| That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession Contributor(s): Novick, Peter (Author), Skinner, Quentin (Editor), Tully, James (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521343283 ISBN-13: 9780521343282 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1988 Annotation: 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 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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book is a richly textured account of what American historians have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. Published with the support of the Exxon Education Foundation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historiography - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 907.207 |
| LCCN: 88002606 |
| Series: Ideas in Context |
| Physical Information: 1.63" H x 6" W x 9" (2.51 lbs) 664 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book is a richly textured account of what American historians have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. Published with the support of the Exxon Education Foundation. |