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By: Dening, Greg

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Paperback | 28 June 2024 | Edition Number 1

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326 Pages

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Published: 30th September 1996

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Master historian Greg Dening invites readers to reflect upon their own participation in the 'performance' of history.

'. . . history is my passion. Writing it, teaching it, reading it fills the days and years of my life. In all passions, there is pain and pleasure.' Greg Dening In this collection of writings-some new, some previously published-Greg Dening reflects on his experiences both as a historian and a participant in history. Performances brings together the personal and the scholarly, demonstrating how our lives are saturated with history, how we can only understand our present through our consciousness of the past and how in thinking about the past we mirror the time and place of our own living. Each of these essays can be enjoyed on its own, yet throughout them all run the common themes of the intricate relationships between past and present, the personal and the political, historical research and the imagination. Dening writes with elegance and candour, inviting readers to reflect upon their own participation in the 'performance' of history.

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Acknowledgements
Notes to the Reader
Prelude: Ethnograpy on My Mind
Making a Present out of the Past: History's Anthropology
A Poetric for Histories Sharks that Walk on the Land
The Face of Battle: Valparaiso, 1814 Presenting the Past: History's Theatre
The Theatricality of History Making and the Paradoxes of Acting Possessing
Tahiti Hollywood Makes History Inventing Others
Returning to the Past Its Own Present: History's Empowering
Force Songlines and Seaways Anzac Day School at War Postlude: Soliloquy in San Giacomo
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