Foreword - Traffic 10

Just over a decade or so ago, almost everywhere you looked, history as a discipline appeared to be in a bad way. In Australia, Keith Windschuttle, at that time a relatively obscure media lecturer, published his readable but intemperate volume, The Killing of History (1994), in which he lamented the death of history at the hands of cultural studies...

...History in several of its varieties is represented here: no primitive neo-conservative crudities that abhor nuance and ambiguity; no over-reliance on postmodernist puns that suggest a lack of awareness of Christopher Norris’s demolition of Derrida; no half-understood poststructuralist mutterings that show ignorance of Andrew Scull’s recent demolition of Foucault’s scholarship: just good, incisive scholarship―and interesting stories.

Tony Taylor, Monash University