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A History for a Nation

A History for a Nation( )
Author: Macintyre, Stuart
ISBN:978-0-522-84568-6
Publication Date:Jul 1995
Publisher:Melbourne University Publishing
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book 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...
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Book Details
Pages:264
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Historical
History / Australia & New Zealand
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.382 x 8.346 x 0.78 Inches
Book Weight:0.66 Pounds
Author Biography
Macintyre, Stuart (Author)
Stuart Forbes Macintyre was born on April 21, 1947 in Melbourne, Australia. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Melbourne, his Master of Arts from Monash University and his PhD for the University of Cambridge. He is a historian and a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.

His awards include Premier of Victoria's Literary Award for Australian Studies (1986), Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1987), Redmond Barry Award (1997), The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award (1998)for his book The Reds, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1999), Premier of New South Wales' Australian History Prize (2004)for the History Wars (co-written with Anna Clark), Officer of the Order of Australia (2011), and the Ernest Scott Prize (2016) for his book Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s, and the Premier New South Wales' Australian History Prize (2016) for Australia's Boldest Experiment.

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