| Author |
Novick, Peter, 1934-2012,
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| Series |
Ideas in context |
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Ideas in context.
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| Subject |
Historiography -- United States.
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Objectivity.
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| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 648 pages). |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed September 2, 2020). |
| 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, 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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and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 to be doing, when they wrote history - how their principles influenced their practice and practical exigencies influenced their principles."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Nailing jelly to the wall -- Objectivity enthroned. The European legacy: Ranke, Bacon, Flaubert ; The professionalization project ; Consensus and legitimation ; A most genteel insurgency -- Objectivity besieged. Historians on the home front ; A changed climate ; Professionalism stalled ; Divergence and dissent ; The battle joined -- Objectivity reconstructed. The defense of the West ; A convergent culture ; An autonomous profession -- Objectivity in crisis. The collapse of comity ; Every group its own historian ; The center does not hold ; There was no king in Israel -- Appendix: Manuscript collections cited. |
| ISBN |
9781107266773 (electronic bk.) |
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1107266777 (electronic bk.) |
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9781107263208 (ebook) |
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1107263204 (ebook) |
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9780511816345 |
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0511816340 |
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9780521343282 (hardback) |
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0521343283 (hardback) |
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9780521357456 (paperback) |
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0521357454 (paperback) |
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9789686914658 (print) |
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968691465X (print) |
| OCLC # |
861693011 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Novick, Peter, 1934-2012. That noble dream. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1988 0521343283 (DLC) 88002606 (OCoLC)17441827 |
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