Truth in History

Truth in History
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Total Pages : 464
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ISBN-10 : 1412840503
ISBN-13 : 9781412840507
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Download or read book Truth in History written by and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work in both the social history of professional historians, and a sociology of knowledge study of how and why a discipline surrenders the search for truth in favor of assertions of ideological purity. In a frenzied effort to cope with exaggerated claims that the study of history is the high road to statesmanship, citizenship, and good neighbors, historians struggled to innovate. Some became radicalized and threatened to tear the world apart, but the more common response was the assertion that the subject would equip citizens to solve current and future policy problems.


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