LEADER 02853nam 2200553 450 001 9910815826303321 005 20230721034723.0 010 $a1-921825-40-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000113111 035 $a(EBL)1887499 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001330147 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11753452 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001330147 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11333963 035 $a(PQKB)10838390 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1887499 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1887499 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10870897 035 $a(OCoLC)898100954 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000113111 100 $a20140529h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSense and nonsense in Australian history /$fJohn Hirst 210 1$aMelbourne, Victoria :$cBlack Inc. Agenda,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 225 1 $aBlack Inc. Agenda series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-9775949-3-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCOVER 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 327 $aTHE DISTINCTIVENESS OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACYENVOI: DIVERSITY AND UNITY; PUBLICATION DETAILS 330 $aSense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime's original reflection by Australia's most innovative and penetrating historian. Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture. There are celebrated critiques of The Tyranny of Distance, multiculturalism and nationalistic history, as well as a substantial essay on Aboriginal dispossession and the history wars.In Sense and Nonsense in Australian History, John Hirst overturns familiar conceptions and deepens our sense of Australia's development from convict society to distinctiv 410 0$aBlack Inc. Agenda series. 607 $aAustralia$xHistoriography 607 $aAustralia$xHistory$vMiscellanea 676 $a994 700 $aHirst$b John$g(John Bradley),$f1942-2016,$0751675 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815826303321 996 $aSense and nonsense in Australian history$94122346 997 $aUNINA