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Review of Wright, Claire E. F. Australian economic history: transformations of an interdisciplinary field. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022. XVII+1–214, 9 tabs. ISBN : 9781760465124. by Andrew J. Seltzer is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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The history of the discipline of Australian economic history has heretofore been told in bits and pieces. The discipline's journal the Australian Economic History Review has over the years published articles and held symposia on the state of the discipline and its likely future success (or otherwise). These pieces have generally been reflective and relatively narrowly focussed. In this monograph, Claire Wright provides a thoroughly researched and broad history of the discipline, beginning with the publication of Coghlan's 'Labour and Industry in Australia' in 1918 through to the present day. The coverage is both episodic, with chapters corresponding to five discrete periods, and thematic, with the over-riding themes being the interdisciplinary nature of economic history and the discipline's movements across disciplinary boundaries depending on external circumstances. Over 200-plus pages we encounter a variety of scholars, from pioneers working outside of disciplinary boundaries without benefit of discipline-specific institutional infrastructure, to academics based in small free-standing departments lorded over by allpowerful God-professors, to a loosely related group of scholars sc
Who reads Review of Wright, Claire E. F. Australian economic history: transformations of an interdisciplinary field. Canberra: ANU Press, 2022. XVII+1–214, 9 tabs. ISBN : 9781760465124.?
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- Author
- Andrew J. Seltzer
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences