List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Navigating the River of History
Peter Farrugia
Section 1: Wither History? Professional Historians, Specialization and Popularization
The Way We Were? History as Infotainment in the age of History Television
Robert Wright
Teaching History: The Future of the Past
Leo Groarke
Section 2: "Sharper than Any Two-Edged Sword:" History, Colonialism and Land
The Memory of Property: The Challenge of Using the Past to Enlighten the Lawyers of the Future
John McLaren
Reading the Past: The Dispossession of the Por and the Aborigines in Colonial New South Wales
Nancy E. Wright
Understanding Property in Australian History
A.R. Buck
Section 3: Past, Present and Future Tense: How Do We Own the Past?
Historical Fictions: The Invention of Historical Events for Political Purposes
John S. Hill
Being Present, Owning the Past, and Growing the Future: Temporality, Revelation, and the Therapeutic Culture
Jeffrey Scott Brown
Teravessao: African Diasporic Migratory Subjectivity and the Making of History
Carol B. Duncan
Section 4: Future History: Technological Development and Historical Change
Canada?s Lost Tradition of Technological Criticism
James Gerrie
Linking the Past to the Future
M. Carleton Simpson
Predictions of Global Catastrophe: Just Another Chicken Little?
Stephen F. Haller
Index