There is a common belief that Australia acquired history only when
it grew up and threw off its colonial origins after the Second
World War. Yet earlier generations of Australians created their own
histories to express their sense of who they were and what they
might be. This book reveals that the quest for an Australian past
found its way into our universities and schools from the early
years of the Commonwealth. Ernest Scott was the most prolific
teacher and writer of history in inter-war Australia. A
self-taught, degreeless professor, he laid the foundations of a
historical profession in this country and wrote the textbook that
taught generations of schoolchildren the meaning of Australian
history. An Englishman and an imperialist active in public affairs,
he trained Australians to understand their colonial past as a guide
to nationhood. At the time when Australians debate their
nationhood, Asianisation and the republic, A History for a Nation
recalls a lost culture of urgent contemporary significance.
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