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Publications for Mark Mckenna 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Publications for Mark McKenna 2021 2015 McKenna, M. (2021). Return to Uluru. Carlton, Vic: Black Inc. McKenna, M. (2015). Elective Affinities: Manning Clark, 2019 Patrick White and Sidney Nolan. In Ian Henderson, Anouk Lang (Eds.), Patrick White Beyond the Grave: New Critical McKenna, M. (2019). In search of Emily. In Joy Damousi and Perspectives, (pp. 81-100). London: Anthem Press. Judith Smart (Eds.), Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake, (pp. 107-120). Melbourne: Monash 2014 University Publishing. McKenna, M. (2014). Keeping in Step: The Anzac McKenna, M. (2019). The National Picture: The Art of 'Resurgence' and 'Military Heritage' in Australia and New Tasmania's Black War. Australian Historical Studies, 50(1), Zealand. In Shanti Sumartojo, Ben Wellings (Eds.), Nation, 117-123. <a Memory and Great War Commemoration: Mobilizing the Past href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2019.1551710">[Mo in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, (pp. 151-167). Bern: re Information]</a> Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0604-0/21">[More 2018 Information]</a> McKenna, M. (2018). "An audience with the Queen": McKenna, M. (2014). Tokenism or belated recognition? Indigenous Australians Welcome to Country and the emergence of Indigenous protocol and the Crown, 1854-2017. Royal Studies Journal, 5(1), 157- in Australia, 1991-2014. Journal of Australian Studies, 38(4), 167. <a 476-489. <a href="https://www.rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/10.21039/rsj.147 href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2014.952765">[More /">[More Information]</a> Information]</a> McKenna, M. (2018). Moment of Truth: History and 2013 Australia's Future, QE 69. Melbourne: Black Inc. McKenna, M. (2013). Glorious days: Australia 1913. 2017 Jones, B., McKenna, M. (2013). Project Republic: Plans and McKenna, M. (2017). 'A gigantic confession of life': Arguments for a New Australia. Melbourne: Black Inc. Autobiography, 'National Awakening' and the Invention of McKenna, M. (2013). Six pack: Volume one of A History of Manning Clark. In Doug Munro and John G. Reid (Eds.), Australia is published. In Tanya Dalziell, Paul Genoni (Eds.), Clio's Lives: Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians, Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature 1935-2012, (pp. (pp. 81-102). Canberra: ANU Press. <a 240-246). Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing. href="https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives- series-biography/clio%E2%80%99s-lives">[More McKenna, M. (2013). The history anxiety. In Alison Bashford, Information]</a> Stuart Macintyre (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Australia: Volume 2: The Commonwealth of Australia, (pp. 561-580). McKenna, M. (2017). King Queen and Country: Will Anzac New York, USA: Cambridge University Press. <a thwart Republicanism? In David Stephens and Alison href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781107445758.055">[Mo Broinowski (Eds.), The Honest History Book, (pp. 256-270). re Information]</a> Kensington: New South Books. McKenna, M. (2013). Who Stopped the Music? In Robert McKenna, M. (2017). The Character Business: 'Biographical Manne (Eds.), The Best Australian Essays 2013, (pp. 153-163). Political Writing in Australia'. In Stuart Macintyre, Lenore Collingwood, Victoria: Black Inc. Layman and Jenny Gregory (Eds.), A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton, (pp. 48-70). Melbourne: Monash University Publishing. 2012 McKenna, M. (2012). Transplanted to Savage Shores: 2016 Indigenous Australians and British birthright in the mid nineteenth-century Australian colonies. Journal of Colonialism McKenna, M. (2016). 'National Awakening', Autobiography, and Colonial History, 13(1), 1-11. <a and the Invention of Manning Clark. Life Writing, 13(2), 207- href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cch.2012.0009">[More 220. <a Information]</a> href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2016.1162263">[Mor e Information]</a> 2011 McKenna, M. (2016). From the Edge: Australia's Lost Coakley, J., McKenna, M. (2011). 'Whatever happened to Histories. Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press. Republicanism?': Changing Images of the Monarchy in Ireland McKenna, M. (2016). Waiting to die? The British monarchy in and Australia. In Katie Holmes and Stuart Ward (Eds.), Australia, New Zealand and Canada, 1991-2016. In Robert Exhuming Passions: The Pressure of the Past in Ireland and Aldrich and Cindy McCreery (Eds.), Crowns and Colonies: Australia, (pp. 271-294). Dublin: Irish Academic Press. European Monarchies and Overseas Empires, (pp. 309-324). McKenna, M. (2011). An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Manchester: Manchester University Press. <a Clark. Carlton: The Miegunyah Press. href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784993153.003 .0016">[More Information]</a> 2010 McKenna, M. (2010). Anzac Day: How Did It Become 2006 Australia's National Day? In Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (Eds.), Whats Wrong with Anzac The Militarisation of McKenna, M. (2006). Writing the Past. In Drusilla Modjeska Australian History, (pp. 110-134). Sydney: University of New (Eds.), The Best Australian Essays 2006, (pp. 96-110). South Wales (UNSW) Press. Melbourne VIC: Black Inc. McKenna, M. (2010). Crown. In Melissa Harper, Richard 2005 White (Eds.), Symbols of Australia, (pp. 33-37). Sydney: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press. McKenna, M. (2005). A symbolic life. Griffith Review, 9(Spring 2005), 151-159. 