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    The Case For Ordinary People In National History: Towards New Narratives Of Australia’s Past
    The Case For Ordinary People In National History: Towards New Narratives Of Australia’s Past
    The Case For Ordinary People In National History: Towards New Narratives Of Australia’s Past
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    The Case For Ordinary People In National History: Towards New Narratives Of Australia’s Past

    By Justin Cahill

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    The settlement of Australia and New Zealand were among the most ambitions experiments in social engineering ever attempted. But the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who made it happen are often absent from the standard histories.

    This is my case for including ordinary people in national history. It describes an emerging genre of history known as the ‘new history from below’, which focuses on individual experiences to give agency to those left out of the history they helped to make. This approach to national history, I believe, will provide us with a more accurate account of our past and help resolve the corrosive impact of the ‘History Wars’.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJustin Cahill
    Release dateJan 21, 2015
    ISBN9781310155284
    The Case For Ordinary People In National History: Towards New Narratives Of Australia’s Past
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    Justin Cahill

    Welcome to my Smashwords profile.I am a New Zealand-born writer, based in Sydney. My main interests are nature and history.My thesis was on the negotiations between the British and Chinese governments over the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. It was used as a source in Dr John Wong’s Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, the standard work on that conflict.I wrote a column on the natural history of the Wolli Creek Valley for the Earlwood News (sadly, now defunct) between 1992 and 1998.My short biography of the leading Australian ornithologist, Alfred North (1855-1917), was published in 1998.I write regular reviews on books about history for my blog,’ Justin Cahill Reviews’ and Booktopia. I’m also a regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald's 'Heckler' column.My current projects include completing the first history of European settlement in Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people and a study of the extinction of Sydney’s native birds.After much thought, I decided to make my work available on Smashwords. Australia and New Zealand both have reasonably healthy print publishing industries. But, like it or not, the future lies with digital publishing.So I’m grateful to Mark Coker for having the vision to establish Smashwords and for the opportunity to distribute my work on it.

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