History Wars
2nd Edition
Published on 31. May 2013
312 pages
978-0-522-86377-2 (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.
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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Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. She has written extensively on history education, historiography and historical consciousness, including Teaching the Nation: Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History (2006); History's Children: History Wars in the Classroom (2008); Private Lives, Public History (2016); The History Wars (2003) with Stuart Macintyre, as well as two history books for children, Convicted! and Explored! Reflecting her love of fish and fishing, she also recently wrote The Catch: The Story of Fishing in Australia (2018).
Content
- Intro
- PRAISE FOR THE HISTORY WARS
- THE HISTORY WARS
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CHAPTER 1 HISTORY UNDER FIRE
- CHAPTER 2 WHAT DO HISTORIANS DO?
- CHAPTER 3 WHAT DO THEY SAY?
- CHAPTER 4 THE HISTORIAN UNDER FIRE: MANNING CLARK
- CHAPTER 5 THE HISTORIAN BETRAYED: GEOFFREY BLAINEY
- CHAPTER 6 BICENTENARY BATTLES
- CHAPTER 7 'RELAXED AND COMFORTABLE'
- CHAPTER 8 FRONTIER CONFLICT
- CHAPTER 9 WHAT DO THEY TEACH OUR CHILDREN?
- CHAPTER 10 WORKING THROUGH THE MUSEUM'S LABELS
- CONCLUSION
- AFTERWORD
- SOURCES
- 1 HISTORY UNDER FIRE
- 2 WHAT DO HISTORIANS DO?
- 3 WHAT DO THEY SAY?
- 4 THE HISTORIAN UNDER FIRE: MANNING CLARK
- 5 THE HISTORIAN BETRAYED: GEOFFREY BLAINEY
- 6 BICENTENARY BATTLES
- 7 'RELAXED AND COMFORTABLE'
- 8 FRONTIER CONFLICT
- 9 WHAT DO THEY TEACH OUR CHILDREN?
- 10 WORKING THROUGH THE MUSEUM'S LABELS
- CONCLUSION
- AFTERWORD
- INDEX
