Introduction to 'Turning Points in Australian History'

Author(s)
Roberts, David
Crotty, Martin
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
In the nineteenth century, when the discipline of history was finding its feet, it was fashionable for learned men to stock their libraries with handsome volumes describing the most momentous and weighty episodes of the human past. Bearing titles such as 'Great Events', 'Epoch Marking Events', 'Events to be Remembered', 'A Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the Great Events of Our Past Century' and 'Narratives of the Most Remarkable Occurrences', these were lively vignettes of those colossal moments of "Heroism, Statesmanship, Genius, Oratory, Adventure and Philanthropy" considered eternally important and "of perpetual interest".
Citation
Turning Points in Australian History, p. 1-17
ISBN
1921410566
9781921410567
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Language
en
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Edition
1
Title
Introduction to 'Turning Points in Australian History'
Type of document
Book Chapter
Entity Type
Publication

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