Abstract
Joyce Appleby has written an extensive amount on the origins and development of capitalism, but her work is influenced by her belief that history is a science with at least some objectivity. She rejects Marxism as a relic of past historians with naïve beliefs about finding the laws of nature, but she also rejects postmodern criticisms of history because they undermine any chance for objectivity. Appleby believes the historian can be objective even if politics necessarily colors his or her work. For Appleby, her support of capitalism leads her to make policy recommendations with her historiography, recommendations that change with the problems capitalism faces.
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Anderson, Patrick D.
(2012)
"Capitalism and the Science of History: Appleby, Marx, and Postmodernism,"
Grand Valley Journal of History: Vol. 1:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
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https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/gvjh/vol1/iss2/1
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