Stuart Macintyre
Stuart Macintyre Officer of the Order of Australia (2011) Ernest Scott Prize (2016) | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne (BA) Monash University (MA) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Henry Pelling |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Melbourne |
| Notable students | Frank Bongiorno |
| Notable works | The History Wars (2003) |
| Notable ideas | Australian history Class and labour history |
Stuart Forbes Macintyre
Early life and education
The son of Forbes Macintyre and Alison Stevens Macintyre, Stuart Macintyre was born in Melbourne on 21 April 1947. His schooling took place at Scotch College, and later at the University of Melbourne where he was a resident of Ormond College. While an undergraduate he specialised in history, and obtained his bachelor's degree in 1968. He also held a Master of Arts degree from Monash University (1971) and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (1975), for which he was awarded the Blackwood Prize. In 1976 he married Martha Bruton [1], a social anthropologist.
While a postgraduate student at Monash in the early 1970s, Macintyre joined the Left Tendency faction of the
Academic career
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Macintyre had a long academic career both within Australia and internationally. From 1977 to 1978, Macintyre was a research fellow at St John's College at the University of Cambridge. He returned to Australia in 1979 as a lecturer at Murdoch University in Perth, and the following year returned to Melbourne, where he lectured at the University of Melbourne until 1981. For a brief subsequent period – 1982–83 – he was a research fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, and in 1984 he was promoted to senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne.[4]
Beginning in 1988, Macintyre served as a
From 1987 to 1996, Macintyre was a member of the council of the
Macintyre finished a second term as the dean of arts in mid-2006. For the 2007–08 academic year he held the
Publications
As an historian Macintyre was prolific. He published numerous books, including a
Perhaps his most widely known work is The History Wars (with Anna Clark), a study of the history wars, a public debate about the recent interpretation of various aspects of the history of Australia. The book was launched by former Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating, who took the opportunity to criticise conservative views of Australian history, and those who hold them (such as the then current Prime Minister John Howard), saying that they suffered from "a failure of imagination", and said that The History Wars "rolls out the canvas of this debate".[8]
Macintyre's critics, such as Gregory Melleuish (history lecturer at the University of Wollongong), responded to the book by declaring that Macintyre was a partisan history warrior himself, and that "its primary arguments are derived from the pro-Communist polemics of the Cold War".[9] Keith Windschuttle said that Macintyre attempted to "caricature the history debate" but failed to explain what he meant.[10] Windschuttle has also accused Macintyre of harbouring "a deep distaste" for Australia's British heritage and has criticised Macintyre's involvement in the academic attack against Geoffrey Blainey during the so-called "Blainey affair".[11]
In a foreword to The History Wars, former Chief Justice of Australia, Sir Anthony Mason, said that the book was "a fascinating study of the recent endeavours to rewrite or reinterpret the history of European settlement in Australia."[12]
Awards
Macintyre received many awards, including the
On 26 January 2011, Macintyre was named an
Bibliography
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- — (1980). A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain, 1917–1933. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-22621-X.
- — (1980). Little Moscows. Communism and working-class Militancy in Inter-war Britain publisher. Croom Helm. ISBN 0-7099-0083-X
- — (1985). Winners and Losers. the Pursuit of Social Justice in Australian History. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0-86861 470 X.
- — (1986). The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 4, 1901–1942: The Succeeding Age. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553518-9.
- — (1989). The Labour Experiment. McPhee Gribble. ISBN 0-86914-057-4.
- — (1991). A Colonial Liberalism: The lost world of three Victorian visionaries. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-86914-057-4.
- — (1994). A History for a Nation: Ernest Scott and the Making of Australian History. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84568-1.
- — (1999). The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from Origins to Illegality. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 0195547608.
- —; Clark, Anna (2003). The History Wars. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 0-522-85091-X.
- —; Fitzpatrick, Sheila (2007). Against the grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 9780522854237.
- — (2010). The Poor Relation. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 978-0-522-85775-7
- Waghorne, James; Macintyre, Stuart (2011). Liberty: A history of civil liberties in Australia. UNSW Press. ISBN 9780522869736.
- — (2015). Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s. NewSouth Publishing. ISBN 9781742231129.
- — (2016). A Concise History of Australia (4th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107562431.
- Brett, André; Croucher, Gwilym; Macintyre, Stuart (2016). Life After Dawkins: The University of Melbourne in the Unified National System of higher education. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 9780522869736.
- —; Croucher, Gwilym; Brett, André (2017). No End of a Lesson : Australia's unified national system of higher education. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 9780522871906.
- — (2022). The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9781760875183.
- Graeme Davison; John Hirst; Stuart Macintyre, eds. (2001). The Oxford Companion to Australian History. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019551503X.
References
- ^ Richard Nile (4 October 2006). "First cohort for thought". Australian Literary Review. Archived from the original on 30 November 2006.
- ^ Janet McCalman. "Vale Stuart Macintyre: a history warrior who worked for a better Australia". The Conversation. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ^ "Celebrated historians Babette Smith, Stuart Macintyre have died" by Caroline Overington, The Australian, 23 November 2021 (subscription required)
- ^ "Making the history books". The Age. 6 May 2006. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ Macintyre, Stuart (16 November 2005). "Research floored by full Nelson". The Age. Melbourne.
- ^ "ASSLH Federal Executive". Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ Tutton, Samantha (25 November 2021). "Vale Stuart Macintyre AO FASSA FAHA: 1947–2021". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ Keating, Paul (5 September 2003). "Keating's 'History Wars'". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ "Book Reviews". Policy – Centre for Independent Studies. Archived from the original on 24 March 2005. Retrieved 6 February 2006.
- ^ Jones, Tony (3 September 2003). "Authors in history debate". Lateline.
- ^ Windschuttle, Keith (8 October 2008). "Stuart Macintyre and the Blainey Affair". Quadrant. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ISBN 0-522-85091-X.
- ^ "History Awards". NSW Ministry for the Arts. Archived from the original on 28 January 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2006.
- ^ "2016 Ernest Scott Prize Winner Announced as Professor Stuart Macintyre – Prize $13,000". Articulation. Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
- ^ Hare, Julie (26 January 2011). "Australia Day honours list goes Melbourne's way". The Australian. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
Further reading
- Macintyre, Stuart (2003). "The History Wars". Evatt Foundation. Archived from the original on 19 August 2006. Retrieved 5 February 2006.
- "Professor Stuart Macintyre: Academic Profile". Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. Archived from the original (http) on 4 September 1999. Retrieved 4 January 2007.