Telling The Truth About History
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Telling The Truth About History
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Author : Joyce Appleby
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2011-02-14
Telling The Truth About History written by Joyce Appleby and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-14 with History categories.
"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist
Telling The Truth About History
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Author : Joyce Oldham Appleby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Telling The Truth About History written by Joyce Oldham Appleby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Telling The Truth About History
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Author : Joyce Oldham Appleby
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1994
Telling The Truth About History written by Joyce Oldham Appleby and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."--Booklist
Truth Telling
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Author : Henry Reynolds
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-01
Truth Telling written by Henry Reynolds and has been published by NewSouth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-01 with History categories.
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that 'peaceful settlement' was a fiction? If the 1901 parliament did not have control of the whole continent, particularly the North, by what right could the new nation claim it? The historical record shows that the argument of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is stronger than many people imagine and the centuries-long legal position about British claims to the land far less imposing than it appears. In Truth-Telling, influential historian Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical assumptions, with his usual sharp eye and rigour, in a book that's about the present as much as the past. His work shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future.
The Truth Of History
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Author : C. Behan McCullagh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11-01
The Truth Of History written by C. Behan McCullagh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with History categories.
Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the 'truth' of history. This book considers how all historians, confined by the concepts and forms of argument of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past. The Truth of History presents a study of various historical explanations and interpretations and evaluates their success as accounts of the past. C. Behan McCullagh contests that the variety of historical interpretations and subjectivity does not exclude the possibility of their truth. Through an examination of the constraints of history, the author argues that although historical descriptions do not mirror the past they can correlate with it in a regular and definable way. Far from debating in the abstract and philosophical only, the author beds his argument in numerous illuminating concrete historical examples. The Truth of History explores a new position between the two extremes of believing that history perfectly represents the past and that history can tell us nothing true of the past.
History A Very Short Introduction
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Author : John H. Arnold
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2000-02-24
History A Very Short Introduction written by John H. Arnold and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-24 with History categories.
There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past. Concepts such as causation, interpretation, and periodization, are introduced by means of concrete examples of how historians work, giving the reader a sense of the excitement of discovering not only the past, but also ourselves. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Truth
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Author : Tom Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-09-26
Truth written by Tom Phillips and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-26 with History categories.
'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN' Greg Jenner This is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it. We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn't even know what's true, and doesn't care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don't trust experts any more. But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future? PRAISE FOR HUMANS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW WE F*CKED IT ALL UP: 'F*cking brilliant' Sarah Knight, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck 'Very funny' Mark Watson 'In dark times, it's reassuring to learn that we've always been a bunch of clueless f*cking nitwits' Stuart Heritage, Don't Be a Dick, Pete 'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining' Telegraph
Lies My Teacher Told Me
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Author : James W. Loewen
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-10-16
Lies My Teacher Told Me written by James W. Loewen and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-16 with Education categories.
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.
The Truth About Stories
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Author : Thomas King
language : en
Publisher: House of Anansi
Release Date : 2003-11-01
The Truth About Stories written by Thomas King and has been published by House of Anansi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
Truth Has A Power Of Its Own
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Author : Howard Zinn
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2019-09-03
Truth Has A Power Of Its Own written by Howard Zinn and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with Political Science categories.
American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself—and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn’s hundredth birthday Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the late Howard Zinn and “an eloquently hopeful introduction for those who haven’t yet encountered Zinn’s work” (Booklist). Here is an unvarnished, yet ultimately optimistic, tour of American history—told by someone who was often an active participant in it. Viewed through the lens of Zinn’s own life as a soldier, historian, and activist and using his paradigm-shifting A People’s History of the United States as a point of departure, these conversations explore the American Revolution, the Civil War, the labor battles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, U.S. imperialism from the Indian Wars to the War on Terrorism, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the fight for equality and immigrant rights—all from an unapologetically radical standpoint. Longtime admirers and a new generation of readers alike will be fascinated to learn about Zinn’s thought processes, rationale, motivations, and approach to his now-iconic historical work. Zinn’s humane (and often humorous) voice—along with his keen moral vision—shine through every one of these lively and thought-provoking conversations. Battles over the telling of our history still rage across the country, and there’s no better person to tell it than Howard Zinn.