History and Morality

Author:   Donald Bloxham (Richard Pares Professor of History, Richard Pares Professor of History, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198858713


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   16 July 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Donald Bloxham (Richard Pares Professor of History, Richard Pares Professor of History, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.614kg
ISBN:  

9780198858713


ISBN 10:   019885871
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   16 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Contemplating Historical Actors in Context 2: Writing History: Problems of Neutrality 3: Justifying Judgement on Things Past 4: History, Identity, and the Present Bibliography of Works Cited

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These works of outstanding scholarship are of value to anyone curious to consider the uses and pitfalls of history in a present forever parasitic on the past. * Alexandre Leskanich, TLS * Bloxham['s] digressions and byways are often as rich as the main thread of the argument...History and Morality ought to achieve wide readership. * Professor Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Reviews in History *


Bloxham['s] digressions and byways are often as rich as the main thread of the argument...History and Morality ought to achieve wide readership. * Professor Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Reviews in History *


Not since the days of Cambridge don Herbert Butterfield has an Anglophone historian so interestingly taken up the history of his own discipline and the problem of historical judgment the way that Donald Bloxham does in these twin volumes ... Bloxham should be praised * Samuel Moyn, Intellectual History Review * These works of outstanding scholarship are of value to anyone curious to consider the uses and pitfalls of history in a present forever parasitic on the past. * Alexandre Leskanich, TLS * Bloxham['s] digressions and byways are often as rich as the main thread of the argument...History and Morality ought to achieve wide readership. * Professor Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Reviews in History *


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Donald Bloxham has taught at Edinburgh University since 2001. He was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2007 and given the established Richard Pares chair of history in 2011. Beyond his work on the history and philosophy of the discipline of history, he is a specialist in the study of genocide and of the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. His book The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (OUP, 2005) won the Raphael Lemkin Prize for genocide scholarship. He has also been a recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and is currently on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

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