Реферат: Dumping down Australian history

Содержание

• Dumbing down Australian history and its teaching
• (essay)
• The clandestine tradition in Australian historiography
• Russel Ward's Concise History of Australia
• Abolishing the Catholics
• Macintyre's selection of sources
• Macintyre's historical method
• No ballads for Macintyre
• Fundamental flaws in Macintyre's account
• Macintyre abolishes Langism
• Macintyre and Vietnam
• A very strange book
• Why bother about Macintyre's historical revisionism?
• Stuart Macintyre, Miriam Dixson, and the Australian "national imaginary"
• Questioning Macintyre
• Human beings have names. Australians like names
• Which Australian history books are really out of print?
• Stuart Macintyre's narrow, academic range of source books
• Macintyre's geographical bias towards Melbourne and towards current fashions in theory and cultural history
• Stuart Macintyre's intellectual odyssey
• Macintyre's political encounter with Stalinism
• Stuart Macintyre's grey armband history: "cultural history", very little human sympathy, and a general absence of dialectics
• "Cultural studies" meets and mates with conservative academic history, to produce a kind of mule: grey armband history
• How grey armband history works
• Macintyre and racism
• Macintyre and the struggle for women's rights
• Macintyre isn't too keen on explorers
• Robert Murray as a dialectician
• Macintyre's self-fulfilling prophecy about young people and Australian history