The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays (Academic Monographs)

Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 7 Introduction: Allan Martin, Historian......Page 9 Abbreviations......Page 16 1 Introduction by John Hirst Edited by J. R. Nethercote......Page 3 1 The ‘Whig’ View of Australian History: A Document......Page 17 2 The Changing Perspective on Australian History......Page 44 3 Australia and the Hartz ‘Fragment’ Thesis......Page 69 4 Henry Parkes: In Search of the ‘Actual Man Underneath’......Page 90 5 A New Middle Class? A Note on the 1950s......Page 117 6 Menzies the Man......Page 137 7. Menzies and Appeasement: Understanding Provenance in Reading Historical Documents......Page 155 8. An Australian Prime Minister in Ireland: R. G. Menzies, 1941......Page 171 10. R. G. Menzies and the Suez Crisis......Page 192 11 Speech is of Time......Page 255 Bibliography of A. W. Martin’s Writings......Page 276 Index......Page 279 Brings together a major essay on Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Federation, and several significant studies of particular aspects of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving prime minister's long career. This work also includes an analyses of the development of historical research in Australia.