{"product_id":"that-noble-dream-the-objectivity-question-and-the-american-historical-profession-paperback-9780521357456","title":"That Noble Dream; The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Paperback) 9780521357456","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThat Noble Dream\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNovick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Novick (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521357456, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 30 September 1988\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e662 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.88 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians from J. Franklin Jameson and Charles Beard to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: nailing jelly to the wall\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Objectivity Enthroned: 1. The European legacy: Ranke, Bacon, Flaubert\u003cbr\u003e 2. The professionalization project\u003cbr\u003e 3. Consensus and legitimation\u003cbr\u003e 4. A most genteel insurgency\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Objectivity Besieged: 5. Historians on the home front\u003cbr\u003e 6. A changed climate\u003cbr\u003e 7. Professionalism stalled\u003cbr\u003e 8. Divergence and dissent\u003cbr\u003e 9. The battle joined\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Objectivity Reconstructed: 10. The defense of the West\u003cbr\u003e 11. A convergent culture\u003cbr\u003e 12. An autonomous profession\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Objectivity in Crisis: 13. The collapse of comity\u003cbr\u003e 14. Every group its own historian\u003cbr\u003e 15. The center does not hold\u003cbr\u003e 16. There was no king in Israel\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: manuscript collections cited\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46000524525848,"sku":"9780521357456","price":32.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521357456i_77eca626-4e18-456a-8125-1ddac1c88e95.jpg?v=1691375655","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/that-noble-dream-the-objectivity-question-and-the-american-historical-profession-paperback-9780521357456","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}