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zohal99's review
4.0
An excellent read for any history buff!
Basically, this text is about how Australia's history has been defined by 'The History Wars' where the view of our country's history continually shifts from one of "Australia has always been great" to "Australia's history is full of mourning". It was fascinating learning about the extent Australian historians went to in order to preserve an orthodox view of our history and then seeing what happened when the orthodox view was challenged. In my opinion, there should be a balance between the two extreme views because negatives of one's history should be stepping stones for future progress and positives should be motivation to continue moving a nation forward.
Learning about Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey where the most interesting parts of this text, as well as the commentary on the nature of history. Of course, John Howard and Paul Keating were featured prominently as well.
This was also very easy to read and was structured in a digestible manner. This is also a relevant read due to the political climate today.
Basically, this text is about how Australia's history has been defined by 'The History Wars' where the view of our country's history continually shifts from one of "Australia has always been great" to "Australia's history is full of mourning". It was fascinating learning about the extent Australian historians went to in order to preserve an orthodox view of our history and then seeing what happened when the orthodox view was challenged. In my opinion, there should be a balance between the two extreme views because negatives of one's history should be stepping stones for future progress and positives should be motivation to continue moving a nation forward.
Learning about Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey where the most interesting parts of this text, as well as the commentary on the nature of history. Of course, John Howard and Paul Keating were featured prominently as well.
This was also very easy to read and was structured in a digestible manner. This is also a relevant read due to the political climate today.
zoey1999's review
4.0
An excellent read for any history buff!
Basically, this text is about how Australia's history has been defined by 'The History Wars' where the view of our country's history continually shifts from one of "Australia has always been great" to "Australia's history is full of mourning". It was fascinating learning about the extent Australian historians went to in order to preserve an orthodox view of our history and then seeing what happened when the orthodox view was challenged. In my opinion, there should be a balance between the two extreme views because negatives of one's history should be stepping stones for future progress and positives should be motivation to continue moving a nation forward.
Learning about Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey where the most interesting parts of this text, as well as the commentary on the nature of history. Of course, John Howard and Paul Keating were featured prominently as well.
This was also very easy to read and was structured in a digestible manner. This is also a relevant read due to the political climate today.
Basically, this text is about how Australia's history has been defined by 'The History Wars' where the view of our country's history continually shifts from one of "Australia has always been great" to "Australia's history is full of mourning". It was fascinating learning about the extent Australian historians went to in order to preserve an orthodox view of our history and then seeing what happened when the orthodox view was challenged. In my opinion, there should be a balance between the two extreme views because negatives of one's history should be stepping stones for future progress and positives should be motivation to continue moving a nation forward.
Learning about Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey where the most interesting parts of this text, as well as the commentary on the nature of history. Of course, John Howard and Paul Keating were featured prominently as well.
This was also very easy to read and was structured in a digestible manner. This is also a relevant read due to the political climate today.
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