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Truths all over the place.(Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History)(Book Review)
Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History, by Bain Attwood; Allen & Unwin, 2005, $35.
BAIN ATTWOOD obviously deemed this an urgent book. He set aside work in progress to attend to the Aboriginal history war. He entered upon this, as his title might suggest, to resolve the issue, to deal finally with Keith Windschuttle, and to justify what he regards as the new history. He outlined three motives.
He believed the war "could have serious consequences for both historical understanding and public life". As an academic historian, he felt a responsibility to act "when severe public criticisms are made of the scholarship done [sic] in their field of ...
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