Inga Clendinnen : selected writings / / edited by James Boyce

• Pubblicazione: Carlton, Victoria : , : La Trobe University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Disciplina: 823.914
• Soggetto topico: Authors, Australian
• Persona (resp. second.): ClendinnenInga
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Inga Clendinnen
• ISBN: 1-74382-147-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910794425503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II