Humphrey McQueen
Humphrey McQueen | |
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| Born | 26 June 1942 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland (B.A (Hons.)) |
| Influences | Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Manning Clark, Georg Lukacs |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Australian National University University of Queensland University of Tokyo Literature Board of the Australia Council (1975, 1979–1980, 1998) |
| Main interests | Australian history, Marxism, capitalism, slavery |
| Notable works | A New Britannia (1970), Social Sketches of Australia (1978) |
| Influenced | Elizabeth Humphrys, Clinton Fernandes |
| Website | surplusvalue.org.au |
Humphrey Dennis McQueen (born 26 June 1942) is an Australian public intellectual, historian, activist, and former Associate Professor in Social and International Relations at the University of Tokyo. Over the course of his career he has written histories, biographies and cultural criticism. McQueen was the pivotal figure in the development of the Australian New Left. His most iconic work, A New Britannia, gained notoriety for challenging the dominant approach to Australian history developed by the Old Left. Although McQueen began his career as an academic at the Australian National University under Manning Clark, his career from the 1990s has been as an independent scholar.