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That Noble Dream: The ´Objectivity Question´ and the American Historical Profession
Peter Novick
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Paperback. Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Series Editor(s): Skinner, Quentin; Daston, Lorraine; Ross, Dorothy; Tully, James. Series: Ideas in Context. Num Pages: 662 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 892. The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession. Series: Ideas in Context. 662 pages, index. Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFCX. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 36. Weight: 892. Series Editor(s) :Skinner, Quentin; Daston, Lorraine; Ross, Dorothy; Tully, James.
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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and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 ... Read more
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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
662
Condition
New
Series
Ideas in Context
Number of Pages
662
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521357456
SKU
V9780521357456
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Reviews for That Noble Dream: The ´Objectivity Question´ and the American Historical Profession
'A brilliant and fascinating book.' Laurence Veysey 'A judicious appraisal of men and circumstances, erudite and wide-ranging. Irreverent but not nastily irreverent, with an admirable delicacy of touch.' William H. McNeill 'An astute and provocative account of how the historical profession in America has dealt with its founding myth and central norm - the ideal of objectivity.' Dorothy Ross