An Historian's Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom
By Fay Anderson
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This biography considers Crawford as an historian and a public intellectual. It relates his experiences as a student at Sydney and Oxford, a struggling teacher during the Depression, as the head of the History School at the University of Melbourne, a diplomat in wartime Russia, and a Cold War victim and accuser. The study of Crawford's life provides insight into one man's experience in the midst of political turmoil and the limits of intellectual autonomy on Australian campuses, as well as the suspicion of liberal intellectuals in Australian public life, the repression of academic radicals and ASIO's attempts to stifle dissident voices.
Spanning his life (1906 -1991), Crawford's political and intellectual journey suggests the changing nature of Australian progressive liberalism and the precarious state of academic freedom.
Fay Anderson
I was born and educated in rural Victoria and lived most of my working life in and around Melbourne with my husband, John. We have now retired and live near Bairnsdale in eastern Victoria. Following a lifetime of avid reading, I came to writing by accident – literally – as a painful back injury precluded many other activities. Writing, like many other crafts, requires a great deal of practice but finding creative exercises tiresome without the relief of a long term project, I envisaged an Australian saga, telling the social history of Victoria through the interlinking stories of three families over three generations. Eight years and many many hours later, I have built two mini tug boats, written an historical novel, two parts of the historical trilogy and am busily researching for the third and last.
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