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History wars : the Peter Ryan - Manning Clark controversy. /

'In 1993, Manning Clark came under severe (posthumous) attack in the pages of Quadrant by none other than Peter Ryan, who had published five of the six volumes of Clark's epic A History of Australia. In applying what he called "an overdue axe to a tall poppy", Ryan lambasted the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Munro, Doug (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, [2021].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Wider setting. 1. Manning Clark and Peter Ryan ; 2. The Australian History Wars
  • Part 2. Contention and dissension. 3. Criticisms, reaction and counter-reaction ; 4. Errors, great and small ; 5. Justified or not? ; 6. A complicit academy?
  • Part 3. Ruminations. 7. Deliberation: Manning Clark and the History Wars ; 8. Reflection: Peter Ryan's motives ; 9. Aftermath: The dissembling publisher, Quadrant and the History Wars.