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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813143803321

Titolo

Australian history now / / edited by Anna Clark and Paul Ashton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, New South Wales : , : NewSouth, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-74224-157-3

1-74224-658-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

907.2094

Soggetti

Historiography - Australia

Australia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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