Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography

ISBN-13: 9780367023553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 222 str.

Marnie Hughes-Warrington; Anne Martin

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Good Histories  2. Universal Histories and Virtue Ethics  3. Collective Biographies and Utilitarian Ethics  4. Philosophical World Histories and Deontological Ethics  5. Little World Histories and Sentiment Ethics  6. Global Histories and Cosmopolitan Ethics  7. Microhistories and Social Contract Ethics  8. Slice Histories and Infinite Ethics  9. Big Histories and Information Ethics  10. Non-Human Histories and Entanglement Ethics  11. Indigenous Histories and Place Ethics with Anne Martin  12. One Angel? Scaling the Ethics of History