Inga Clendinnen : Selected Writings.
Boyce, James.
Inga Clendinnen : Selected Writings. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (296 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note from the Editor -- Introduction -- Encounters in Australia -- 1. Incident on a Beach -- 2. Spearing the Governor -- 3. Barangaroo -- 4. A Sinister Dance -- 5. Reading Mr Robinson -- 6. Inside the Contact Zone -- 7. Postcard from Townsville -- Mesoamerican Explorations -- 8. Tenochtitlan: The Public Image -- 9. Defeat -- 10. 'Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty': Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico -- 11. Crisis in the Yucatán -- 12. Landscape and World View: The Survival of Yucatec Maya Culture under Spanish Conquest -- Facing Gorgon -- 13. Beginnings -- 14. Adolf Eichmann -- 15. The Auschwitz SS -- 16. Representing the Holocaust: The Case for History -- 17. Building Treblinka -- On History and Writing -- 18. Agamemnon's Kiss -- 19. Mr Howard Wants a Structured Narrative -- 20. History and National Unity -- 21. Understanding the Heathen at Home: E.P. Thompson and His School -- 22. Backstage at the Republic of Letters -- On Life -- 23. At the Beach -- 24. In a Tiger Landscape -- 25. St Elsewhere -- 26. Liver Transplant No. 108 -- 27. Breaking the Mirror: From the Aztec Spring Festival to Organ Transplantation -- 28. Epilogue -- Notes -- Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
An internationally celebrated historian and highly original thinker, Inga Clendinnen compelled readers to re-examine accepted histories from new angles.
9781743821473
Authors, Australian-Biography.
Electronic books.
CT2808.A33 I543 2021
823.914
Inga Clendinnen : Selected Writings. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (296 pages)
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note from the Editor -- Introduction -- Encounters in Australia -- 1. Incident on a Beach -- 2. Spearing the Governor -- 3. Barangaroo -- 4. A Sinister Dance -- 5. Reading Mr Robinson -- 6. Inside the Contact Zone -- 7. Postcard from Townsville -- Mesoamerican Explorations -- 8. Tenochtitlan: The Public Image -- 9. Defeat -- 10. 'Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty': Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico -- 11. Crisis in the Yucatán -- 12. Landscape and World View: The Survival of Yucatec Maya Culture under Spanish Conquest -- Facing Gorgon -- 13. Beginnings -- 14. Adolf Eichmann -- 15. The Auschwitz SS -- 16. Representing the Holocaust: The Case for History -- 17. Building Treblinka -- On History and Writing -- 18. Agamemnon's Kiss -- 19. Mr Howard Wants a Structured Narrative -- 20. History and National Unity -- 21. Understanding the Heathen at Home: E.P. Thompson and His School -- 22. Backstage at the Republic of Letters -- On Life -- 23. At the Beach -- 24. In a Tiger Landscape -- 25. St Elsewhere -- 26. Liver Transplant No. 108 -- 27. Breaking the Mirror: From the Aztec Spring Festival to Organ Transplantation -- 28. Epilogue -- Notes -- Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
An internationally celebrated historian and highly original thinker, Inga Clendinnen compelled readers to re-examine accepted histories from new angles.
9781743821473
Authors, Australian-Biography.
Electronic books.
CT2808.A33 I543 2021
823.914