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.
Author(s): Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Anne Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 222
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Endorsement Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Advisory for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers
Chapter 1: Good histories
Scaling the ethics of history
My argument: the ethics of history is effort, Ethos
My journey in this book: the ethics of history is practical
Notes
Primary texts
Chapter 2: Universal histories and virtue ethics: Elias Lönnrot | Herodotus | Diodorus Siculus | Paulus Orosius | Rashı̄d al-Dı̄n Ṭabı̄b | Atâ-Malek Juvayni | Aristotle
Dynamic virtue ethics
Herodotus and pre-Socratic ethics
Universal histories and ethos
Dawla : turning on the virtues in history making in the Islamic World
Back to Oulu
Notes
Primary texts
Chapter 3: Collective biographies and utilitarian ethics: Liu Xiang | Fan Ye | Mary Hays | Lucy Aikin | Sarah Strickney Ellis | Mary Cowden Clarke | Jeremy Bentham | John Stuart Mill
Utilitarian ethics
Women’s collective biographies
Classical Chinese collective biographies
Back to Middletown
Notes
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Chapter 4: Philosophical world histories and deontological ethics: Immanuel Kant | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Thomas Hill Green | Robin George Collingwood | Kitarō Nishida | Hajime Tanabe | Keiji Nishitani
Deontological ethics
Nesting histories and ethics
Opening up to the smallest history
Back to Bugis
Notes
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Chapter 5: Little world histories and sentiment ethics: Jawaharlal Nehru | Eileen and Rhoda Power | Ernst Gombrich | John Newbery | Franco-Suisse | Adam Smith | David Hume
Sentiment ethics
Writing you into world history
Creating children’s world histories
Back to Frankton
Notes
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Chapter 6: Global histories and cosmopolitan ethics: H. G. Wells | Charles Morazé and Georges-Henri Dumont | Leften Stavrianos | Sebastian Conrad | Kwame Anthony Appiah | Martha Nussbaum | Onora O’Neill
Cosmopolitan ethics
From world to global history
Returning to Old San Juan
Notes
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Chapter 7: Microhistories and social contract ethics: Carlo Ginzburg | Natalie Zemon Davis | István M. Szijártó | Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon | Claire Judde de Larivière | John Rawls | David Gauthier | Charles W. Mills | Carol Pateman
Social contract ethics
Singling out microhistory
An uneven multiscope
Sizing up justice
Back to Oxford
Notes
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Chapter 8: Slice histories and infinite ethics: Boubacar Boris Diop | Tierno Monénembo | Véronique Tadjo | Abdourahman A. Waberi | Garrett Graff | Mitchell Zuckhoff | Richard Drew | Henry Singer | David Hein | Irene Sankoff | Emmanuel Levinas
Infinite ethics
Slicing through mass violence and genocide
Back to New York
Notes
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Chapter 9: Big histories and information ethics: Fernand Braudel | David Christian | Jared Diamond | John R. McNeill | William H. McNeill | Luciano Floridi | Katherine Bode
Information ethics
Big informational histories
More than one level of abstraction
Back to Munich
Notes
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Chapter 10: Non-human histories and entanglement ethics: Mark Kurlansky | Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan | Sven Beckert | Stephen Budiansky| Donna Haraway | Karen Barad | Gerardo Beni | Jing Wang
Entanglement ethics
Writing the human from the non-human
From entities and abstractions to tangles and swarms
Returning to Hobart
Notes
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Chapter 11: Indigenous histories and place ethics: Written with Aunty Anne MartinJakelin Troy | Linda Tuhiwai Smith | Karin Amimoto Ingersoll | Sandra D. Styres | Deborah Bird Rose
Hello, my brother
Singing up the ethics of history
Niina Marni?
Notes
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Chapter 12: One angel? Scaling the ethics of history
Notes
Bibliography
Index
