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Alan Atkinson Writes about Two of the Best-known and Consequential Figures of Early Colonial Australia
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Alan Atkinson Writes about Two of the Best-known and Consequential Figures of Early Colonial Australia
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'John Macarthur has been a polarising figure in Australian history since HV Evatt’s rehabilitation of his adversary, William Bligh first appeared in 1937. Evatt cast Macarthur as a defender of landed wealth; brilliant but without ‘scruple or ‘pity’ (1944, Rum Rebellion, 197). MH Ellis countered this revisionism in his sympathetic 1955 biography of Macarthur. John’s longstanding place as nation-builder was reinforced with Gordon Andrews’ 1966 design of the new colourful two-dollar note featuring a handsome Macarthur and an equally impressive merino ram; a brilliantly distilled history lesson for Australians for 20 years. Decades later he was a ‘colonial bully’.' (Introduction)
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Alan Atkinson Writes about Two of the Best-known and Consequential Figures of Early Colonial Australia
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- Elizabeth and John : The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm 2022 single work biography
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