Sense and nonsense in Australian history / John Hirst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirst, John (John Bradley), 1942-2016, author.

Series:

Black Inc. Agenda series.

Black Inc. Agenda series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australia--Historiography.

Australia.

Australia--History--Miscellanea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

Melbourne, Victoria : Black Inc. Agenda, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime's original reflection by Australia's most innovative and penetrating historian. Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture. There are celebrated critiques of The Tyranny of Distance, multiculturalism and nationalistic history, as well as a substantial essay on Aboriginal dispossession and the history wars.In Sense and Nonsense in Australian History, John Hirst overturns familiar conceptions and deepens our sense of Australia's development from convict society to distinctiv

Contents:

COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: CHANGING MY MIND; WHAT SORT OF HISTORY?; AUSTRALIA'S ABSURD HISTORY; DISTANCE - WAS IT A TYRANT?; WOMEN AND HISTORY; AUSTRALIAN HISTORY AND EUROPEAN CIVILISATION; HOW SORRY CAN WE BE?; WHAT SORT OF NATION?; CONVICT SOCIETY; TRANSFORMATION ON THE LAND; COLONIAL SOCIETY; EGALITARIANISM; THE PIONEER LEGEND; FEDERATION: DESTINY AND IDENTITY; LABOR AND CONSCRIPTION; THE GALLIPOLI LANDING; THE COMMUNIST THREAT; WHO TUGGED THE FORELOCK?; TOWARDS THE REPUBLIC; FIVE FALLACIES OF ABORIGINAL POLICY

THE DISTINCTIVENESS OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACYENVOI: DIVERSITY AND UNITY; PUBLICATION DETAILS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 28, 2014).

ISBN:

1-921825-40-5

OCLC:

898100954