The work of history : writing for Stuart Macintyre / edited by Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski.
Publication details: Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2022.Description: xv, 392 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780522878608
- 994 23/eng/20220630
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Signed by the editors.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Stuart Macintyre was an eminent figure within the world of Australian history scholarship for 45 years. This collection of essays and responses revisits and extends this extraordinary life of achievement and engagement. Leading scholars write here of Macintyre's contribution to understanding radicalism and communism, postwar reconstruction, education and civics, universities, liberalism, historiography and the history wars. They also tell us about collegiality and friendship. The practice of history writing and telling has long been central to the narrative of the nation in Australia. The Work of History connects us to that past. It raises the question of what comes next, and re-values Macintyre's contribution, serving both as a snapshot of the state of the historian's art, and an introduction to those who come more recently to this highly contested field.