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While its leaders justify bombing campaigns exceeding the worst atrocities of World War 2 and manmade famine in the Gaza Strip, Israel is becoming a pariah state. Its worst enemy is not Hamas, but itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIlan Pappe paves a path out of the Jewish state, rooted in restorative justice and decolonisation, including the release of all Palestinian prisoners, the end of illegal settlements, and building bridges with the Arab world. 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He set out to help remedy the situation and ended up transforming Australian history in ways he could never have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Looking from the North, Reynolds again turns Australian history on its axis with an exploration of colonisation north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Reynolds tells the stories of the European, Chinese, Japanese and Pacific Islander people who were vital to the settlement of the north. Along with the experience of First Nations peoples, from employment on stations and as native police to the land rights and homelands movements, Reynolds shows how the colonisation of the north, officially beginning in 1861, was a very different venture to settlement in the south. He argues that it provides profoundly important lessons for the world we live in today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This book is another masterpiece by Henry Reynolds. It combines the personal with the professional historiography that trademarks his work. 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In doing so, the master storyteller changes the status of the people, power and perspectives that have shaped the nation's political trajectory. A radical revision of the past and a timely cartographic and conceptual blueprint for repositioning future relationships to law, sovereignty and country.'  Clare Wright\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'What we call history is a thing greatly influenced by perspective. In his extraordinary career, historian Henry Reynolds has done more than most to change the perspectives that have led to accepted accounts of post-colonial Australia that have ignored the true and often violent nature of colonial occupation and dispossession in this country. With this new book, Looking from the North, he flips the map to show just how much of the story of Australian colonialism and Indigenous post-colonial history is told from the vantage point of south eastern Australia. Looked at from north of the Tropic of Capricorn a new, revelatory and profoundly significant perspective emerges. That is the story of this remarkable book.'  VPLA judges' report\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This book is yet another of Reynolds' deeply rewarding studies.'  Raymond Evans, The Conversation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I can't recommend this book highly enough.'  Judith Brett, The Saturday Paper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'In Looking from the North, Reynolds returns to his point of departure. What began in 1965 as the researching, writing, and teaching of 'local history' gradually came to spur the rewriting of the nation's history.'  Mark McKenna, ABR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Looking from the North is hailed as an immediate classic.'  Glyn Davis, Inside Story\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The shift in perspective induced by this revelatory work of Australian history is nothing short of vertiginous.'  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