The Historian's Conscience Australian Historians on the Ethics of History,9780522851397

The Historian's Conscience Australian Historians on the Ethics of History

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ISBN13: 9780522851397
ISBN10: 0522851398
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-10-01
Publisher(s): Melbourne University Press
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Summary

Exploring pivotal questions of their profession, this collection of essays by 13 well-known Australian scholars presents the ethical challenges of researching and writing history. Including contributions from Alan Atkinson, Graeme Davison, Greg Dening, John Hirst, Beverley Kingston, Marilyn Lake, and Iain McCalman, this personally revealing and intellectually provocative introspection discusses such dilemmas as how to handle emotional investments in the subject, control sympathies and biases, and address the responsibilities historians have to both their subject and their audience.

Author Biography

Stuart Macintyre is the Ernest Scott Professor of History, the dean of arts, and a laureate professor at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of A Colonial Liberalism, A History for a Nation, The History Wars, The Oxford History of Australia, Volume Four, and The Reds.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Contributors xi
Introduction 1(16)
Stuart Macintyre
Do good historians have feelings?
17(11)
Alan Atkinson
The emotions of history
28(12)
Joy Damousi
Living with and in deep time
40(9)
Greg Dening
A historian in the museum: The ethics of public history
49(15)
Graeme Davison
Inclusive histories
64(11)
Rhys Isaac
A plea from the peripheries for modesty
75(9)
Beverley Kingston
Changing my mind
84(10)
John Hirst
On history and politics
94(12)
Marilyn Lake
Almost believing: The ethics of historical imagination
106(12)
Penny Russell
Discoveries made in the archives
118(8)
Fiona Paisley
Whose history?
126(13)
Glenda Sluga
History and global identity
139(12)
David Christian
Flirting with fiction
151(11)
Iain Mccalman
Index 162

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