Title Big and little histories : sizing up ethics in historiography / Marnie Hughes-Warrington, with Anne Martin

Edition First edition Published [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages) Contents 1. Good Histories2. Universal Histories and Virtue Ethics3. Collective Biographies and Utilitarian Ethics4. Philosophical World Histories and Deontological Ethics5. Little World Histories and Sentiment Ethics6. Global Histories and Cosmopolitan Ethics7. Microhistories and Social Contract Ethics8. Slice Histories and Infinite Ethics9. Big Histories and Information Ethics10. Non-Human Histories and Entanglement Ethics11. Indigenous Histories and Place Ethics with Anne Martin12. One Angel? Scaling the Ethics of History Summary This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written and how those views relate to different understandings of ethics. No two histories are the same. The book argues that this is a good thing because the differences between histories are largely a matter of ethics. Looking to histories made across the world and from ancient times until today, readers are introduced to a wide variety of approaches to the ethics of history, including well-known ethical approaches, such as the virtue ethics of universal historians, and utilitarian approaches to collective biography writing while also discovering new and emerging ideas in the ethics of history. Through these approaches, readers are encouraged to challenge their ideas about whether humans are separate from other living and non-living things and whether machines and animals can write histories. The book looks to the fundamental questions posed about the nature of history making by Indigenous history makers and asks whether the ethics at play in the global variety of histories might be better appreciated in professional codes of conduct and approaches to research ethics management. Opening up the topic of ethics to show how historians might have viewed ethics differently in the past, the book requires no background in ethics or history theory and is open to all of those with an interest in how we think about good histories Notes Marnie Hughes-Warrington is Deputy-Vice Chancellor Research and Enterprise at the University of South Australia and Visitor at the School of History, Australian National University, Australia. She is the author of several historiography texts, including Fifty Key Thinkers on History (three editions), History Goes to the Movies (2007) and History as Wonder (2018). Anne Martin is Director of the Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre at the Australian National University, Australia. She is an Aboriginal rights activist and educator who is dedicated to changing the future for our next generation of leaders Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Historiography -- Moral and ethical aspects Historians -- Professional ethics Historiography. historiography. HISTORY -- Historiography. PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy. Historians -- Professional ethics Historiography -- Moral and ethical aspects Form Electronic book Author Martin, Anne, author ISBN 9780429399992 0429399995 9780429681196 0429681194 9780429681202 0429681208 9780429681219 0429681216

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