The Use and Abuse of Australian HistoryAllen & Unwin, 2000 - 326 עמודים This collection of engaging and vigorous essays examine what makes the 'history business' tick. Davison demonstrates that Australia's history can be relevant to the issues we confront everyday at the governmental level, at work, and in our communities. |
תוכן
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three new lands | 56 |
The broken lineage of family | 80 |
makes a building historic? | 131 |
Has school history lost | 178 |
The uses of local history | 197 |
The historical vision | 221 |
Unnatural rights | 238 |
Is history useful? | 258 |
Notes | 276 |
Index | 302 |
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Aboriginal abuses of history American antiquarian Anzac architectural argue Australian history Ballarat bear arms become Bicentenary Blainey British Canberra celebrations Chapter Charles Bean church civic claims colonial conservative critical cultural democratic Drucker economic example family history firearms Genealogist genealogy Geoffrey Blainey Glenrowan Graeme Davison heritage heroes heroic historians Historic Buildings Historic Buildings Council historical significance Historical Society honour idea ideals identity imagination inspired John land managers Maori Mary Durack Melbourne Melbourne's memory ment modern monumental history moral museums narrative National Estate National Trust Ned Kelly once organisation past patriotic perhaps Peter political politicians preservation professional recent recognised reinforce right to bear Robert Menzies sense social South Wales Sovereign Hill statue story Stuart Macintyre suburbs Sydney symbol textbooks tion Tony Bennett town traditional Treaty twentieth century values Victorian Victorian Historical visitors Voyage Weary Dunlop writes young Zealand
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עמוד 29 - This, for reasons which it will be worth while some time to inquire into, is an age that as it were denies the existence of great men; denies the desirableness of great men. Show our critics a great man, a Luther for example, they begin to what they call 'account' for him; not to worship him, but take the dimensions of him, — and bring him out to be a little kind of man! He was the 'creature of the Time...
עמוד 136 - ... connects forgotten and following ages with each other, and half constitutes the identity, as it concentrates the sympathy, of nations ; it is in that golden stain of time, that we are to look for the real light, and colour, and preciousness of architecture...
עמוד 135 - For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy, nay, even of approval or condemnation, which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. It is in their lasting witness against men, in their quiet contrast with the transitional character of all things, in the strength which, through the lapse of seasons and times, and the...
עמוד 29 - This seems to me but melancholy work. The Time call forth? Alas, we have known Times call loudly enough for their great man; but not find him when they called! He was not there; Providence had not sent him; the Time, calling its loudest, had to go down to confusion and wreck because he would not come when called.
עמוד 4 - We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.
עמוד 69 - We got into Port Jackson early in the afternoon, and had the satisfaction of finding the finest harbour in the world, in which a thousand sail of the line may ride in the most perfect security.
עמוד 29 - Time,' they say; the Time called him forth, the Time did everything, he nothing — but what we the little critic could have done too!
עמוד 277 - Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (New York: WW Norton, 1994); Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988); and James T.
עמוד 51 - If it is a monument it is not modern, and if it is modern, it cannot be a monument