History and Morality

History and Morality
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780198858713
ISBN-13 : 019885871X
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Book Synopsis History and Morality by : Donald Bloxham

Download or read book History and Morality written by Donald Bloxham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against majority opinion within his profession, Donald Bloxham argues that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important for historians to make value judgements about the past. History and Morality draws on a wide range of historical examples, and its author's insights as a practicing historian. Examining concepts like impartiality, neutrality, contextualisation, and the use and abuse of the idea of the past as a foreign country, Bloxham's book investigates how far tacit moral judgements infuse works of history, and how strange those histories would look if the judgements were removed. The author argues that rather than trying to eradicate all judgemental elements from their work, historians need to think more consistently about how, and with what justification, they make the judgements that they do. The importance of all this lies not just in the responsibilities that historians bear towards the past - responsibilities to take historical actors on those actors' own terms and to portray the impact of those actors' deeds - but also in the role of history as a source of identity, pride, and shame in the present. The account of moral thought in History and Morality has ramifications far beyond the activities of vocational historians.


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