The History Wars - Softcover

Macintyre, Stuart; Clark, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0522851282 ISBN 13: 9780522851281

Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 2004

Synopsis

The nation's history has probably never been more politicised than it is today. Politicians, journalists, columnists, academics and Australians from all walks of life argue passionately—and often, ideologically—about the significance of the national story: the cherished ideal of the 'fair go', the much contested facts of Indigenous dispossession, the Anzac legend, and the nation's strategic alliance with the United States. Historians have become both combatants and casualties in this war of words.

In The History Wars, Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark explore how this intense public debate has polarised the nation and paralysed history departments. This edition includes a new afterword by Stuart Macintyre which recounts, with rueful irony, the outbreak of controversy that followed the book's original publication, and the further light it shed on the uses and abuses of Australian history.

About this title

About the Author:

Stuart Macintyre is Ernest Scott Professor of History. Dean of Arts and Laureate Professor an the University of Melbourne. His books include A Colonial Liberalism (MUP); The Oxford History of Australia, vol.4; and The Reds: The Communist Party of Australiafrom Origins to Illegality.

Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Public History at the University of Technology Sydney.

About this edition

• Publisher: Melbourne University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0522851282
• ISBN 13: 9780522851281
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 310