Humphrey McQueen

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Humphrey McQueen
Born (1942-06-26) 26 June 1942 (age 81)
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
AwardsLiterature Board, Australia Council (1975, 1979–1980, 1998)
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Academic background
Alma mater University of Queensland (B.A (Hons.))
Influences Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Manning Clark, Georg Lukacs
YearTitlePublisher
1970
A New Britannia: An Argument Concerning the Social Origins of Australian Radicalism, 1971 ISBN   0-14-021314-7; 2nd edition 1976, 1978, 1980 ISBN   0-14-021904-8; Revised edition 1986 ISBN   0-14-010126-8; 4th edition 2004 ISBN   0-7022-3439-7. Penguin
1974
Aborigines, Race and Racism, Penguin, 1974, 1976 ISBN   0-14-080774-8 Penguin
1977
Australia's Media Monopolies, Widescope, 1977, 1978,1981 ISBN   0-86932-017-3 Widescope
1978
Social Sketches of Australia: 1888-1975 Penguin, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1986 ISBN   0-14-004435-3 Penguin
1979
The Black Swan of Trespass: The Emergence of Modernist Painting in Australia to 1944, APCOL, 1979 ISBN   0-909188-12-2 APCOL
1983
Gone Tomorrow: Australia into the 1980s, Angus and Roberson, 1983 ISBN   0-207-14610-1 Angus and Roberson
1987
Windows onto Worlds, Report of the Committee to Review Australian Studies in Tertiary Education, Co-authored with Kay Daniels and Bruce Bennett. AGPS, 1987 ISBN   0-642-11866-3 AGPS
1988
Suburbs of the Sacred, Transforming Australian Beliefs and Values, Penguin, 1988, 269pp. ISBN   0-14-010457-7 Penguin
1989
Gallipoli to Petrov: Arguing with Australian History, Allen & Unwin,1989 ISBN   0-86861-199-9 (hardback) ISBN   0-86861-207-3 (paperback) Allen & Unwin
1991
Social Sketches of Australia: 1888-1988, Penguin, 1991 ISBN   0-14-012232-X Penguin
1992
Japan to the Rescue, Australian Security Around the Indonesian Archipelago during the American Century, Heinemann, 1992 ISBN   0-85561-402-1 Heinemann
1992
Tokyo World, An Australian Diary, Heinemann, 1992 ISBN   0-85561-412-9 Heinemann
1996
Tom Roberts, Macmillan, 1996 ISBN   0-7329-0835-3 Macmillan Publishers
1997
Suspect History: Manning Clark and the Future of Australian History, Wakefield, 1997 ISBN   1-86254-410-7 Wakefield
1998
Temper Democratic: How Exceptional is Australia?, Wakefield 1998 ISBN   1-86254-466-2 Wakefield
2001
The Essence of Capitalism, The Origins of our Future, Sceptre, 2001 ISBN   0-7336-0940-6; United Kingdom edition, Profile, London, 2001 ISBN   1-86197-098-6; North American edition, Black Rose, Montreal, 2003 ISBN   1-55164-220-4 Black Rose Books
2004
Social Sketches of Australia: 1888 to 2001, University of Queensland Press, 2004, ISBN   0-7022-3440-0 University of Queensland Press
2009
Framework of Flesh: Builders' Labourers Battle for Health and Safety, Ginninderra Press, 2009, ISBN   978-1-74027-545-3 Ginninderra Press
2010
Men of Flowers, with Peter Lyssiotis and Wayne Stock, Masterthief, 2010, ISBN [46] Fryer Folios
2011
We Built This Country: Builders' Labourers and Their Unions, 1787 to the Future, Ginninderra Press, 2011 ISBN   978-1-74027-697-9 Ginninderra Press

McQueen contributed a chapter entitled "Born free: wage-slaves and chattel-slaves" to Foundational Fictions in South Australian History (2018). [47]

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