| Details | | Publication Date: | 1988-10-01 | | Series: | Ideas in Context |
| Size | | Length: | 648 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 30.4 oz |
Publisher's Note The aspiration to relate the past as is 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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book is a richly texture account of what American historians have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.
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, Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century.
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