
The History Wars
Melbourne University Press
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 15. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
310 pages
978-0-522-85128-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Carlton
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-522-85128-1 (9780522851281)
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Stuart Macintyre | Anna Clark
History Wars
E-Book
05/2013
2nd Edition
Simon + Schuster LLC
€13.56
Available for download
Persons
Stuart Macintyre is Ernest Scott Professor of History, Dean of Arts and Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. His books include A Colonial Liberalism; A History for a Nation (MUP); The Oxford History of Australia, vol. 4; and The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from Origins to Illegality. Anna Clark is a doctoral student at the University of Melbourne engaged on a study of school history.