458 Pages
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Routledge
458 Pages
by
Routledge
437 Pages
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Routledge
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Like scholars in other fields, historians have long occupied themselves in self-justification. In a society which calibrates all measures by a single standard, the proof of scientific worth became relevance, which in turn was interpreted as a search not for truth but for political correctness. In a blistering professional critique of this tendency in academic scholarship, perhaps the first of its... Read more
Personal Reflections on a Calling; 1 A Discipline in Crisis; 2 Living in a Valley; The Central Themes of American History; 3 A History of American History; 4 Theories of Historical Interpretation; 5 Historical Criticism; 6 An Instance of Criticism; Dealing with the Evidence; 7 How to Read a Word; 8 How to Count a Number; 9 Seeing and Hearing; 10 History in a World of Knowledge; Persistent Themes and Hard Facts; 11 Political Theory and Popular Thought; 12 Man and Magic; 13 Good Guys and Bad; 14 The Two-Party System; The Uses of History; 15 The Diet of a Ravenous Public; 16 Ethnicity and the New History; 17 The Uses of History
Biography
Oscar Handlin
