Past imperfect : facts, fictions, and fraud : American history from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin / Peter Charles Hoffer.

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Hovedforfatter: Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944-
Format: Bog
Sprog:English
Udgivet: New York : PublicAffairs, c2004.
Udgivelse:1st ed.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • I: Facts and fictions
  • The rise of consensus history
  • Professions of history
  • The new history and its promoters
  • In the eye of the storm
  • II: Fraud
  • Falsification: the case of Michael Bellesiles
  • Plagiarism: the cases of Stephen Ambrose and Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Fabrication: the case of Joseph Ellis
  • The future of the past.