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   The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past » Read Now

   by Keith Windschuttle. 372 pgs.

   Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

   According to Keith Windschuttle, history today is in the clutches of literary and social theorists who have little respect for or training in the discipline. He believes that they deny the existence of truth and substitute radically chic theorising for real knowledge about the past. The result is...

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   According to Keith Windschuttle, history today is in the clutches of literary and social theorists who have little respect for or training in the discipline. He believes that they deny the existence of truth and substitute radically chic theorising for real knowledge about the past. The result is revolutionary and unprecedented: contemporary historians are increasingly obscuring the facts on which truth about the past is built. Windschuttle offers a devastating exposé of these developments. This fascinating narrative leads us into a series of case histories that demonstrate how radical theory has attempted to replace the learning of traditional history with its own political agenda.

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   The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, in New Criterion » Read Now

   by Keith Windschuttle. 9 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library
   
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   Understanding History as a Rhetorical Strategy: Constructions of Truth and Objectivity in Debates over Windschuttle's Fabrication, in Journal of Australian Studies » Read Now

   by Damien W. Riggs. 15 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library
   
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   Myths and Non-Myths: Frontier 'Massacres' in Australian History-The Woppaburra of the Keppel Islands, in Journal of Australian Studies » Read Now

   by Michael Rowland. 19 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library
   
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   An Australian "Historikerstreit"?, in The Australian Journal of Politics and History » Read Now

   by Andrew G. Bonnell, Martin Crotty. 9 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library
   
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   The Cultural War on Western Civilization, in New Criterion » Read Now

   by Keith Windschuttle. 14 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
   
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   The Burdens of Empire, in New Criterion » Read Now

   by Keith Windschuttle. 12 pgs.

   Collections: Entire Library
   
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   Liberalism & Imperialism, in New Criterion » Read Now

   by Keith Windschuttle. 8 pgs.

   Collections: Entire Library
   
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   The Ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz, in New Criterion » Read Now

   by Keith Windschuttle. 8 pgs.

   Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
   
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    Rewriting the History of the British Empire, in New Criterion » Read Now

    by Keith Windschuttle. 10 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    
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    Edward Said's "Orientalism" Revisited, in New Criterion » Read Now

    by Keith Windschuttle. 9 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    
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    Steinbeck's Myth of the Okies, in New Criterion » Read Now

    by Keith Windschuttle. 9 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    
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    The Hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky, in New Criterion » Read Now

    by Keith Windschuttle. 11 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    
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    The Problem of Democratic History, in New Criterion » Read Now

    by Keith Windschuttle. 7 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library