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.
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.
Preface Introduction: nailing jelly to the wall Part I. Objectivity Enthroned: 1. The European legacy: Ranke, Bacon, Flaubert 2. The professionalization project 3. Consensus and legitimation 4. A most genteel insurgency Part II. Objectivity Besieged: 5. Historians on the home front 6. A changed climate 7. Professionalism stalled 8. Divergence and dissent 9. The battle joined Part III. Objectivity Reconstructed: 10. The defense of the West 11. A convergent culture 12. An autonomous profession Part IV. Objectivity in Crisis: 13. The collapse of comity 14. Every group its own historian 15. The center does not hold 16. There was no king in Israel Appendix: manuscript collections cited Index.
Preface Introduction: nailing jelly to the wall Part I. Objectivity Enthroned: 1. The European legacy: Ranke, Bacon, Flaubert 2. The professionalization project 3. Consensus and legitimation 4. A most genteel insurgency Part II. Objectivity Besieged: 5. Historians on the home front 6. A changed climate 7. Professionalism stalled 8. Divergence and dissent 9. The battle joined Part III. Objectivity Reconstructed: 10. The defense of the West 11. A convergent culture 12. An autonomous profession Part IV. Objectivity in Crisis: 13. The collapse of comity 14. Every group its own historian 15. The center does not hold 16. There was no king in Israel Appendix: manuscript collections cited Index.
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