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 …
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 …
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 bo…
Content: Foreword: Imagination and Fact : A Lover's Quarrel / Frank Ankersmit -- The Quarrel Begins? -- Romancing the Past : Presence and Intangibilities of History -- Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation : History and Memory -- Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? Th…
Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the 'non-historian' as an 'able' interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current …
'Staying up late' : Plutarch's reading of Xenophon / Philip Stadter -- The Renaissance reception of Xenophon's Spartan constitution : preliminary observations / Noreen Humble -- A delightful retreat : Xenophon and the picturesque / Tim Rood -- Strauss on Xenophon / David M. John…
Xenophon: ethical principles and historical enquiry
by Tuplin, Christopher, Hobden, Fiona
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