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History and Morality (Paperback)
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History and Morality (Paperback)
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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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