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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Contesting Australian History : Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake
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'One of Australia's leading scholars and a highly distinguished professor of history, Marilyn Lake forged a career that spanned several decades across a number of universities. Her books have significantly advanced our understandings, not only of Australian social, cultural and political history but also of the interdependence of that history with those of Britain, the US and the Asia-Pacific. 
'Lake's intellectual endeavours have encompassed many subjects over her illustrious career. She has made significant contribution to several fields including the impact of war and the history of Anzac, the history of feminism and women's history, gender, post-colonialism, race relations and racial identities, transnationalism and internationalism, human rights, biography, labour history, progressivist social reform, and settler colonialism. 
'The chapters in this book span the breadth of Lake's scholarly influence on the directions historical research is taking today, and are based on papers by overseas colleagues and Australian scholars abroad, which were presented at a Festschrift held at the University of Melbourne over two days in December 2016. 
'Lake has made an outstanding contribution to the history discipline, to the Australian academy, and to the community in promoting Australian history nationally and internationally. This volume is a tribute to her work and a recognition of her enduring influence and leadership in the profession.'  (Publication summary)
 

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    • Clayton, Murrumbeena - Oakleigh - Springvale area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Monash University Publishing , 2019 .
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      Extent: 286p.
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      • Published: 1st February 2019
      ISBN: 9781925835069

Works about this Work

[Review] Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake Melanie Oppenheimer , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 51 no. 3 2020; (p. 354-355)

— Review of Contesting Australian History : Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake 2019 anthology essay

'To be invited to review this edited collection was a daunting proposition and it has taken me over twelve months to sit down and complete the task. I did have valid work reasons for my tardiness but I should have done it much sooner for I found the task highly enjoyable, very easy, and illuminating on a number of levels. This is an important collection of essays from some of Australia's leading historians and early career researchers, brought together in honour of one of Australia's most influential, living historians, Marilyn Lake. I learnt so much reading this book, not only about Marilyn herself and her illustrious career but also about the finer details of the evolution of the history profession in Australia from the late 1970s.' (Introduction)

Sign. Us. Up. Christina Twomey , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June - July no. 412 2019; (p. 54)
[Review] Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake Melanie Oppenheimer , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 51 no. 3 2020; (p. 354-355)

— Review of Contesting Australian History : Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake 2019 anthology essay

'To be invited to review this edited collection was a daunting proposition and it has taken me over twelve months to sit down and complete the task. I did have valid work reasons for my tardiness but I should have done it much sooner for I found the task highly enjoyable, very easy, and illuminating on a number of levels. This is an important collection of essays from some of Australia's leading historians and early career researchers, brought together in honour of one of Australia's most influential, living historians, Marilyn Lake. I learnt so much reading this book, not only about Marilyn herself and her illustrious career but also about the finer details of the evolution of the history profession in Australia from the late 1970s.' (Introduction)

Sign. Us. Up. Christina Twomey , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June - July no. 412 2019; (p. 54)
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