The ‘little empire of Wybalenna’
Becoming colonial in Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12647201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Johnston (0000-0002-9675-8902, University of Tasmania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 81 |
| Pages | 17-31 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Australian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1444-3058 • E-ISSN: 1835-6419 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14443050409387935 |
| OpenAlex | W2042719655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
The colonial past is hot property in Australian public life at present. Debatesthroughout the 1990s about 'black armband' history versus 'white blindfold'history, about histories of land use and ownership, and about what constitutes'mainstream' Australian historical scholarship seem to have coalesced in thearguments surrounding Keith Windschuttle's publications. In this most recent setof history wars, some Australian historians seem to feel under siege.' Others, asNicolas Rothwell suggests, see this as a breath oflife for the discipline, reassertingthe centrality of history even as it calls into question the authority and reliabilityofhistorians." These debates draw such heat because they are ultimately about therelationship between the colonial past and what might be called the 'postcolonial'present. It is at once a debate about history as a discipline and a debate about howhistorical understandings affect our present: as Graeme Davison suggests, historyhas become 'a bone of national contention'PIfarguments about 'the past' are those we can
Ancient history · Archaeology · British Empire · Colonialism · Discipline · Empire · Historiography · Mainstream · Political science · Scholarship · Siege · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · Australian History and Society · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |