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WHAT A GOOD, if overdue, idea: judging history by its content of common sense and context rather than Left, Right, postmodern and so on and on. The effect, judging by John Hirst's Sense and Nonsense in Australian History, is to make most recent attempts to bend history in favoured directions rather than a straight line seem second-rate and gimmicky. He is saying, in effect, that history just has to be mostly about dead white males, the people who dominate economic and social changes, however many might wish it otherwise.
He also seems to be saying that "left-wing" history sounds good in principle, has had a good run in recent decades but without producing much of ...
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