Big and Little Histories

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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