Bøker av Stuart Macintyre

In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia.

Drawing on the activities of the Social Science Research Council and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, this book explores the fortunes of the social sciences over the past six decades. It investigates the work of social scientists: who they were, what they did and how they did it.

Takes a look at the career of Geoffrey Blainey. As a historian, he is a maverick - respected for his originality and prodigious productivity, but sometimes dismissed as a blinkered populist. He has steered Australian history into the nation's conversation.