates its multicultural dimension without special pleading"--Publisher's description.

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