Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Feminism
Well I was thinking if I wanted to keep it local, I could look at early feminism movement in Australia in regards to the stolen generation! :D I may need to narrow this down a lot but I think it may be cool!!!
Friday, January 7, 2011
AHHH! HELP ME!
I'm not too sure if I want to look at Windshuttle anymore!!! I did find it interesting but at the moment it is boring me and I don't really want to keep doing it!!!
I'm trying to think of new ideas but my minds drawing a blank!
I'm not too sure if I will concentrate on Australian history! hmmmm I was thinking I could look at Malta during WW11, cause I can get first hand evidence from my grandparents.
Or I could research something to do with Israel and/or the Gaza strip.
As you can see my mind has gone a little crazy!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!
I'm trying to think of new ideas but my minds drawing a blank!
I'm not too sure if I will concentrate on Australian history! hmmmm I was thinking I could look at Malta during WW11, cause I can get first hand evidence from my grandparents.
Or I could research something to do with Israel and/or the Gaza strip.
As you can see my mind has gone a little crazy!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Windshuttle!
I have been reading The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, volume one, Van Diemen's 1803-1847 Land by Kieth Windshuttle!
I have been finding him very irritating and a horrible historian (I don't know if this is because I disagree with what he is saying). He also hasn't provided much source material (so far) to support what he is saying, rather he says, Aboriginal sources have told me this..., and he uses 'government records supported by complete sets of almost all contemporary newspapers, plus diaries, letters and submissions from local settlers...there is good evidence about the intentions of the colonial authorities, the attitudes of the settlers and the motives of the Aborigines'
Windshuttle, as an historian fails to recognise the perspective and therefore bias of his sources. Majority of his sources come from white male settlers in power, who would make themselves appear to be just and right.
In my research I have come across many new historians - Manning Clark, Geoffrey Blainey, Paul Husluck and Marilyn Lake.
I am not too sure what my focus question is, but I might concentrate on the myth of Truganini, or I could do the exclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from the ANZAC legend (I don't know if Windshuttle writes much on this but I read about it and found interesting)
I have been finding him very irritating and a horrible historian (I don't know if this is because I disagree with what he is saying). He also hasn't provided much source material (so far) to support what he is saying, rather he says, Aboriginal sources have told me this..., and he uses 'government records supported by complete sets of almost all contemporary newspapers, plus diaries, letters and submissions from local settlers...there is good evidence about the intentions of the colonial authorities, the attitudes of the settlers and the motives of the Aborigines'
Windshuttle, as an historian fails to recognise the perspective and therefore bias of his sources. Majority of his sources come from white male settlers in power, who would make themselves appear to be just and right.
In my research I have come across many new historians - Manning Clark, Geoffrey Blainey, Paul Husluck and Marilyn Lake.
I am not too sure what my focus question is, but I might concentrate on the myth of Truganini, or I could do the exclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders from the ANZAC legend (I don't know if Windshuttle writes much on this but I read about it and found interesting)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
I am not too sure what to write about yet because I don't have that much information,but I have put a book on reserve to get out from Penrith library!!!!!!!!
Anyways Keith Windshuttle appears to have a lot to say about the treatment of Aboriginal women by their husbands and I know I have read about this somewhere else but I am not to sure who it was by! but it was very interesting and I wouldn't mind concentrating on it or should I concentrate on his whole works????
Anyways Keith Windshuttle appears to have a lot to say about the treatment of Aboriginal women by their husbands and I know I have read about this somewhere else but I am not to sure who it was by! but it was very interesting and I wouldn't mind concentrating on it or should I concentrate on his whole works????
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