That Noble Dream: The 'objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession by Peter Novick

That Noble Dream: The 'objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession

Ideas in Context

Peter Novick

664 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative slow-paced
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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 o...

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