2009 McKenna, M. (2005). Voyage Around My Constitution. In McKenna, M. (2009). 'The Language of Ordinary Men': Henry Sybil Nolan (Eds.), The Dismissal, (pp. 148-154). Melbourne Reynolds, History and the Pursuit of Justice. In Bain Attwood University Press: Melbourne University Press. and Tom Griffiths (Eds.), Frontier, race, nation: Henry Reynolds and Australian history, (pp. 71-91). Melbourne, 2004 Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing. McKenna, M. (2004). Ashes of Republicanism, Dust of Empire. McKenna, M. (2009). Australian History and the Australian Meanjin, 63(3), 175-186. 'National Inheritance'. Australian Cultural History, 27(1), 1-12. McKenna, M. (2004). The Poetics of Place: Land, Constitution <a and Republic. Dialogue (Academy of the Social Sciences in href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07288430902877841">[More Australia), 23(1), 27-33. Information]</a> McKenna, M. (2004). The republic, democracy and 2008 reconciliation. In Wayne Hudson & A. J. Brown (Eds.), Restructuring Australia: Regionalism, republicanism and McKenna, M. (2008). 'We think we're pretty good and we are': reform of the nation-state, (pp. 98-110). Sydney, Australia: Values and patriotism in John Howard's Australia. In Deborah Federation Press. Gare, David Ritter (Eds.), Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past since 1788, (pp. 592-600). Australia: McKenna, M. (2004). This Country: a Reconciled Republic?. Thomson (Learning Australia). Sydney., NSW: University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press. McKenna, M. (2008), Lecture: Notes From the Underground: Writing the biography of Manning Clark. 2003 McKenna, M. (2003). 'I wonder whether I belong': Manning McKenna, M. (2008). Monarchy: From Reverence to Clark and the politics of Australian history 1970-2000. Indifference. In Deryck M Schreuder and Stuart Ward (Eds.), Australian Historical Studies, 34(122), 364-383. <a Australias Empire, (pp. 261-287). New York, USA: Oxford href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314610308596260">[More University Press. Information]</a> McKenna, M. (2008). One More With Feeling: The Strange McKenna, M. (2003). A History for Our Time? The Idea of the History of Manning Clark. In Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal People in Australian Democracy. History Compass, 1(1), 1-15. (Eds.), Fact & Fiction: Readings in Australian Literature, (pp. 323-352). New Delhi: Authorspress. McKenna, M. (2003). A Preference for Forgetting: some reflections on publishing Looking for Blackfellas Point. McKenna, M. (2008). The Anzac Myth. In Tony Jones (Eds.), Aboriginal History, 27, 131-138. The Best Australian Political Writing 2008, (pp. 333-350). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. McKenna, M., Hudson, W. (2003). Australian Republicanism: a Reader. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press. McKenna, M. (2008). The Republic. In Robert Manne (Eds.), Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia, (pp. 15-27). McKenna, M. (2003). Poetics of place. Griffith Review, 2, 185- Melbourne: Black Inc. 194. 2007 McKenna, M. (2003). Why the war was wrong. In Raimond Gaita (Eds.), Why the war was wrong, (pp. 167-200). McKenna, M., Ward, S. (2007). 'It Was Really Moving, Mate': Melbourne: The Text Publishing Company. The Gallipoli Pilgrimage and Sentimental Nationalism in Australia. Australian Historical Studies, 38(129), 141-151. <a 2002 href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314610708601236">[More Information]</a> McKenna, M. (2002). Building a Closet of Prayer in the New World: the Story of the Australian Ballot. United Kingdom: McKenna, M. (2007). Being There. In Drusilla Modjeska Menzies Centre for Australian Studies. (Eds.), The Best Australian Essays 2007, (pp. 199-226). Melbourne Australia: Black Inc. McKenna, M. (2002). Looking for Blackfellas' Point : an Australian history of place. Sydney, NSW: University of New McKenna, M. (2007). Once More With Feeling: the personal South Wales (UNSW) Press. Voice of Manning Clark. In Stuart Macintyre, Sheila Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Against the grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics, (pp. 191- 222). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. McKenna, M. (2007). The Australian Republic: Still Captive after all these Years. In John Warhurst & Malcolm MacKerras (Eds.), Constitutional Politics: The Republic Referendum and the Future, (pp. 145-162). Australia: University of Queensland Press..
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