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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 March 2011
      30 September 1988
      ISBN:
      9780511816345
      9780521343282
      9780521357456
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511816345
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.125kg, 664 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.88kg, 662 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (13)
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    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (13)
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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 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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and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.

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    ‘A brilliant and fascinating book.’

    Laurence Veysey

    ‘A judicious appraisal of men and circumstances, erudite and wide-ranging. Irreverent but not nastily irreverent, with an admirable delicacy of touch.’

    William H. McNeill

    ‘An astute and provocative account of how the historical profession in America has dealt with its founding myth and central norm - the ideal of objectivity.’

    Dorothy Ross

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