"Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in rural South Australian settler descendants' historical consciousness as a starting point, Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to in…
"Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in rural South Australian settler descendants' historical consciousness as a starting point, Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to in…
Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants' historical consciousness as a starting point, 'Memory, Place and Settler-Aboriginal History' combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investi…
Content: Foreword: Imagination and Fact : A Lover's Quarrel / Frank Ankersmit -- The Quarrel Begins? -- Romancing the Past : Presence and Intangibilities of History -- Reality of Representation, Reality behind Representation : History and Memory -- Whose Mandir? Whose Masjid? Th…
Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the 'non-historian' as an 'able' interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current …
Forfatteren, der er professor i amerikansk historie, trækker paralleller mellem Den amerikanske Uafhængighedskrig (1775-1783) og nutidige politiske organisationers, bl.a. Tea Party-bevægelsens, forståelse af og kamp for den amerikanske historie
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the …
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the …