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Universities

	Making and Breaking Universities Memoirs of academic life in Australia and Britain 1939-2004 by Bruce Williams Bruce Williams became vice-chancellor of the University of Sydney in 1967, a time that coincided with the rise of student radicalism and protests against the Vietnam War. His tenure was punctuated by student demonstrations and occupations of university offices, including his own. Read More Buy now $49.95

	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 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

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