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That noble dream : the "objectivity question" and the American historical profession / Peter Novick.
Penn Museum Library D13.5.U6 N68 1988
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LIBRA D13.5.U6 N68 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Novick, Peter, 1934-2012.
- Series:
- Ideas in context
- Ideas in context.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--United States.
- Historiography.
- United States.
- Objectivity.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 648 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- 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, Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521343283
- 0521357454
- OCLC:
- 17441827
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