Family History and Transnational Historical Consciousness
Many western nations seem to be living a paradox of historical consciousness, as John Tosh describes it: “a society which is immersed in the past yet detached from its history”. While historical interest is booming at a community level, there’s a powerful
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Anna Clark, Anne Rees and Alecia Simmonds
Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History
Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History
Anna Clark • Anne Rees Alecia Simmonds Editors
Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History
Editors Anna Clark University of Technology Sydney Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Anne Rees La Trobe University Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Alecia Simmonds Faculty of Law University of Technology Sydney Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Acknowledgements
This collection is the result of numerous collaborations and contributions. First, many thanks to the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) for providing the generous Workshop Grant that funded a two-day event to explore national and transnational approaches to Australian historiography. This grant made it possible to begin our conversation and explore various questions about the exceptional, parochial, local, national, interconnected and international qualities of Australian history and historical practice. Special acknowledgement must also go to Marilyn Lake and Stuart Macintyre for their support in conceptualizing and contributing to the initial workshop, and to the University of Technology Sydney, for hosting and providing administrative support to run it. While a number
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