By John Hirst
In Sense and Nonsense in Australian History, John Hirst overturns widely used conceptions and deepens our experience of Australia's improvement from convict society to exact democracy.
‘One of the nation's such a lot self sustaining and unique historians’ —Geoffrey Blainey
‘John Hirst is the gadfly of Australian historical past, stinging and provocative’ —Stuart Macintyre
‘Essential studying in the event you are looking to consider, not to mention write and educate approximately, Australian background’ —Robert Murray, Weekend Australian
‘Sense & Nonsense in Australian History is an exciting number of essays which merits to be learn, re-read and debated through Australians drawn to nationwide identity.’ —Lyndon Megarrity, Overland
‘A robust controversialist … a super historian’ —Australian ebook Review
‘One of Australia’s best historians’ —Ross Fitzgerald, Sydney Morning Herald
‘Hirst’s superb discriminations and ancient digging is helping us comprehend why Australia is without doubt one of the oldest and such a lot sturdy democracies on this planet’ —Age
‘Punchy, discovered, witty’ —Canberra Times
‘A stimulating and interesting contribution to present debates over Australian heritage’ —Bulletin
John Hirst used to be a member of the background division at l. a. Trobe college from 1968 to 2007. He has written many books on Australian historical past, together with Convict Society and Its Enemies, The unusual delivery of Colonial Democracy, The Sentimental state, experience and Nonsense in Australian History and The Shortest historical past of Europe.
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