Truth in History

By - Handlin, Oscar

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Taylor and Francis, London, 2017

ISBN 10 - 1560009519

ISBN 13 - 9781560009511

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Historiography

Shelf No - 1

Call Number - 907.2 HAN

Physical Description - 437 pages

Notes - Includes Index

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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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