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An Historian's Life - Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom (Paperback, Print on Demand ed.)
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An Historian's Life - Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom (Paperback, Print on Demand ed.)
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Max Crawford was one of Australia's pre-eminent historians. As both
a participant in and observer of many decisive episodes of the era;
Europe in the midst of the Depression, America and Russia at the
height of World War II, postwar reconstruction and the Cold War in
Australia, Crawford was regarded as a radical, and outspoken
defender of intellectual autonomy. This biography considers
Crawford as an historian and a public intellectual. It relates his
experiences as a student at Sydney and Oxford, a struggling teacher
during the Depression, as the head of the History School at the
University of Melbourne, a diplomat in wartime Russia, and a Cold
War victim and accuser. The study of Crawford's life provides
insight into one man's experience in the midst of political turmoil
and the limits of intellectual autonomy on Australian campuses, as
well as the suspicion of liberal intellectuals in Australian public
life, the repression of academic radicals and ASIO's attempts to
stifle dissident voices. Spanning his life (1906 -1991), Crawford's
political and intellectual journey suggests the changing nature of
Australian progressive liberalism and the precarious state of
academic freedom.
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