Overview
This text examines the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that a model of historical research, based on neutrality and objectivity, served historians well until World War II. After that post-modernism suggested history could not reveal the truth about the past and the rise of social history produced a great amount of statistics which effectively swamped the search for historical truth.
- | Author: Joyce Appleby
- | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- | Publication Date: Apr 01, 1995
- | Number of Pages: 336 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0393312860
- | ISBN-13: 9780393312867
