Truth In History

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface: The Abuses of History -- Part I: Personal Reflections on a Calling -- Chapter 1. A Discipline in Crisis -- Chapter 2. Living in a Valley -- Part II: The Central Themes of American History -- Chapter 3. A History of American History -- Chapter 4. Theories of Historical Interpretation -- Chapter 5. Historical Criticism -- Chapter 6. An Instance of Criticism -- Part III: Dealing with the Evidence -- Chapter 7. How to Read a Word -- Chapter 8. How to Count a Number -- Chapter 9. Seeing and Hearing -- Chapter 10. History in a World of Knowledge -- Part IV: Persistent Themes and Hard Facts -- Chapter 11. Political Theory and Popular Thought -- Chapter 12. Man and Magic -- Chapter 13. Good Guys and Bad -- Chapter 14. The Two-Party System -- Part V: The Uses of History -- Chapter 15. The Diet of a Ravenous Public -- Chapter 16. Ethnicity and the New History -- Chapter 17. The Uses of History -- Acknowledgments -- Index

• • Author: Oscar Handlin
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Feb 28, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 458 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138539953
• • ISBN-13: 9781138539952