Plenty of resilience, but little resistance in a new account of Australia's Great Depression
- Written by Marilyn Lake, Professorial Fellow in History, The University of Melbourne
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In her latest book, Australia’s Great Depression[1], Joan Beaumont offers a deeply conservative history animated by the neoliberal spirit of our age.
In many ways a sequel to Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War[2] (2014), Beaumont’s continuing national saga tells the story of a “resilient nation”, a people whose personal values of “stoicism, independence, self-reliance and personal responsibility” defined their response to the worst economic crisis of the 20th century.
Review: Australia’s Great Depression – Joan Beaumont (Allen & Unwin).