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Author Clark, Anna, 1978- Editor

Title Australian history now / edited by Anna Clark and Paul Ashton
Published Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2013
Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2013
©2013

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 MELB  994 Cla/Ahn  DUE 27-04-24
Description 317 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Making Aboriginal history / Peter Read -- 2.Labour history and radical nationalism / Stuart Macintyre -- 3.A feminist voice / Ann Curthoys -- 4.Oral history / Alistair Thomson -- 5.War without end / Peter Stanley -- 6.History in the academy / Alan Atkinson -- 7.History goes to school / Paul Kiem -- 8.History in museums / Mathew Trinca -- 9.The history wars / Anna Clark -- 10.Public history / Paul Ashton -- 11.My heritage trail / Graeme Davison -- 12.History in communities / Martha Sear -- 13.Sex, lies and history on TV / Clare Wright -- 14.The trouble with history / Tony Birch -- 15.Seeing the forest and the trees / Tom Griffiths -- 16.Histories across borders / Marilyn Lake -- 17.New cultural history and Australia's colonial past / Leigh Boucher
Summary Australian history has changed drastically over the last fifty years and has found itself at the centre of heated and consuming public debates. So how do historians themselves read this history? Where do they see themselves in these momentous shifts in historical reading and writing? With contributions from prominent historians including Marilyn Lake, Tom Griffiths, Peter Stanley and Ann Curthoys, Australian History Now offers revealing and refreshing accounts of the ways Australian historians think about the nation's past. 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
Analysis All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
Australian
Modern history (c 1788-1914) (Australia)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 304) and index
Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate, General
Subject Barak, William, Yarra Yarra chief, 1824-1903
Blainey, Geoffrey, 1930-
Coe, Les
Grenville, Kate, 1950- The secret river
Huggins, Jackie.
Maynard, John, 1954-
Pascoe, Bruce, 1947-
Reynolds, Henry, 1938-
Windschuttle, Keith, 1942-
National Museum of Australia.
SUBJECT Ten Canoes (Motion picture : 2008)
The Secret River 2005
Subject Aboriginal Australian historians
Aboriginal Australians -- History.
Historiography -- Australia.
Racism -- Australia -- History.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
Author Ashton, Paul, 1959- editor
Clark, Anna, 1978- editor
ISBN 9781742233710