, . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: C. Behan McCullaghFormat: Paperback Number of Pages: 336Modern relativism and postmodern thought in culture and language challenge the "truth" of history. This text considers how all historians, confined by the concepts and forms of argument of their own cultures, can still discover truths about the past. Presenting a study of various historical explanations and interpretations, this book evaluates their success as accounts of the past. The author 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 a regular and definable way. The book explores a position between the two extremes of believing that history perfectly represents the past and that history can tell us nothing true of the past.

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Title: The Truth of History
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415171113
ISBN 13: 9780415171113
Binding: Secondhand, Paperback
Book Type: Secondhand, Paperback

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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.

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C. Behan McCullagh has been a lecturer in History at Melbourne University and currently lectures in Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia

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