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History · 2022 · en

Australian Economic History: Transformations of an Interdisciplinary Field

by Claire E. F. Wright

About this book

Claire E. F. Wright traces the development of economic history as a field of research and teaching in Australia. Her account follows scholars, departments and intellectual networks to explain how a subject situated between history and economics gained an institutional home.

The narrative moves from early writings and interwar developments through expansion, disciplinary tensions, departmental closures and later renewal. Interviews and institutional evidence connect changes in scholarship with the organisation of universities. This complete 2022 history includes its supporting data, departmental information, oral-history interview list and index.