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HISTORY WARS windschuttle and reynolds (1 Viewer)
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BronwynKate
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No, I haven't - as I am in Victoria and did my VCE some years before you, if you look at my profile. (No history, sadly - my school only offered Revolutions and I was more interested in Australian history and modern European history).
I think you could read Robert Manne's Whitewash. He is a clear writer and a good historian. You can also read some of his mentors at La Trobe University. They all have Germanic names which will come to the tip of my tongue.
There are several books in the library about history wars.
I think the Reynolds-Windschuttle arguments are very much in the core of histiography.
However, only having read second-hand material about their works does not put me in a particularly good position to judge.
I think Windschuttle wrote The Fabrication of Australian History 1 and 2. I have not a clue what Reynolds wrote.
There is a good chapter in The Electronic Whorehouse by Paul Sheehan about the whole History Wars issue. It is from a Media Studies perspective, but it will be applicable to your work. Margo Kingston may have made some comments as well, and she is easy to find.
Maybe compare to what more orthodox historians like Blainey have done.
Do you have any access to historical journals or associations? I would check those out first after I had exhausted the extent to what I could do in my own time.
History is all about enquiry. These men are shutting out enquiry. That is my belief and feeling anyway.
I think you could read Robert Manne's Whitewash. He is a clear writer and a good historian. You can also read some of his mentors at La Trobe University. They all have Germanic names which will come to the tip of my tongue.
There are several books in the library about history wars.
I think the Reynolds-Windschuttle arguments are very much in the core of histiography.
However, only having read second-hand material about their works does not put me in a particularly good position to judge.
I think Windschuttle wrote The Fabrication of Australian History 1 and 2. I have not a clue what Reynolds wrote.
There is a good chapter in The Electronic Whorehouse by Paul Sheehan about the whole History Wars issue. It is from a Media Studies perspective, but it will be applicable to your work. Margo Kingston may have made some comments as well, and she is easy to find.
Maybe compare to what more orthodox historians like Blainey have done.
Do you have any access to historical journals or associations? I would check those out first after I had exhausted the extent to what I could do in my own time.
History is all about enquiry. These men are shutting out enquiry. That is my belief and feeling anyway.