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Telling the Truth About History by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob (1995, Paperback) 
Telling the Truth About History by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob (1995, Paperback)

 
Telling the Truth About History by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob (1995, Paperback)

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0393312860
ISBN-13: 9780393312867
Product ID: EPID136712
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Publication Date:1995-04-01

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Weight:15.2 oz

Publisher's Note
We have lost our grip on historical truth. Popular films depict subterranean conspiracies that shape historical events and public knowledge of those events. Best-selling narrative histories dissolve the border between fact and fiction, allowing the author's imagination to roam freely. Influential critics dissolve the author herself into one among many sources of meaning, reducing historical knowledge to a series of texts engaged with each other, not with the past. Powerful constituencies call for histories that affirm more than inform. This new book by three of our most accomplished historians 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, as they put it, in her long climb, notebook computer in tow, up the 300 stairs to the archives in Lyon. 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 coherent narrative of the American past that incorporates its multicultural dimension without special pleading.

Industry Reviews
"A confident, breezy account of the historical profession's encounters with post-modernism and multi-culturalism....At once a vindication of historical knowledge against skeptical and relativist doubts and a popular history of the process by which these doubts came into being."
David A. Hollinger

"A wise and moderate book. The authors, all distinguished historians..., speak with confidence about the value of both the historian's traditional craft and modern criticisms of it. Their sane and readable discussion should give hope to [those] who...believe in the possibility--even the pleasure--of writing history."
Caroline W. Bynum

"A very timely and effective reply to those who wish to undermine history."
Christopher Hill

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