Charles Bean : man, myth, legacy / edited by Peter Stanley.

Collection type	Library
Author	Stanley, Peter, 1956-, editor.; Stanley, Peter, 1956-, editor.;
Call Number	070.4333 C475
Document type	Monograph
Year	2017. 2017. 017
Pagination	xv, 249 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm.
Publisher	UNSW Press, UNSW Press,
Note	Contains biographical information. Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index. Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticised for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was also a public servant, institutional leader, author, activist, thinker, doer, philosopher, and polemicist. In Charles Bean, Man, myth, legacy, Australia's top military historians including Peter Stanley, Peter Burness, Michael McKern an, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Edwards, David Horner, Peter Rees and Craig Stockings analyse the man, the myth, and his long-reaching legacy.
Place made	Sydney, N.S.W. : Sydney NSW

Abstract

Pt.1. Charles Bean: Life and work -- Finding the man? / Stephen Ellis -- Bean on the Western Front / Peter Burness -- Bean at Tuggeranong / Jennifer Horsfield -- Reading Bean / Michael McKernan -- Bean and the making of the National Archives of Australia / Anne-Marie Condé -- The distributed Bean archive / Michael Piggott -- Rethinking Bean''s philosophy of history / Martin Ball -- Bean and official history / Jeffrey Grey -- Bean''s straight line / Peter Rees -- Pt. 2 The Australian official history traditi on -- An adequate memorial / Peter Stanley -- Conflicts and controversies over Southeast Asia / Peter Edwards -- The Malayan emergency / Peter Dennis -- The Vietnam conflict / Chris Clark -- Peacekeeping, humanitarian and post-Cold War operation / David H orner -- Doing history in the digital age / Garth Pratten -- A continuing tradition... but a whole new ballgame / Craig Stockings.