02853nam 2200553 450 991081582630332120230721034723.01-921825-40-5(CKB)3710000000113111(EBL)1887499(SSID)ssj0001330147(PQKBManifestationID)11753452(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001330147(PQKBWorkID)11333963(PQKB)10838390(MiAaPQ)EBC1887499(Au-PeEL)EBL1887499(CaPaEBR)ebr10870897(OCoLC)898100954(EXLCZ)99371000000011311120140529h20092009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSense and nonsense in Australian history /John HirstMelbourne, Victoria :Black Inc. Agenda,2009.©20091 online resource (316 p.)Black Inc. Agenda seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-9775949-3-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 POLICYTHE DISTINCTIVENESS OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACYENVOI: DIVERSITY AND UNITY; PUBLICATION DETAILSSense 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 distinctivBlack Inc. Agenda series.AustraliaHistoriographyAustraliaHistoryMiscellanea994Hirst John(John Bradley),1942-2016,751675MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815826303321Sense and nonsense in Australian history4122346UNINA