The Oxford Companion to Australian History.(Review)

Quadrant | December 1, 1998| | Copyright

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 ...

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