Only in Australia The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

mattered in Australia, and this can be seen in the fact that most Australian prime ministers of that period had a religious conn ...

Christianity has always been more sympathetic to the realm of the‘this worldly’than both other religions and other forms of Chri ...

only ever the fantasy of a small minority of the population. Certainly there was a small and active group of‘infidels’or secular ...

The establishment of universal primary education was a massive undertaking, comparable only to the building of the network of ra ...

To do so, Wilkins (1865, p. 7) develops both a theory of the state and a definition of religion. It is a very democratic theory ...

was expensive and inefficient, it was difficult to ensure quality control, and there was a need to reach children in every part ...

earnest and consistent Christian’(Hayward and Nutt 2014, p. 66). However, by the 1920s, one of this group, the Rev C. T. Forscut ...

participate in, a democratic society, but to accept the‘British ideology’was simply a bridge too far. This refusal was to have q ...

Australasian Convention Debates 1898, p. 1739), there may have been no federated Australia if it had not been for Protestant act ...

the heady elixir of Englishness and came to embody it in Australia as an Anglophile Scot. Menzies was very reassuring as an icon ...

generation, also the generation of Menzies and H. V. Evatt, Labor leader in the 1950s, was the last of that particular type of A ...

In recent years there has been a tendency to downgrade Manning Clark as a historian, especially on the right. Strangely enough, ...

Chavura, S. A. and Tregenza, I. 2015.‘A political history of the secular in Australia 1788 – 1945 ’in T. Stanley (ed.),Religion ...

Hodgson, M. 1993.Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kil ...

Wilkins, W. 1865.National Education: An Exposition of the National System of New South Wales. Sydney: Alexander W. Douglas. Will ...

5 Tocqueville, Hancock, and the Sense of History Henry Ergas If Alexis de Tocqueville’sDemocracy in Americacan claim a special p ...

Tocqueville, not merely because of the beauty of his prose and the bril- liance of his answers but also by the intricacy and sub ...

romanticism. Adding to the differences, while Tocqueville was intimately involved in the turbulent political life of post-revolu ...

Yet theirs was a generation that set itself great tasks.‘It is up to us’, wrote Balzac,‘children of the century and of liberty, ...

the ever higher levels of tariff protection—pursued by governments that were incapable of resisting‘opportunistic state action’a ...