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History as an alibi. .(the importance of truthfulness in historical scholarship)(Critical Essay)
IT SHOULD NOT SURPRISE that the publication of Keith Windschuttle s meticulously well-researched, courageous and illuminating volume on the fabrication of Aboriginal history has attracted so much attention, for this is without doubt one of the important books of our time and is clearly destined to mark a profound and lasting change in the intellectual history of Australia. It has most certainly earned the admiration of thoughtful scholars here and abroad, but it has also been scrutinised by detractors as full of passionate intensity as they seem bereft of worthy counter-arguments, who have found it necessary to stray beyond the bounds of decency and propriety in melancholy ...
- A prehistory of Australia's History Wars: the evolution of Aboriginal history...
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Veracini, Lorenzo September 1, 2006 700+ words
...practitioners of Aboriginal history form a coherent...this phase "Aboriginal history" and "Aboriginal...the end, while Aboriginal history was authoritatively...feature of this historical scholarship. However, the...
- Reassuring "White Australia": a Review of The Fabrication of Aboriginal...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Smithers, Gregory D.B. December 22, 2003 700+ words
...The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. (4) The Fabrication of Aboriginal History is the first volume...last thirty years of historical scholarship that, since the...essay that placed Aboriginal history since 1788 in the...
- The return of postmodernism in aboriginal history.(History)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Windschuttle, Keith April 1, 2006 700+ words
...Attwood, Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History, 2005, p 95 No Australian historian...Attwood, Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History, 2005, p 92 ... the concept of...political outcomes). --Bain Attwood, Aboriginal History, 2001, p 171 [his emphasis] HOW...
- The row over Australian Aboriginal history.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Inroads: A Journal of Opinion Muecke, Stephen June 22, 2003 700+ words
...ugly infighting among scholars of Aboriginal history in Australia. The quarrel goes to...media and in history textbooks. Aboriginal history is a relatively new field (a journal...missionary influence. The rise of Aboriginal history coincided with other social forces...
- Peopling the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal history in western Central Australia...
- Magazine article from: Australian Aboriginal Studies Green, Neville September 22, 2006 700+ words
...Peopling the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal history in western Central Australia 1850-1980 Michael A Smith Aboriginal History, Canberra (Monograph 12...in the excellent series of Aboriginal History monographs which have covered...
- Truths all over the place.(Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Haines, Gregory January 1, 2006 700+ words
Telling the Truth about Aboriginal History, by Bain Attwood; Allen...progress to attend to the Aboriginal history war. He entered upon this...academic history, he sees the Aboriginal history war in crisp political terms...
- 2005 Aboriginal History Calendar inside.(Wind Speaker)
- Newspaper article from: Windspeaker December 1, 2004 700+ words
...publication up and give it a shake your Windspeaker 2005 Aboriginal History Calendar should fall out from the pages. The calendar...which first got involved with the calendar to bring Aboriginal history to a wider audience. "We continue to be involved because...
- Keith Windschuttle and aboriginal history.
- Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs Stove, R.J. September 22, 2003 700+ words
...title of which speaks for itself: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Volume One, covering Van Diemen's Land up to 1847...a scarifying embarrassment to panjandrums of official Aboriginal history: chief of them Henry Reynolds and the younger, less...
