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In The History Question, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the \objective record of achievement\ that the Prime Minister has called for? For Clendinnen, historians cannot be the midwives of national identity and also be true to their profession: history cannot do the work of myth. Clendinnen il...

In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there. Inga Clendinnen offers a fresh reading of the earliest written sources, the reports, letters, and journals of the first British settlers in Australia....

Clendinnen explores the Holocaust from both the victims' and the perpetrators' points of view, as they appear in histories, memoirs, films and poems.

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In January of 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be their new neighbours,

A study of Mayan conversion in sixteenth-century Yucatan.

Recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan before it fell to the Spaniards.

In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there. Inga Clendinnen offers a fresh reading of the earliest written sources, the reports, letters, and journals of the first British settlers in Australia....

A collection of pathbreaking essays on Aztec and Maya culture in the sixteenth century.

A collection of pathbreaking essays on Aztec and Maya culture in the sixteenth century.

A study of Mayan conversion in sixteenth-century Yucatan.

More than fifty years after their occurrence, the events of the Holocaust remain for some of their most dedicated students as morally and intellectually baffling, as unthinkable, as they were at their first rumouring. Reading the Holocaust challenges that bafflement and the demoralization that attends it. Searching, eloquent and elegantly written, Inga Clendinnens book is an uncompromising attempt to extract the comprehensible - the practical,...