TY  - BOOK
AU  - Novick,Peter
TI  - That noble dream: the "objectivity question" and the American historical profession 
T2  - Ideas in context
SN  - 9781107266773
AV  - D13.5.6 
PY  - 1988///.]
CY  - Cambridge [England]
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Historiography
KW  - United States
KW  - Objectivity
KW  - Objetividad
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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 was elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the past century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book is a richly textured account of what American historians have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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