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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as wel...
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 Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writing of hundreds of American historians, this book is a richly textured account of what American historians have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. Published with the support of the Exxon Education Foundation.
作者简介
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彼得·诺维克（Peter Novick）出生于1934年，是美国著名的历史学家，曾在芝加哥大学等多所大学任教。他的著作包括《抵抗运动与维希政府》（The Resistance Versus Vichy, 1968）、《美国生活中的大屠杀》（The Holocaust: in American Life, 1999；此书在美国之外的地区则以《大屠杀与集体记忆》为名发行）等等。后者使得诺维克大大地出名，成为公众注目的人物，因为这部有关德国犹太人大屠杀记忆的详实历史分析著作，特别关注大屠杀被构造、被植入集体记忆的政治过程和特定历史社会因素，由此备受争议，在各色犹太人团体当中更是一片批评之声，引发范围极广的大屠杀讨论。
彼得·诺维克（Peter Novick）出生于1934年，是美国著名的历史学家，曾在芝加哥大学等多所大学任教。他的著作包括《抵抗运动与维希政府》（The Resistance Versus Vichy, 1968）、《美国生活中的大屠杀》（The Holocaust: in American Life, 1999；此书在美国之外的地区则以《大屠杀与集体记忆》为名发行）等等。后者使得诺维克大大地出名，成为公众注目的人物，因为这部有关德国犹太人大屠杀记忆的详实历史分析著作，特别关注大屠杀被构造、被植入集体记忆的政治过程和特定历史社会因素，由此备受争议，在各色犹太人团体当中更是一片批评之声，引发范围极广的大屠杀讨论。
不过，在学术界，诺维克的代表作则是1988年出版的《那高尚的梦想：“客观性问题”与美国历史学界》（That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession），此书当年获得美国历史学家协会授予的著作大奖，被认为是一部“才华横溢的奇妙之作”。
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Preface
Introduction: nailing jelly to the wall
Part I. Objectivity Enthroned:
1. The European legacy: Ranke, Bacon, Flaubert
2. The professionalization project
3. Consensus and legitimation
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Preface
Introduction: nailing jelly to the wall
Part I. Objectivity Enthroned:
1. The European legacy: Ranke, Bacon, Flaubert
2. The professionalization project
3. Consensus and legitimation
4. A most genteel insurgency
Part II. Objectivity Besieged:
5. Historians on the home front
6. A changed climate
7. Professionalism stalled
8. Divergence and dissent
9. The battle joined
Part III. Objectivity Reconstructed:
10. The defense of the West
11. A convergent culture
12. An autonomous profession
Part IV. Objectivity in Crisis:
13. The collapse of comity
14. Every group its own historian
15. The center does not hold
16. There was no king in Israel
Appendix: manuscript collections cited
Index
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回想起来，我读过的第一篇英文学术论文，是在史学理论课上的翻译作业“Fragmentation and the Future of Historiography” 。那就是AHR1991年对Novick这本书专题讨论的论文。可以说That Noble Dream是我所知道的第一本英文史学专著，可是一直没有读过原著。12年前我连那篇文章也读不懂，现在的我，或许有进步了吧。。客观性当然是本书的主题，但是...回想起来，我读过的第一篇英文学术论文，是在史学理论课上的翻译作业“Fragmentation and the Future of Historiography” 。那就是AHR1991年对Novick这本书专题讨论的论文。可以说That Noble Dream是我所知道的第一本英文史学专著，可是一直没有读过原著。12年前我连那篇文章也读不懂，现在的我，或许有进步了吧。。客观性当然是本书的主题，但是我更关注本书关于美国史学专业化的介绍和讨论。我希望不久将来，中国的史学也能发展出类似的专业学术共同体。(展开)
Such an important topic, such a huge and dense book. It's interesting to realize that the fragmentation among historians parallels the "coming apart" of the American society in general. But I wonder i...Such an important topic, such a huge and dense book. It's interesting to realize that the fragmentation among historians parallels the "coming apart" of the American society in general. But I wonder if the sense of past unity is actually an illusion--nostalgia for the imaginary "good old days", and the result of increasing social diversity.(展开)
Peter Novick's That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession is an intricate and honest work that discusses the exact theme in the descriptive part of the title. It was published by Cambridge University Press under Idea...
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Cambridge University Press1988版
4 有用 sanbilly 2014-02-11 02:38:14
回想起来，我读过的第一篇英文学术论文，是在史学理论课上的翻译作业“Fragmentation and the Future of Historiography” 。那就是AHR1991年对Novick这本书专题讨论的论文。可以说That Noble Dream是我所知道的第一本英文史学专著，可是一直没有读过原著。12年前我连那篇文章也读不懂，现在的我，或许有进步了吧。。客观性当然是本书的主题，但是... 回想起来，我读过的第一篇英文学术论文，是在史学理论课上的翻译作业“Fragmentation and the Future of Historiography” 。那就是AHR1991年对Novick这本书专题讨论的论文。可以说That Noble Dream是我所知道的第一本英文史学专著，可是一直没有读过原著。12年前我连那篇文章也读不懂，现在的我，或许有进步了吧。。客观性当然是本书的主题，但是我更关注本书关于美国史学专业化的介绍和讨论。我希望不久将来，中国的史学也能发展出类似的专业学术共同体。 (展开)
1 有用 ttttAsO 2018-08-22 01:21:16
还没完全读完，先来打个分～p387 historian at least as much an artist as he is a social scientist
0 有用 Praetoria 2016-05-23 15:11:43
非常不noble地给一个辛苦分。
0 有用 sharpy 2011-09-17 08:34:56
Peter Novick寫這本書的時候是芝加哥大學的教授，可是這本書的內容並不真的很平衡，多數的討論集中在東岸的學校，中西部的學校彷彿不存在。年鑒學派似乎也沒被提及。
0 有用 辛维木 2014-09-15 13:21:37
Such an important topic, such a huge and dense book. It's interesting to realize that the fragmentation among historians parallels the "coming apart" of the American society in general. But I wonder i... Such an important topic, such a huge and dense book. It's interesting to realize that the fragmentation among historians parallels the "coming apart" of the American society in general. But I wonder if the sense of past unity is actually an illusion--nostalgia for the imaginary "good old days", and the result of increasing social diversity. (展开)