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Novick, Peter

That noble dream : the "objectivity question" and the American historical profession / Peter Novick. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1988. - xii, 648 p. ; 24 cm. - Ideas in context .

Introduction: Nailing jelly to the wall pp 1-18
I - Objectivity enthroned pp 19-20
1 - The European legacy: Ranke, Bacon, Flaubert pp 21-46
2 - The professionalization project pp 47-60
3 - Consensus and legitimation pp 61-85
4 - A most genteel insurgency pp 86-108
II - Objectivity besieged pp 109-110
5 - Historians on the home front pp 111-132
6 - A changed climate pp 133-167
7 - Professionalism stalled pp 168-205
8 - Divergence and dissent pp 206-249
9 - The battle joined pp 250-278
III - Objectivity reconstructed pp 279-280
10 - The defense of the West pp 281-319
11 - A convergent culture pp 320-360
12 - An autonomous profession pp 361-412
IV - Objectivity in crisis pp 413-414
13 - The collapse of comity pp 415-468
14 - Every group its own historian pp 469-521
15 - The center does not hold pp 522-572
16 - There was no king in Israel pp 573-629
Appendix: Manuscript collections cited pp 630-632
Index

ISBN: 0521357454 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Historiography--United States.
Objectivity.

Dewey Class. No.: 907.2073 NOV