Sense and nonsense in Australian history (Black Inc. Agenda Ser.)
History
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
Sense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime’s original reflection by one of Australia’s most innovative and penetrating historians. Included here are classic essays on the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism and colonial culture. There are also celebrated critiques of… The Tyranny of Distance, multiculturalism and narrowly nationalistic history, as well as a substantial new essay on Aboriginal dispossession and the history wars. In these essays, John Hirst blends the intimacy of the insider with the objectivity usually only available to the outsider, resulting in Australian history seen at once from within and without. In Sense and Nonsense in Australian History, John Hirst overturns familiar conceptions and deepens our sense of Australia’s development from convict society to distinctive democracy.