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UNINA9910463128803321 |
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Australian history now / / edited by Anna Clark and Paul Ashton |
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Sydney, New South Wales : , : NewSouth, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-74224-157-3 |
1-74224-658-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Historiography - Australia |
Electronic books. |
Australia History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Making Aboriginal History; 2. Labour History and Radical Nationalism; 3. A Feminist Voice; 4. Oral History; 5. War Without End; 6. History in the Academy; 7. History goes to School; 8. History in Museums; 9. The History Wars; 10. Public History; 11. My Heritage Trail; 12. History in Communities; 13. Sex, Lies and History on TV; 14. The Trouble with History; 15. Seeing The Forest and The Trees; 16.Histories Across Borders; 17.New Cultural History and Australia's Colonial Past; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Australian history has changed drastically over the last fifty years and has found itself at the centre of heated and consuming public debates. Australian History Now is an engaging and often surprising introduction to the ways we understand and write our history in academic, popular and school books, argue about it in the media, present it in museums and watch it on television. At its heart it shows that the way we remember our past reflects how we see ourselves in the present. So how do historians themselves read this history? Where do they see themselves in these momentous shifts in histori |
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