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Nationalism, Britishness and Australian history: the Meaney thesis revisited Waters, Christopher 2013, Nationalism, Britishness and Australian history: the Meaney thesis revisited, History Australia, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 12-22. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Nationalism, Britishness and Australian history: the Meaney thesis revisited Author(s) Waters, Christopher Journal name History Australia Volume number 10 Issue number 3 Start page 12 End page 22 Total pages 11 Publisher Monash University Publishing Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Publication date 2013 ISSN 1833-4881 1449-0854 Keyword(s) Australian History nationalism imperialism Summary In 2001 Neville Meaney published a landmark article which questioned the place of nationalism in Australian historiography. He argued that up to the 1960s Britishness, not nationalism, was the hegemonic marker of identity for Australians, and warned that nationalist historians had fallen into the trap of writing their histories through nationalism’s own teleological imperative. This article revisits Meaney’s hegemonic claim for the role of Britishness in Australian history by arguing that he went too far. By leeching out nationalism as an ideology at play in Australian politics in the mid-twentieth century historians are in danger of taking Australian history out of its world historical context: the Age of Decolonisation. Language eng Field of Research 210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) Socio Economic Objective 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2013 Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30059026 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Humanities and Social Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published article Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 17 Dec 2013, 09:22:10 EST Tue, 17 Dec 2013, 09:26:58 EST Tue, 17 Dec 2013, 09:29:51 EST Wed, 18 Dec 2013, 10:27:47 EST Wed, 18 Dec 2013, 14:39:24 EST Thu, 19 Dec 2013, 14:54:38 EST Thu, 19 Dec 2013, 14:56:17 EST Sat, 21 Dec 2013, 20:01:29 EST Fri, 17 Jan 2014, 11:37:56 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 62 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 17 Dec 2013, 09:21:59 EST by Christopher Waters

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