The Historical Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Jun., 2002), pp. 381-409.
In the above reading Taksa challenges the employment of social value from ideas of class conflict, in this reading Palmoswski demonstrates the challenge to social value from the other side of the political spectrum. In Australia there has been a very close association between liberalism and localism, and, hence, local history has been a common meeting place for liberals. Palmoswski’s context, however, is the late nineteenth-century Germany and England. Nevertheless, many of the conclusions Palmoswski makes about liberals and local government, civic associations, and local primary education are evident in Queensland history of the same era and beyond. The reader is invited to ponder what Palmoswski states as the liberal’s ‘ultimate failure’ and its implications for local history today.
In the above reading Taksa challenges the employment of social value from ideas of class conflict, in this reading Palmoswski demonstrates the challenge to social value from the other side of the political spectrum. In Australia there has been a very close association between liberalism and localism, and, hence, local history has been a common meeting place for liberals. Palmoswski’s context, however, is the late nineteenth-century Germany and England. Nevertheless, many of the conclusions Palmoswski makes about liberals and local government, civic associations, and local primary education are evident in Queensland history of the same era and beyond. The reader is invited to ponder what Palmoswski states as the liberal’s ‘ultimate failure’ and its implications for local history today.
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