
A History For A Nation
Ernest Scott and the Making of Australian History
Stuart Macintyre(Author)
Melbourne University Press
Published on 31. May 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-522-84568-6 (ISBN)
Description
There is a common belief that Australia acquired history only when it grew up and threw off its colonial origins after the Second World War. Yet earlier generations of Australians created their own histories to express their sense of who they were and what they might be. This book reveals that the quest for an Australian past found its way into our universities and schools from the early years of the Commonwealth. Ernest Scott was the most prolific teacher and writer of history in inter-war Australia. A self-taught, degreeless professor, he laid the foundations of a historical profession in this country and wrote the textbook that taught generations of schoolchildren the meaning of Australian history. An Englishman and an imperialist active in public affairs, he trained Australians to understand their colonial past as a guide to nationhood. At the time when Australians debate their nationhood, Asianisation and the republic, A History for a Nation recalls a lost culture of urgent contemporary significance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Carlton
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-522-84568-6 (9780522845686)
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10/2016
Simon + Schuster LLC
€9.99
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Person
Stuart Macintyre is Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. His previous works include A Proletarian Science, Winners and Losers- The Pursuit of Social Justice in Australian history, volume 4 of the Oxford History of Australia and A Colonial Liberalism.