Books by Stuart Ward

Australia's Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern ...

While exhibiting an almost fanatical pride in the exploits of their sporting heroes, Australians have otherwise remained indifferent to the more formal trappings of their nationhood. This book offers insight into why Australians have come to exhibit their nationhood in these curi ...

Public disputes over memory and the uses of the past have become a customary feature of contemporary culture. Debates about wartime resistance, apologies for slavery and abuse, and the entrenchment of a national historical canon in schools have been sparked by recent anniversarie ...

This title argues that that the steady waning of British race patriotism in Australia did not occur because of assertive Australian cultural nationalism, rather it was a reaction to the UK's determination to carve out a new political and economic future as a member of the Europ ...