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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794425503321

Titolo

Inga Clendinnen : selected writings / / edited by James Boyce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carlton, Victoria : , : La Trobe University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-74382-147-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 pages)

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

Authors, Australian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note from the Editor -- Introduction -- Encounters in Australia -- 1. Incident on a Beach -- 2. Spearing the Governor -- 3. Barangaroo -- 4. A Sinister Dance -- 5. Reading Mr Robinson -- 6. Inside the Contact Zone -- 7. Postcard from Townsville -- Mesoamerican Explorations -- 8. Tenochtitlan: The Public Image -- 9. Defeat -- 10. 'Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty': Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico -- 11. Crisis in the Yucatán -- 12. Landscape and World View: The Survival of Yucatec Maya Culture under Spanish Conquest -- Facing Gorgon -- 13. Beginnings -- 14. Adolf Eichmann -- 15. The Auschwitz SS -- 16. Representing the Holocaust: The Case for History -- 17. Building Treblinka -- On History and Writing -- 18. Agamemnon's Kiss -- 19. Mr Howard Wants a Structured Narrative -- 20. History and National Unity -- 21. Understanding the Heathen at Home: E.P. Thompson and His School -- 22. Backstage at the Republic of Letters -- On Life -- 23. At the Beach -- 24. In a Tiger Landscape -- 25. St Elsewhere -- 26. Liver Transplant No. 108 -- 27. Breaking the Mirror: From the Aztec Spring Festival to Organ Transplantation -- 28. Epilogue -- Notes -- Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

An internationally celebrated historian and highly original thinker, Inga Clendinnen compelled readers to re-examine accepted histories from new angles.