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Article: A.W. Martin, The 'Whig' View of Australian History, and Other Essays.(Book review)
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- Labour History - A Journal of Labour and Social History
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- May 1, 2009
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A.W. Martin, The 'Whig' View of Australian History, and Other Essays, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2007. pp. xvi + 271. $39.95 paper.
These days the Whig view of history is but a dim memory in the history profession. Some readers of this journal will remember it from the 1970s. At that time it was the banner raised by historians who challenged what they saw as the dominance of Australian history by labour history--or more precisely by an understanding that the forces of political and industrial labour were the crucial forces for progress in Australian politics and society. In political history the charge was led by Peter Loveday and Alan Martin's edited ...