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dc.contributor.authorMunro, Doug
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-19T16:22:56Z
dc.date.available2021-11-19T16:22:56Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20211119_9781760464776_5
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51552
dc.description.abstractIn 1993, Manning Clark came under severe (posthumous) attack in the pages of Quadrant by none other than Peter Ryan, who had published five of the six volumes of Clark's epic A History of Australia. In applying what he called "an overdue axe to a tall poppy", Ryan lambasted the History as “an imposition on Australian credulity” and declared its author a fraud, both as a historian and a person. This unprecedented public assault by a publisher on his best-selling author was a sensation at the time and remains lodged in the public memory. In History Wars, Doug Munro forensically examines the right and wrongs of Ryan’s allegations, concluding that Clark was more sinned against than sinning and that Ryan repeatedly misrepresented the situation. More than just telling a story, Munro places the Ryan-Clark controversy within the context of Australia’s History Wars. This book is an illuminating saga of that ongoing contest.’ — James Curran, University of Sydney ‘The Ryan-Clark controversy … speaks to the place of Manning Clark in Australia’s national imagination. Had Ryan taken his axe to another historian, it’s unlikely that we would be still talking about it 30 years later. But Clark was the author and keeper of Australia’s national story, however imperfect his scholarship and however blinkered that story. Few, if any, historians in the Anglo-American world have occupied the space that Clark occupied by dint of will, force of personality, and felicity of pen.’ — Donald Wright, University of New Brunswick
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999en_US
dc.subject.otherHistory Wars
dc.subject.otherCulture Wars
dc.subject.otherAcademic controversies
dc.subject.otherManning Clark
dc.subject.otherAustralian history
dc.titleHistory Wars
dc.title.alternativeThe Peter Ryan – Manning Clark Controversy
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/HW.2021
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781760464776
oapen.imprintANU Press
oapen.pages230
oapen.place.publicationCanberra


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