John La Nauze
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John Andrew La Nauze | |
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| Born | 9 June 1911 Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Ernest Scott Prize |
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| Alma mater | University of Western Australia University of Oxford |
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| Institutions | Australian National University University of Melbourne University of Sydney University of Adelaide Harvard University |
| Main interests | Constitutional history, economic history |
| Notable works | The Making of the Australian Constitution (1972) |
John Andrew La Nauze (9 June 1911 – 20 August 1990) was an Australian historian from Western Australia.
He was born in the Goldfields town of
Rhodes Scholar for 1931) at Balliol College, Oxford before joining the Economics Departments at Adelaide
(from 1935) and Sydney (1940-49).
In 1950 La Nauze became Foundation Professor of Economic History in the
Harvard
in 1978. In the Melbourne History Department he introduced courses in Later British History – which he believed essential to an understanding of Australian History — and fostered research in both fields.
La Nauze said that the Indigenous people of Australia were of interest as specimens of prehistory but had made no contribution to modern Australia:
- “Unlike the West or South American Indians, unlike the Africans, the Australian aborigines could not even be exploited and enslaved. They could only be exterminated or driven further into the interior, or given, in charity, rations, cotton dresses, and religion. From them the Europeans could take nothing but the land they lived in.”[1]
Publications
- Political Economy in Australia (1949)
- Alfred Deakin (1962)
- The Hopetoun Blunder (1957)
- Federated Australia. Selections From Letters to the Morning Post 1900-1910. Deakin, Alfred. 1968 (Edited with introduction by)
- The Making of the Australian Constitution (1972)
- Walter Murdoch (1977)
References
- Notable Historians. University of Melbourne
- La Nauze, John (1911–1990). Obituaries Australia
- Edward Duyker & Pauline McGregor Currien, 'La Nauze, Charles Andrew (1882-1915)’, Dictionnaire de Biographie Mauricienne, no. 58, décembre 2006, pp. 2032–5.
- Australian Dictionary of Biography
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- ^ Laurena Allam: ‘Denying history is simply lying’: how the University of Melbourne honoured racists, thieves and body snatchers The Guardian, 28 May 2024.