An Australian "historikerstreit"? Review article

Australian Journal of Politics and History

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 425-433

  Bonnell, Andrew G ^a   Crotty, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 8744237258     PISSN: 00049522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2004.00345.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. The principal texts of the "Historikerstreit" are collected in "Historikerstreit". Die Dokumentation der Kontroverse um die Einzigartigkeit der nationalsozialistischen Judenvernichtung (Munich, 1987). The "Historikerstreit" generated an enormous body of writing. The most useful treatments in English are Charles S. Maier, The Unmasterable Past. History, Holocaust and German National Identity (Cambridge MA and London, 1988); Richard J. Evans, In Hitler's Shadow. West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past (London, 1989).
2. The principal texts of the "Historikerstreit" are collected in "Historikerstreit". Die Dokumentation der Kontroverse um die Einzigartigkeit der nationalsozialistischen Judenvernichtung (Munich, 1987). The "Historikerstreit" generated an enormous body of writing. The most useful treatments in English are Charles S. Maier, The Unmasterable Past. History, Holocaust and German National Identity (Cambridge MA and London, 1988); Richard J. Evans, In Hitler's Shadow. West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past (London, 1989).
3. The principal texts of the "Historikerstreit" are collected in "Historikerstreit". Die Dokumentation der Kontroverse um die Einzigartigkeit der nationalsozialistischen Judenvernichtung (Munich, 1987). The "Historikerstreit" generated an enormous body of writing. The most useful treatments in English are Charles S. Maier, The Unmasterable Past. History, Holocaust and German National Identity (Cambridge MA and London, 1988); Richard J. Evans, In Hitler's Shadow. West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past (London, 1989).
4. Geistig can also be translated as "spiritual".
5. Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM (Milsons Point, N.S.W, 2002); Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, The History Wars (Melbourne, 2003), pp.1-2, 123-126.
6. Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM (Milsons Point, N.S.W, 2002); Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark, The History Wars (Melbourne, 2003), pp.1-2, 123-126.
7. Sean Brawley, "A Comfortable and Relaxed Past': John Howard and the 'Battle of History'", Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History, 27 April 1997, at http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/articles/brawley. htm.
8. See Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "objectivity" question and the American historical profession (Cambridge, 1988), pp.462-465, on the neo-conservative backlash among American historians. In 1983, for example, Gertrude Himmelfarb complained about radicals' alleged "trashing of the past".
9. See Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "objectivity" question and the American historical profession (Cambridge, 1988), pp.462-465, on the neo-conservative backlash among American historians. In 1983, for example, Gertrude Himmelfarb complained about radicals' alleged "trashing of the past".
10. Stuart MacIntyre and Anna Clark, The History Wars (Melbourne, 2003); the best, and most entertaining, account of this episode is Humphrey McQueen, Suspect History. Manning Clark and the Future of Australia's Past (Kent Town, SA, 1997).
11. Stuart MacIntyre and Anna Clark, The History Wars (Melbourne, 2003); the best, and most entertaining, account of this episode is Humphrey McQueen, Suspect History. Manning Clark and the Future of Australia's Past (Kent Town, SA, 1997).
12. Chris Mitchell cited dark's use of the word "bourgeoisie" as evidence that he was promoting a Communist agenda: quoted in David Marr, "Spying claims against Manning Clark 'disgusting'", Sydney Morning Herald, 26 August 1996.
13. MacIntyre and Clark, The History Wars, p. 157; Robert Manne, In Denial. The Stolen Generations and the Right (Quarterly Essay, no.1, 2001). On the history of the "stolen generations", see Anna Haebich, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Aboriginal Families 1800-2000 (Fremantle WA, 2000). A far more impressive work of history than Windschuttle's, this account of the human cost of policies of assimilation and forced removal has been resolutely ignored by most right-leaning commentators on Aboriginal history, despite winning awards and garnering positive scholarly reviews.
14. MacIntyre and Clark, The History Wars, p. 157; Robert Manne, In Denial. The Stolen Generations and the Right (Quarterly Essay, no.1, 2001). On the history of the "stolen generations", see Anna Haebich, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Aboriginal Families 1800-2000 (Fremantle WA, 2000). A far more impressive work of history than Windschuttle's, this account of the human cost of policies of assimilation and forced removal has been resolutely ignored by most right-leaning commentators on Aboriginal history, despite winning awards and garnering positive scholarly reviews.
15. MacIntyre and Clark, The History Wars, p. 157; Robert Manne, In Denial. The Stolen Generations and the Right (Quarterly Essay, no.1, 2001). On the history of the "stolen generations", see Anna Haebich, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Aboriginal Families 1800-2000 (Fremantle WA, 2000). A far more impressive work of history than Windschuttle's, this account of the human cost of policies of assimilation and forced removal has been resolutely ignored by most right-leaning commentators on Aboriginal history, despite winning awards and garnering positive scholarly reviews.
16. Geoffrey Blainey, "Undermining a bloody myth", The Australian, 14 April 2003, in an otherwise positive review, doubted whether "the original Tasmanians" were "as backward, mentally and culturally, as Windschuttle sometimes depicts them".
17. See Macintyre and Clark, History Wars, ch.10.
18. Bain Attwood and S.G. Foster, eds., Frontier Conflict. The Australian Experience (Canberra, 2003); for an important response to Windschuttle with reference to the case of frontier conflict in Queensland, see Raymond Evans and Bill Thorpe, "The Massacre of Aboriginal History". Overland 163 (Winter 2001), pp.21-39.
19. Bain Attwood and S.G. Foster, eds., Frontier Conflict. The Australian Experience (Canberra, 2003); for an important response to Windschuttle with reference to the case of frontier conflict in Queensland, see Raymond Evans and Bill Thorpe, "The Massacre of Aboriginal History". Overland 163 (Winter 2001), pp.21-39.
20. Gregory Melleuish, letter to the editor, The Australian, 9 September 2003; Janet Albrechtsen, "Revenge of the nerds", The Australian, 24 September 2003.
21. Gregory Melleuish, letter to the editor, The Australian, 9 September 2003; Janet Albrechtsen, "Revenge of the nerds", The Australian, 24 September 2003.
22. A. Dirk Moses, "An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia", Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 2, 1 (2000), pp. 89-106; see the various contributions to Aboriginal History special issue on "Genocide?": Australian Aboriginal history in international perspective, Vol. 25 (2001). Evans and Thorpe ("The Massacre of Aboriginal History") suggest the term "indigenocide" to characterize the lethal nature and consequences of the process of colonization.
23. A. Dirk Moses, "An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia", Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 2, 1 (2000), pp. 89-106; see the various contributions to Aboriginal History special issue on "Genocide?": Australian Aboriginal history in international perspective, Vol. 25 (2001). Evans and Thorpe ("The Massacre of Aboriginal History") suggest the term "indigenocide" to characterize the lethal nature and consequences of the process of colonization.
24. A. Dirk Moses, "An antipodean genocide? The origins of the genocidal moment in the colonization of Australia", Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 2, 1 (2000), pp. 89-106; see the various contributions to Aboriginal History special issue on "Genocide?": Australian Aboriginal history in international perspective, Vol. 25 (2001). Evans and Thorpe ("The Massacre of Aboriginal History") suggest the term "indigenocide" to characterize the lethal nature and consequences of the process of colonization.
25. See the revealing profile of Howard's intellectual influences (including Quadrant and the US conservative journal The National Interest) by Nicolas Rothwell, "All the rage", The Weekend Australian, 22-23 July 2000.