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Author Novick, Peter, 1934-2012.

Title That noble dream : the "objectivity question" and the American historical profession / Peter Novick
Published Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1988

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 W'PONDS  907.2073 Nov/Ndt  AVAILABLE
Description xii, 648 pages ; 24 cm
Series Ideas in context
Ideas in context.
Contents The European legacy : Ranke, Bacon, Flaubert -- The professionalization project -- Consensus and legitimation -- A most genteel insurgency -- Historians on the home front -- A changed climate -- Professionalism stalled -- Divergence and dissent -- The battle joined -- The defense of the West -- A convergent culture -- An autonomous profession -- The collapse of comity -- Every group its own historian -- The center does not hold -- There was no king in Israel
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Historiography -- United States.
Objectivity.
LC no. 88002606
ISBN 0521343283
0521357454