Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 69 (Paperback, 69th edition)

In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing passionate debates and fresh recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history wars, and that truth-telling about the past will be liberating and healing. This is a superb account of a nation's moment of truth. "The time for pitting white against black, shame against pride, and one people's history against another's, has had its day. After nearly fifty years of deeply divisive debates over the country's foundation and its legacy for Indigenous Australians, Australia stands at a crossroads - we either make the commonwealth stronger and more complete through an honest reckoning with the past, or we unmake the nation by clinging to triumphant narratives in which the violence inherent in the nation's foundation is trivialised." Mark McKenna, Moment of Truth

General

Imprint:	Quarterly Essay
Country of origin:	Australia
Release date:	March 2018
Authors:	Mark McKenna
Dimensions:	233 x 167 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	144
Edition:	69th edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-76064-050-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Humanities > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General Books > History > Australasian & Pacific history > General
LSN:	1-76064-050-6
Barcode:	9781760640507

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