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Article: The Oxford Companion to Australian History.(Review)
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- December 1, 1998
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The Oxford Companion to Australian History edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre; Oxford University Press, 1998, $79.95.
Here are a few subjects about which readers might expect university historians to be likely to be a little over-enthusiastic: Aborigines, women, other minorities and their oppression; the environment and its rape; Labor ideals as against Coalition misanthropy; imperialism and business and their failings. On the past form of some, they can also reasonably be expected to overemphasise social, political and ideological reasons for things as against the physical and economic. The Cold War might be seen as unwarranted hysteria on ...