Intro; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; STUART MACINTYRE; INTRODUCTION; 1. ALAN ATKINSON; Do good historians have feelings?; 2. JOY DAMOUSI; The emotions of history; 3. GREG DENING; Living with and in deep time; 4. GRAEME DAVISON; A historian in the museum:The ethics of public history; 5. RHYS ISAAC; Inclusive histories; 6. BEVERLEY KINGSTON; A plea from the peripheries for modesty; 7. JOHN HIRST; Changing my mind; 8. MARILYN LAKE; On history and politics; 9. PENNY RUSSELL; Almost believing: The ethics of historical imagination; 10. FIONA PAISLEY
Discoveries made in the archives11. GELNDA SLUGA; Whose history?; 12. DAVID CHRISTIAN; History and global identity; 13. IAIN MCCALMAN; Flirting with fiction; INDEX
Summary
Arguments about the meaning of our national story underpin current debates about everything from work to war. Macintyre and twelve other Australian historians put history and the history profession under the microscope
