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	The Invention of Terra Nullius Historical and Legal Fictions on the Foundation of Australia by Michael Connor History books, school curricula and legal texts all treat terra nullius as the defining doctrine in the foundation of Australia and the dispossession of the Aborigines. The High Court's Mabo decision was supposed to have overturned it. Michael Connor reveals terra nullius to be a mythical notion. It was never a phrase used in Australia in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. It was only injected into Australian political and legal debate in the 1970s. Since then it has meant whatever its users want it to mean. The foundation of Australia was based on entirely different concepts and terminology. Read More Buy now $39.95

	The White Australia Policy Race and shame in the Australian history wars by Keith Windschuttle Many historians today argue that its immigration policy was once so shamefully racist that Australia was in danger of becoming an international pariah, like South Africa under apartheid. This book shows these claims are so exaggerated they lack all credibility. Australia is not, and never has been, the racist country its academic historians have condemned. Read More Buy now $34.95

	Washout The academic response to the fabrication of Aboriginal history by John Dawson The Fabrication of Aboriginal History by Keith Windschuttle fired a broadside whose aftershocks are still reverberating. Given the intellectual capital and political energy many academics had invested in the Aboriginal cause, it was expected they would close ranks and retaliate. In Robert Manne's anthology Whitewash , a score of the authors under siege mounted a counterattack. In Washout , John Dawson uses Whitewash as a telescopic sight into current academic codes of conduct. In a piercing inspection of the methods, standards and philosophic premises within Australia 's humanities faculties, Dawson finds they have adopted irrationalism as their standard and abandoned their patriotic oath to defend the truth. Read More Buy now $34.95

	The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847 by Keith Windschuttle This is the first volume in a series that re-appraises the now widely accepted story about conflict between colonists and Aborigines in Australian history. Beginning in Tasmania, and eventually covering the whole of the Australian mainland, the volumes find that the academic historians of the last thirty years have greatly exaggerated the degree of violence that occurred. In a close re-examination of the primary sources used by historians, Keith Windschuttle concludes that much of their case is poorly founded, other parts are seriously mistaken, and some of it is outright fabrication. Read More Buy now $49.95

	The Killing of History How a discipline is being murdered by literary critics and social theorists by Keith Windschuttle History has become an endangered species. Parisian academic fashions threaten to exterminate one of the most enduring disciplines of the Western intellectual tradition. The salons of theory claim the distinction between history and fiction can no longer be sustained. Out in the environment of historical practice, however, Keith Windschuttle reports a different story. He debates real historical issues—from the discovery of America to the fall of Communism—to expose the pretensions of the would-be usurpers. Read More Buy now $29.95

	Corrupting the Youth A history of philosophy in Australia by James Franklin CCorrupting the Youth follows a large cast of Australian thinkers, from admirable geniuses to dangerous fanatics, as they struggle with fundamental questions, argue, write and plot. Aboriginal philosophy, nineteenth century idealism, John Anderson's Sydney realism, Sixties hedonism, feminist and environmental philosophy and the ethics of Peter Singer and his opponents pass in review as philosophers, judges, Communists, priests, teachers, doctors and students promote their visions of the way the world is and how life should be lived. Read More Buy now $59.95

	Paradise of Quacks An alternative history of medicine in Australia 1788-2002 by Phillipa Martyr This is both a sparkling, witty book and a full-length scholarly history of medicine in Australia. It is a history of scientific medicine that looks at the field's disreputable origins in the convict colony and its struggle for respectability over the next 200 years. It is also a history of alternative medicine that covers the growth of popular non-scientific therapies. It is a clearly-written work that will appeal to those working in the fields of both professional medicine and alternative health therapies. It will also provide many fascinating insights for their patients. Read More Buy now $34.95

	Tribunes and Amazons Men and Women of Revolutionary France 1789-1871 by R. B. Rose Combining social history, the history of ideas and historical biography, Professor Rose examines the careers of many of the men and women who provided political leadership from the outbreak of revolution in 1789 to the fall of the Paris Commune in 1871. He tells the story of these 'tribunes' and 'amazons' within the context of the development of political movements ranging from utopian speculation and messianic communism, to functional democratic politics within a pluralistic society. Read More Buy Now $34.95

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