Truth in History

By Oscar Handlin

Book Overview

A professional critique of the tendency in academic scholarship to prove worth, which becomes relevance and which in turn is interpreted as a search not for truth but political correctness. Handlin explores the social history of historians and how and why a discipline surrenders the search for truth in favour of assertions of ideological purity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674910257
• ISBN13: 9780674910256
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 437 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.