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Genre/Form: | Historiografía |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joyce Oldham Appleby; Lynn Avery Hunt; Margaret C Jacob |
ISBN: | 0393036154 9780393036152 0393312860 9780393312867 |
OCLC Number: | 318451328 |
Description: | 322 p. ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob. |
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"It is hard to think of three historians better equipped to deal with threats to the discipline of history ... [which] is being fundamentally challenged in new ways." -- Gordon S. Wood "A wise and moderate book. The authors, all distinguished historians ... ,speak with confidence about the value of both the historian's traditional craft and modern criticism of it. Their sane and readable discussion should give hope to [those] who ... believe in the possibility-even the pleasure-of writing history." -- Caroline Walker Bynum "A confident, breezy account of the historical profession's encounters with post-modernism and multiculturalism." -- David A. Hollinger Read more...

