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Title The honest history book / edited by David Stephens & Alison Broinowski
Published Coogee, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2017
Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2017
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Description xix, 344 pages ; 21 cm
Contents 12. Bust and boom: What economic lessons has Australia learned? / Stuart Macintyre -- 13. "Fair go" nation?: Egalitarian myth and reality in Australia / Carmen Lawrence -- 14. Australian heroes: Some military mates are more equal than others / Peter Stanley -- 15. Hidden by the myth: Women's leadership in war and peace / Joy Damousi -- 16. Settlement or invasion?: The coloniser's quandary / Larissa Behrendt -- 17. Our most important war: The legacy of frontier conflict / Paul Daley -- 18. King, Queen and country: Will ANZAC thwart republicanism? / Mark McKenna -- 19. Australia's tug of war: Militarism versus independence / Alison Broinowski -- 20. Conclusion / Alison Broinowski & David Stephens
Introduction / David Stephens & Alison Broinowski -- PART 1: Putting ANZAC in its place -- 2. Other people's war: The Great War in a world context / Douglas Newton -- 3. 24 April 1915: Australia's Armenian story over a century / Vicken Babkenian & Judith Crispin -- 4. Adaptable ANZAC: Past, present and future / Carolyn Holbrook -- 5. The Australian War memorial: Beyond Bean / Michael Piggott -- 6. "We too were ANZACs": Were Vietnam veterans ever truly excluded from the ANZAC tradition? / Mark Dapin -- 7. Myth and history: The persistent "Atatürk words" / David Stephens & Burçin Ҫakir -- 8. A century of bipartisan commemoration: Is ANZAC politically inevitable? / Frank Bongiorno -- 9. ANZAC and Anzackery: Useful future or sentimental dream? / David Stephens -- PART 2: Australian stories and silences -- 10. Fires, droughts and flooding rains: Environmental influences on Australian history / Rebecca Jones -- 11. From those who've come across the seas: immigration and multiculturalism / Gwenda Tavan --
Summary In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity? The passionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia - mostly for its impact on our citizens and our ideas of nationhood - we must question the stories we tell ourselves about our history. We must separate myth from reality - and to do that we need to reassess the historical evidence surrounding military myths. In this lively collection, renowned writers including Paul Daley, Mark McKenna, Peter Stanley, Carolyn Holbrook, Mark Dapin, Carmen Lawrence, Stuart Macintyre, Frank Bongiorno and Larissa Behrendt explore not only the militarisation of our history but the alternative narratives swamped under the khaki-wash - Indigenous history, frontier conflict, multiculturalism, the myth of egalitarianism, economics and the environment
Analysis Australian
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-325) and index
Subject Anzac Day.
Australians -- Attitudes.
Militarism -- Australia -- History.
Historiography -- Australia.
Military history -- Australia.
Monuments -- Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Influence.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Monuments -- Australia.
World War, 1914-1918.
SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009594
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005863
Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
Author Broinowski, Alison, editor
Stephens, David H., editor
LC no. 2017431581
ISBN 9781742235264
Other Titles Honest history book : Australia is more than Anzac - and always has been