Drew Cottle Drew Cottle i(A13103 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Russel Ward and the Making of the Australian Legend Drew Cottle , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: AQ : Australian Quarterly , May-June vol. 81 no. 3 2009; (p. 39-40)
1 A Bowyang Historian in the Cold War Antipodes : Russel Ward and the Making of the Australian Legend Drew Cottle , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Colonial History , vol. 10 no. 2 2008; (p. 171-186)

'Russel Ward's "The Australian Legend" appeared in 1958 amidst a deepening Cold War in Australia and abroad. This article seeks not to analyse in depth the text itself, but rather by exploring its political and intellectual context and Ward's own personal biography to consider why Ward was inspired to write such a book at this particular juncture. His study reflected a desire to understand something of the history of Australia beyond its status as a possession of imperial Britain. Ward, however, was not alone in this period in attempting to realise this objective, and the publication of his book was part of a broader post-Second World War movement toward the research, writing and teaching of a specifically Australian history, a cultural project in which other radical-nationalist intellectuals such as Ian Turner, Geoffrey Serle, and Robin Gollan played a prominent part. This article explores the moment when, out of a combination of personal, political, cultural and intellectual impulses, a text emerged that would have a formative influence on much subsequent debate about Australian history, culture and identity. Indeed, the book's standing in the fifty years since first publication can obscure the particular life-experience and set of political and cultural circumstances that inspired it.'

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1 [Review] Keeper of the Faith : A Biography of Jim Cairns Drew Cottle , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics and History , September vol. 50 no. 3 2004; (p. 445-446)

— Review of Keeper of the Faith : A Biography of Jim Cairns Paul Strangio , 2002 single work biography
1 The Brisbane Line in Australian Literature : Aspects of a Reality? Drew Cottle , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , April no. 20 1988; (p. 7-10)
1 Dymphna Cusack, a Farewell, 1902-1981 Drew Cottle , 1981 single work obituary (for Dymphna Cusack )
— Appears in: Independent Australian , vol. 4 no. 3 1981; (p. 2,5)
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