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On the Use & Abuse of Australian History

On the Use & Abuse of Australian History

QE69

by Mark McKenna
Paperback
Publication Date: 19/03/2018

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Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. Indigenous recognition and a new push for a republic await action.

Judging by the Captain Cook statue controversy, though, our debates about the past have never been more fruitless. Is there a way beyond the history wars that began under John Howard? And in an age of free-floating fears about the global, digital future, is history any longer relevant, let alone equal to the task of grounding the nation?

In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the frontier, the Anzac legacy and deep time. He drags some fascinating new scholarship into the light, and pushes the debate about history beyond the familiar polarities.

ISBN:
9781760640507
9781760640507
Category:
Australasian & Pacific history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
19-03-2018
Publisher:
Black Inc.
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
69th Edition
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
233x167x14mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Mark McKenna

Mark McKenna is one of Australia’s leading historians. A research fellow in History at the University of Sydney, he is the author of several prize winning books, including Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: an Australian History of Place, which won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction and Book of the Year in the 2003 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

His essays and articles have been widely published in Australia and overseas. Seven years in the making, his biography of Manning Clark is his most ambitious project to date.

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