History
This week on the ABR podcast we feature Shan Windscript’s review of Bombard the Headquarters! by Linda Jaivin. Though Windscript applauds Jaivin for condensing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of Communist China into a succinct and vivid account, Windscript argues this approach sacrifices historical nuance.
... (read more)Bombard the Headquarters!: The Cultural Revolution in China by Linda Jaivin
The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian relations in the nineteenth century by Barbara Emerson
Striking Ore: The rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara by Alexis Vassiley
The Southern Frontier: Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean world by Rohan Howitt
This week on the ABR Podcast, Kate Fullagar reviews Uprising: War in the colony of New South Wales, 1838-1844, by Stephen Gapps. Fullagar writes that Uprising is a ‘crucial contribution to our rethinking of Australian military history’. Kate Fullagar is Professor of History at Australian Catholic University, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and Vice President of the Australian Historical Association.
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