The Abacus of History. "The History Wars" by Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark and "Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History" By Robert Manne (ed) [review]
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2003-10
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Birch, Tony
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Australian Book Review
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Both "Whitewash" and "The History Wars" suggest that the discipline of history in Australia is a battlefield for the nation’s hearts and minds. But, more explicitly, it is a plaything for particular ideological forces. At present, we have a group of populist conservatives waging not a history war but a propaganda one — and a cultural and political struggle. It is an issue for all of us, not just historians.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Indigenous people, Aborigine, Quadrant, Peggy Patrick, Greg Lehman, Henry Reynolds, Lyndall Ryan, British, James Boyce, revisionist colonial history, Mabo, neo-colonial, revisionism, A. Dirk Moses, Christopher Pearson, Greg Lehman, Melbourne University, 1988 Bicentenary, black armband, Manning Clark, Geoffrey Blainey, Greg Melleuish, All for Australia, Tony Birch
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Birch, Tony 2003. The Abacus of History. Review of "The History Wars" by Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark and "Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History" By Robert Manne (ed). 'Australian Book Review', No 255, October, 9-10.