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The Virtuous Circle of Facts and Values in the New Western History

Kearns, Gerry·1998·Annals of the Association of American Geographers
DOI 10.1111/0004-5608.00106
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The relations between facts and values in the writing of historical geography need to be mutual and reinforcing. I explore this point by examining the work of a group of historians who have foregrounded the relations between facts and values. These New Western Historians take up themes such as social justice, regionalism, and environmentalism that have been central to the concerns of historical geographers, but they are more explicit than many historical geographers about both the political motivations behind the questions they ask and their choice of subjects to study. I consider the work of two historians, William Cronon and Donald Worster, who have made environmentalism the core of their historical writing, and two others, Richard White and Patricia Limerick, for whom questions of social justice inform historical interpretation. I conclude by exploring how attention to the interplay between facts and values might rekindle the utopian dimension of explicitly political historical geographies.

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Authors
Kearns, G.
Venue
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
1998-09
Volume
88
Issue
3
Pages
377-409
ISSN
  • 0004-5608
  • 1467-8306
DOI
10.1111/0004-5608.00106
Cited by
18
References
76
Language
en

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