Humphrey McQueen

Humphrey McQueen (born 26 June 1942) is an Australian author, historian, and cultural commentator. He has written many books on a wide range of subjects covering history, the media, politics and the visual arts. He also broadcasts on radio and is regularly asked to speak at public lectures and conferences.

McQueen was born in Brisbane and educated at Marist College Ashgrove and the University of Queensland. He moved to Canberra where he taught at the Australian National University. Between 1972 and 1974 he developed Australia's first full-year university course on 20th-century Australian history.

Bibliography

• A New Britannia: An Argument Concerning the Social Origins of Australian Radicalism, Penguin, 1970, 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.
• Aborigines, Race and Racism, Penguin, 1974, 1976 ISBN 0-14-080774-8
• Australia's Media Monopolies, Widescope, 1977, 1978,1981 ISBN 0-86932-017-3
• Social Sketches of Australia: 1888-1975 Penguin, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1986 ISBN 0-14-004435-3
• The Black Swan of Trespass: The Emergence of Modernist Painting in Australia to 1944, APCOL, 1979 ISBN 909 188 12 2
• Gone Tomorrow: Australia into the 1980s, Angus and Roberson, 1983 ISBN 0-207-14610-1
• Gallipoli to Petrov: Arguing with Australian History, Allen & Unwin,1989 ISBN 0-86861-199-9 (hardback) ISBN 0-86861-207-3 (paperback)
• Suburbs of the Sacred, Transforming Australian Beliefs and Values, Penguin, 1988, 269pp. ISBN 0-14-010457-7
• 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
• Social Sketches of Australia: 1888-1988, Penguin, 1991 ISBN 0-14-012232-X
• Japan to the Rescue, Australian Security Around the Indonesian Archipelago during the American Century, Heinemann, 1992 ISBN 0-85561-402-1
• Tokyo World, An Australian Diary, Heinemann, 1992 ISBN 0-85561-412-9
• Temper Democratic: How Exceptional is Australia?, Wakefield 1998 ISBN 1-86254-466-2
• Tom Roberts, Macmillan, 1996 ISBN 0-7329-0835-3
• Suspect History: Manning Clark and the Future of Australian History, Wakefield, 1997 ISBN 1-86254-410-7
• 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
• Social Sketches of Australia: 1888 to 2001, University of Queensland Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7022-3440-0
• Framework of Flesh: Builders’ Labourers Battle for Health and Safety, Ginninderra Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-74027-545-3
• We Built This Country: Builders’ Labourers and Their Unions, 1787 to the Future, Ginninderra Press, 2011 ISBN 978-1-74027-697-9