Does Australian history have a future?

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 118, 2002, Pages 140-152

  Curthoys, Ann ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 34248154549     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314610208596187     Document Type: Review

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1. I wish to thank the following people for their assistance with this article: Desley Deacon, Tim Rowse, Tom Griffiths, and Fiona Paisley. The history of Australian history is canvassed at greater length in Ann Curthoys, 'Cultural History and the Nation', in Australian Cultural History, eds Hsu- Ming Teo and Richard White, forthcoming
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27. The critiques of Turner's thesis in American historiography are many. See Sacvan Bercovitch, The American Jeremiad (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978) for a rival interpretation, stressing Puritan consciousness of Native American land as truly belonging to white settler Americans as God's chosen people
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36. Kirsten McKenzie, Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Cape Town, 1800-1850, (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, forthcoming)
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46. See also chapters by Stephen Garton and Ann Curthoys in T.G. Ashplant, Graham Dawson, and Michael Roper, eds, The Politics of War Memory and Commemorations (London: Routledge, 2000)
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48. see Alison Bashford and Claire Hooker, eds. Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (London: Routledge, 2001)
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50. Patricia Grimshaw, Katie Holmes, and Marilyn Lake, eds. Women's Rights and Human Rights: International Historical Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
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52. Fiona Paisley, 'Introduction', Australian Feminist Studies 16, no. 36 (November, 2000): 271
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56. Catherine Hall, ed., Cultures of Empire: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Routledge, 2000)
57. Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002)
58. Tony Ballantyne, 'Empire, Knowledge and Culture: From Proto-Globalization to Modern Globalization', in Globalization in World History, ed. A.G. Hopkins (London: Pimlico, 2002), 115-40
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68. Bringing Them Home: National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families (Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 1997)
69. Henry Reynolds, An Indelible Stain: The Question of Genocide in Australia's History (Melbourne: Penguin, 2001)
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71. Martin Krygier, 'Neighbours: Poles, Jews and the Aboriginal Question', Australian Book Review (April 2002): 37-43
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73. See, for example, the books in the Australian Ethnic Heritage Series, all published by Ae Press in Melbourne in 1986: Michael Cigler, The Afghans In Australia
74. Ray Aitchison, The Americans In Australia
75. Betty Birskys, Antanas Birskys and others, The Baltic Peoples In Australia: Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians; Barry York, The Maltese In Australia
76. Olavi Koivukangas and John Stanley Martin, The Scandinavians In Australia
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78. See also Jurgen Tampke and Colin Doxford, Willkommen: A History of the Germans in Australia (Sydney: New South Wales University Press, 1990)
79. Henry Chan, 'Becoming Chinese But Remaining Australasian: The Future of the Down Under Chinese Past' in The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, eds Henry Chan, Nora Chiang, and Ann Curthoys (Taipei and Canberra: National Taiwan University and Australian National University, 2001), 1-15
80. Brian Aboud, 'The Arab Diaspora: Immigration History and the Narratives of Presence, Australia, Canada, and the USA' in Arab-Australians Today: Censorship and Belonging, ed. Ghassan Hage (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002)
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83. David Christian was featured in an article, 'For Big History, the Past Begins at the Beginning' www.nytimes.com/2002/01/12. Some important texts include: William McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1963), which is auto-critiqued in 'The Rise of the West after Twenty-Five Years', Journal of World History 1 (1990): 1-22 and 'World History and the Rise and Fall of the West', Journal of World History 9 (1998): 215-36
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86. Marc Ferro, Colonization: A Global History (Quebec: World Heritage Press, 1997)
87. Blainey, A Short History of the World
88. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997)
89. Richard Grove, Ecology, Climate and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1997)
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91. See also Stephen J. Pyne, Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia (New York: Holt, 1991)
92. Thomas Dunlap, Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
93. Jane Carruthers' chapter in Inflows: The Channel Country, ed. Mandy Martin (Mandurama, NSW: Mandy Martin, 2001)