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Let’s Not Forget Albion

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September 2002, no. 244

The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia by John Gascoigne

CUP, $69.95 hb, 246 pp

Let’s Not Forget Albion

by
September 2002, no. 244

In the late 1950s, Honours students at Melbourne University could take Geoffrey Serle’s Australian History course only after completing John La Nauze’s full-year subject on Hanoverian and Victorian Britain (aka England). Those who questioned this restriction were informed that, since Australia was a small, derivative society, understanding its history required some knowledge of the culture, ideas and institutions exported here from Britain. While we may have discounted this rationalisation, with all the withering cynicism of late adolescence, at the time it hardly seemed worth making a fuss about.

The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia

The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia

by John Gascoigne

CUP, $69.95 hb, 246 pp

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