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

Eminent contributors include Alan Atkinson, Graeme Davison, Greg Dening, John Hirst, Beverley Kingston, Marilyn Lake, and Iain McCalman. They not only ask but answer the hard questions about writing and researching history. How do historians choose their histories? What sort of emotional investment do they make in their subjects, and how do they control their sympathies? How do they deal with unpalatable discoveries? To whom are historians responsible? And for whom are they entitled to speak? Intellectually provocative, often personally revealing, always engaged, The Historian's Conscience is a 'must read'.

Author: Stuart MacIntyre
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: 10/01/2004
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.16w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9780522851397
ISBN10: 0522851398
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- History | Australia & New Zealand | General
- History | Historiography

About the Author
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.