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Inga Clendinnen : Selected Writings.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Collingwood : Black Inc., 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781743821473
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inga ClendinnenDDC classification:
  • 823.914
LOC classification:
  • CT2808.A33 I543 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: An internationally celebrated historian and highly original thinker, Inga Clendinnen compelled readers to re-examine accepted histories from new angles.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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