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9781742235264 :
Title
The Honest History book / edited by David Stephens & Alison Broinowski.
Cover title
Honest history book : Australia is more than Anzac - and always has been.
Publisher and/or associated date/s
Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2017.
©2017
Description
xix, 344 pages ; 21 cm.
Note
Includes index.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-325) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- Part I: Putting Anzac in its place -- 2. Other people's war: The Great War in a world context -- 3. 24 April 1915: Australia's Armenian story over a century -- 4. Adaptable Anzac: past, present and future -- 5. The Australian War Memorial: beyond bean -- 6. 'We too were Anzacs': were Vietnam veterans ever truly excluded from the Anzac tradition? -- 7. Myth and history: the persistent 'Ataturk words' -- 8. A century of bipartisan commemoration: is Anzac politically inevitable? -- 9. Anzac and Anzackery: useful future or sentimental dream? -- Part II: Australian stories and silences -- 10. Fires, droughts and flooding rains: environmental influences on Australian history -- 11. From those who've come across the seas: immigration and multiculturalism -- 12. Bust and boom: what economic lessons has Australia learned? -- 13. 'Fair go' nation? Egalitarian myth and reality in Australia -- 14. Australian heroes: some military mates are more equal than others -- 15. Hidden by the myth: women's leadership in war and peace -- 16. Settlement or invasion? The coloniser's quandary -- 17. Our most important war: the legacy of frontier conflict -- 18. King, Queen and contry: will Anzac thwart republicanism? -- 19 Australia's tug of war: militarism versus independence -- 20. Conclusion.
Summary
In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity? The passionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia - mostly for its impact on our citizens and our ideas of nationhood - we must question the stories we tell ourselves about our history. We must separate myth from reality - and to do that we need to reassess the historical evidence surrounding military myths. In this lively collection, renowned writers including Paul Daley, Mark McKenna, Peter Stanley, Carolyn Holbrook, Mark Dapin, Carmen Lawrence, Stuart Macintyre, Frank Bongiorno and Larissa Behrendt explore not only the militarisation of our history but the alternative narratives swamped under the khaki-wash - Indigenous history, frontier conflict, multiculturalism, the myth of egalitarianism, economics and the environment.
Subjects
World War, 1914-1918
Historiography -- Australia
Militarism -- Australia
Anzac Day
World War, 1914-1918 -- Monuments -- Australia
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons
Stephens, David H.
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Broinowski, Alison, 1941 -
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2017.107
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