Humphrey McQueen

Humphrey McQueen
Born (1942-06-26) 26 June 1942 (age 82)
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
AwardsLiterature Board, Australia Council (1975, 1979–1980, 1998)
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Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Queensland (B.A (Hons.))
InfluencesKarl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Manning Clark, Georg Lukacs
Academic work
InstitutionsAustralian National University
Main interestsAustralian history, capitalism, slavery
Notable worksA New Britannia (1970), Social Sketches of Australia (1978)
InfluencedElizabeth Humphrys
Websitehttps://www.surplusvalue.org.au/index.html

Humphrey Dennis McQueen (born 26 June 1942) is an Australian public intellectual. Over the course of his career he has written histories, biographies and cultural criticism. McQueen was the pivotal figure in the development of the Australian New Left.[2] His most iconic work, A New Britannia,[3] gained notoriety for challenging the dominant approach to Australian history developed by the Old Left.[4] He has written books on history, the media, politics and the visual arts.[5][6] Although McQueen began his career as an academic at the Australian National University under Manning Clark, most of his career has been as an independent scholar.

  1. ^ "abiography". Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  2. ^ Williams-Brooks, Llewellyn (2016). "Radical Theories of Capitalism in Australia", Honours Thesis, University of Sydney, viewed 20 April 2017,[1]
  3. ^ McQueen, H 1970/2004, A New Britannia, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, p.31
  4. ^ Bongiorno, F 2008, "Two Radical Legends: Russel Ward, Humphrey McQueen and the New Left Challenge in Australian Historiography", Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 201–222.
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  6. ^ Men of Flowers, with Peter Lyssiotis and Wayne Stock, Masterthief, 2010,