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Big and Little Histories Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Monash University, Australia)

Big and Little Histories By Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Monash University, Australia)

Big and Little Histories by Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Monash University, Australia)


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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.

Big and Little Histories Summary

Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography by Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Monash University, Australia)

  • Shows the relationship of ethics and historiography over time and in different cultural settings, and so helps readers to appreciate the different ways in which historians have thought about how the world ought to be and helps readers to appreciate how the boundaries between ethical theories can be fuzzy.
  • Written for those new to, or with little familiarity with historiography, so makes very complex questions easy to understand.
  • Introduces readers to both well-known and lesser-appreciated historians and ethical theorists, ensuring they have a variety of case studies upon which to draw in their own work.

Big and Little Histories Reviews

What does it mean to do history ethically? Marnie Hughes-Warrington's book examines this question from a variety of different vantage points, ingeniously linking the continued effort of approaching our pasts morally to the scale and scope by which we comprehend and represent those pasts. Whether it be from the perspective of microhistory, Big history, and everything in between, Hughes-Warrington deploys an assortment of examples from antiquity to 9/11. She thereby raises important issues that have bearing not only on how we engage ethically and empathetically with the world as it was but also with the world as it is and may yet become.

Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Canada

In eminently readable prose, Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Anne Martin take us on a magisterial tour of how narrating the past sheds light on the choices that face us in the present. There's no cookie-cutter way to write the past. Every single choice entails the denial of others. Yet together, the kaleidoscopic range of historical writing offers a vital guide to the never-ending work of leading the good life. Big and Little Histories is an indispensable guide in this process.

Sam Wineburg, Stanford University, USA

This is an astonishingly agile and stimulating book. It scales heights and depths and zooms in and out, scoping histories from the micro level of minutes to the macro of millennia, as it explores the proposition that Aristotle's modelling of ethics as practical, inexact and plural can help us think productively about histories as much as ethics and about the interactions between them. The book is a history and an exposition of a range of ethical theories - addressing virtue, utilitarian, deontological, cosmopolitan ethics, infinite, entanglement ethics and much more. Equally, it is an exploration of varieties of historiography, including microhistory, children's histories, global histories, collective biographies, and indigenous histories. It is also a sustained reflection on the ethical implications of the form of history telling - exploring circular narrative structures, first and second-personal histories, universal philosophical histories, reflexive histories and much else besides. It does all this with admirable clarity and lightness of touch. The book communicates an infectious curiosity about the rich complexities of human and animal pasts - ranging over slice histories of moments, didactic thumb bibles, Big Histories of 13.8 billion years, snowball hurling, oxygen holocausts, and swarm histories written by algorithms. Its chapters enact their arguments, scale-shifting themselves and anchoring insights in particular moments and in grand narrative arcs. It is both highly readable and cries out to be read and re-read. It will be enjoyed with great profit by students of history and students of philosophy and is an argument by example for closer dialogue between the two.

Arthur Chapman, Associate Professor History in Education, UCL Institute of Education, UK

Big and Little Histories is stimulating reading that imaginatively integrates the theories and problems of ethics with the histories of different sizes and shapes across the globe. This is an important book, because it not only argues that ethics is foundational for the writing of history, but also explains how ethics as individual responsibility is relevant and present in this practice.

Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen, University of Oulu, Finland

About Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Monash University, Australia)

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.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NLS9780367023553
9780367023553
0367023555
Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography by Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Monash University, Australia)
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-08-20
222
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