Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake edited by Joy Damousi and Judith Smart

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Partial date due slip on the half-title page, now covered with a blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Pen mark on right foredge. Body text and binding are still very good.

The chapters in this book span the breadth of Lake's scholarly influence on the directions historical research is taking today, and are based on papers by overseas colleagues and Australian scholars abroad, which were presented at a Festschrift held at the University of Melbourne over two days in December 2016.

One of Australia's leading scholars and a highly distinguished professor of history, Marilyn Lake forged a career spanning several decades at several universities. Her books have significantly advanced our understanding, not only of Australian social, cultural and political history but also of the interdependence of that history with those of Britain, the US and the Asia-Pacific.

Lake's intellectual endeavours have encompassed many subjects over her illustrious career. She has made significant contributions to several fields, including the impact of war and the history of Anzac; the history of feminism and women's history; gender; post-colonialism; race relations and racial identities; transnationalism and internationalism; human rights; biography; labour history; progressivist social reform; and settler colonialism. (publisher blurb)