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Author

Keith Windschuttle

Keith Windschuttle is an author and publisher who is a frequent contributor to The New Criterion and Quadrant. He is author of The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past, which is now in its fourth edition from Encounter Books, and five other books on contemporary social issues. His book The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One, Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847, will be published by Macleay Press, Sydney, in November. He is publisher of Macleay Press, Sydney. He is a graduate in history from the University of Sydney and in politics from Macquarie University. He is a former academic who taught history, social policy and media studies the University of New South Wales and other Australian universities. His principal research interests are in historiography, especially of Australian and American history, and in the theories of history produced in the last two hundred years.

Articles

William Wilberforce: the great emancipator (Features) , June 2008, 17
On William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague.

Revisiting "Catalonia" again (Letters) , April 2007, 95
A letter from Keith Windschuttle.

The English-speaking century (Features) , February 2007, 4
On Andrew Roberts' History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900.

The nation & the intellectual Left (Features) , January 2007, 15
On the changing relationship between the Left and the nation state.

The corruption of history (Features) , January 2006, 29
Is the West destroying its own history?

Mao & the Maoists (Features) , October 2005, 4
A new look at the legacy of one of the twentieth century's most brutal killers.

Crazy in Cambodia (Letters) , September 2005, 96
A reply to David Chandler.

The journalism of warfare (Features) , June 2005, 12
On the history and function of war journalism, from Thucydides to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Which enlightenment? (Books) , March 2005, 64
A review of The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments, by Gertrude Himmelfarb.

A disgraceful career (Books) , September 2004, 61
A review of The Anti-Chomsky Reader, edited by Peter Collier & David Horowitz.

The burdens of empire (Features) , September 2003, 4
The first in a series titled “Lengthened shadows.”

The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky (Features) , May 2003, 4

Rabbit-proof fence: (Features) , March 2003, 12
Considering Phillip Noyce’s current film.

The ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz (Features) , October 2002, 5
On our most famous anthropologist and the failures of the discipline.

Steinbeck's myth of the Okies (Features) , June 2002, 24

Why the West wins wars (Books) , April 2002, 67
A review of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, by Victor Davis Hanson.

The cultural war on Western civilization (Features) , January 2002, 4
The fifth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”

The fabrication of Aboriginal history (Features) , September 2001, 41
On revisionism in Australia, and the difficulties of challenging orthodoxy.

Rewriting the history of the British Empire (Features) , May 2000, 5

Was World War I necessary? (Features) , December 1999, 9
Upon the publication of The First World War by John Keegan & The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson

Puritans & destiny (Books) , October 1999, 60
Review of The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America

Edward Said's "Orientalism" revisited (Features) , January 1999, 30
On the writings of the literary critic & academic celebrity

Liberalism & imperialism (Features) , December 1998, 4
Being the fourth in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism

The problem of democratic history (Features) , June 1998, 22
On History on Trial: Culture Wars & the Teaching of History by Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn & the debate over history curricula

Our debts to English history (Features) , January 1998, 22
On Hope & Glory: Britain 1900–1990 by Peter Clarke & A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603–1714 by Mark Kishlansky, two of the eight volumes in the Penguin History of Britain

Edward Gibbon & the Enlightenment (Features) , June 1997, 20
On The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

The real stuff of history (Features) , March 1997, 4
The seventh in a series on The future of the European past