That Noble Dream : The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession
by
Peter Novick
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Ideas in Context
ISBN-10
0521357454
ISBN-13
9780521357456
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 30th, 1988
Print length
662 Pages
Weight
946 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.40 x 3.60 cms
Product Classification:
History of ideasHistory of ideas
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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.
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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and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.
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