The History Wars - Softcover

Macintyre, Stuart; Clark, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0522851282 ISBN 13: 9780522851281

Verlag: Melbourne University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

A new edition of the book that sparked months of intense debate about the way historians, politicians and others choose to interpret the Australian story. The nation's history has probably never been more politicised than it is today. Politicians, journalists, columnists, academics and Australians from all walks of life argue passionately-and often, ideologically-about the significance of the national story: the cherished ideal of the 'fair go', the much contested facts of Indigenous dispossession, the Anzac legend, and the nation's strategic alliance with the United States. Historians have become both combatants and casualties in this war of words. In The History Wars, Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark explore how this intense public debate has polarised the nation and paralysed history departments. This edition includes a new afterword by Stuart Macintyre which recounts, with rueful irony, the outbreak of controversy that followed the book's original publication, and the further light it shed on the uses and abuses of Australian history.

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Stuart Macintyre was Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. His previous works include A Proletarian Science, Winners and Losers: The Pursuit of Social Justice in Australian History, Volume 4 of the Oxford History of Australia and A Colonial Liberalism.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Melbourne University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0522851282
• ISBN 13: 9780522851281
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar