Contesting Australian History Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake

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. 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.

Joy Damousi is Professor of History and ARC Laureate Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Judith Smart, adjunct professor at RMIT University, is deputy chair of the History Council of Victoria.