Martin Crotty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Crotty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Crotty |
| SIGNATURE | CROTTY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7153-278X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historians Respond to … the Yoorrook Justice Commission
Hugh, McLeod. Religion and the Rise of Sport in England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp. 304
Addressing the decline of academic history in Australia
Australian Historical Association conferences are usually a time of celebration -and with good reason.Most of us have just filed results after a semester of teaching culminating in a marking frenzy, and the opportunity for a change of scenery away from the daily grind comes as a relief.We switch our minds to intellectual exchange, and savour stimulating presentations from colleagues.We celebrate high achievers through the regular schedule of priz…
Changes in Australian and New Zealand University History Staffing Profiles, 2016 to 2022
This article considers developments in History staffing in Australian and New Zealand universities between 2016 and 2022. The COVID pandemic and the ongoing effects of the corporatised university have worn away at History student and staffing numbers, much exacerbated in Australia by the fee changes introduced by the Morrison government in 2020. There are positive developments, such as the near-disappearance of gender disadvantage for women and i…
Stuart Macintyre – A Note of Appreciation
What more do you want?’: Billy Hughes and Gilbert Dyett in late 1919
The dominant understandings of how the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia (RSSILA, or RSL) leadership was able to build such influence in Australian civil life after the First World War focus on a strategic accommodation between the state and the returned soldiery. Hughes’ Nationalist government granted significant concessions to the RSL in return for ‘moderate’ demands and, effectively, a disciplining of returned soldier…
Fragmented, parochial, and specialised’: The history curriculum in Australian and New Zealand universities
This article reports the findings of a comprehensive survey of the History curriculum taught at 44 universities in Australia and New Zealand. It reveals the fields of History that were most commonly offered in 2016, as well as how many students took courses in particular fields. The results for Introductory and Upper level courses (which serve different purposes) are separated, and the results from each country, and ‘Group of Eight’ (Go8) and non…
The Numbers Game: History Staffing in Australian and New Zealand Universities
This article reports on the numbers of academic historians employed in History groupings within Australian and New Zealand universities, and examines the results by country, sector, appointment type, seniority and gender. It examines the current data in historical context, building on the findings of previous surveys to indicate trends in History staffing. It shows that staff numbers are stable, but in relative decline. It examines the staff numb…
Charles Bean: Man, Myth, Legacy
Charles Bean: Man, Myth, Legacy . Edited by Peter Stanley (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2017), 249 pp. AU$39.99 (pb)
No End of a Lesson: Australia’s Unified National System of Higher Education / The Australian Idea of a University
The Australian university system educates over a million primarily young Australians every year, earns billions of export dollars through overseas students, is a vector for engagement with foreign
War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature
War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature. Edited by Philip Dwyer (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017). 324 pp. US$130.00 (cloth)
The War with Germany
The War with Germany . By Robert Stevenson (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp.xvi + 303, AU$59.95 (cloth)
Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War
Defending Whose Country? examines the wartime and post-war experiences of three colonised peoples who contributed to the Allied effort to contain, and then push back and defeat, the Japanese in the
The Minefield of Australian Military History
Between 2014 and 2018 Australia, like many other nations, is commemorating the centenary of the First World War. This article explores the difficulties that many academics have in traversing the divide between academic and popular history, and suggests why the public reaction to academic military history is often so hostile. It points to the role of national ideals that are underpinned by the Anzac mythology surrounding egalitarianism, mateship a…
Introduction: Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand
Introduction: Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand." The International Journal of the History of Sport, 31(18), pp. 2295–2296
The Role of Sport for Australian POWs of the Turks during the First World War
Nearly 200 Australians were taken prisoner by the Turks during World War I, some 76 of them during the Gallipoli campaign and the remainder over the succeeding three years during the ongoing campaigns against the Ottoman Empire. Approximately a quarter of them died in captivity. In contrast to the experiences of Australians taken prisoner by the Japanese during the Pacific War, Australian history and collective memory, and Australian commemorativ…
Total War and Entitlement: Towards a Global History of Veteran Privilege
By comparing Australia with the USSR (and not with the UK or other British dominions as is most often done) we advance two principal arguments. Firstly, despite the claims of some historians, veterans as a social entity are not the exclusive product of postwar discourse and the postwar political, cultural and social milieux in the countries for which soldiers fought. Rather, their emergence as a social group reflects the experience of mass soldie…
Our Schools and the War
Sport, Popular Culture, and the Future: Some Commentary
Research Article| April 01 2013 Sport, Popular Culture, and the Future: Some Commentary Martin Crotty Martin Crotty School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, The University of Queensland Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2013) 40 (1): 57–67. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.40.1.57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ma…
The One Day of the Year and All That: Anzac between History and Memory
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence, by John Connor, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2011, 235 pp., $59.95 (hardback), ISBN 9781107009509. For so
War Stories in Australia: Scholarship, Memory and Public Intellectualism
‘Sorry, Lads, But the Order is to Go’ – The August Offensive, Gallipoli: 1915. By David Cameron. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009. Pp. 400. A$39.95 paper Gallipoli : The End of the Myth. By Robin Prior. Sy
The RSL: A Rejoinder
A scholarly rebuttal to the article "The Anzac Citizen: Towards a History of the RSL" by Martin Crotty in volume 53, issue 2 (2007) of the journal is presented, followed by a response from Martin Crotty
Australia's History under Howard, 1996-2007
This article argues that since the election of his Coalition government in 1996, John Howard and his conservative allies in government and the media have waged a long campaign to influence the representation and public understanding of Australian history. They have sought to play down the historical harm done to Indigenous Australians and to emphasize more affirming stories of the rise of a new, democratic nation. The conservatives' waging of the…
Australia's History under Howard, 1996-2007
This article argues that since the election of his Coalition government in 1996, John Howard and his conservative allies in government and the media have waged a long campaign to influence the representation and public understanding of Australian history. They have sought to play down the historical harm done to Indigenous Australians and to emphasize more affirming stories of the rise of a new, democratic nation. The conservatives' waging of the…
An Australian “Historikerstreit” ? Review Article
Frontier Conflict. The Australian Experience. Edited by Bain Attwood and S.G. Foster Historical Records of Australia Series III Despatches and Papers Relating to the History of Tasmania, Vol. VIII, Tasmania, January‐December 1829. Edited by Peter Chapman The History Wars. By Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark Whitewash. On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Edited by Robert Manne The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. By Keith W…
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Colour, movement and jostling in public
A brief note on the issue, 'Parading Ourselves' is provided. It contains articles offering an examination of the different meanings and roles that public marches, demonstrations and processions, played in Australia. The contributions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including politics, history, performance studies, anthropology, law and journalism, and activists themselves illustrate both the importance and complexity of the parade, w…
The making of the Man: Australian public schoolboy sporting violence 1850-1914
Manly and moral: The making of middle‐class men in the Australian public school
(2000). Manly and moral: the making of middle‐class men in the Australian public school. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 17, Sport in Australasian society Past and Present, pp. 10-30
Separate and distinct'? The manual labour question in nineteenth‐century Victorian rowing
The Role of Sport for Australian POWs of the Turks during the First World War
Nearly 200 Australians were taken prisoner by the Turks during World War I, some 76 of them during the Gallipoli campaign and the remainder over the succeeding three years during the ongoing campaigns against the Ottoman Empire. Approximately a quarter of them died in captivity. In contrast to the experiences of Australians taken prisoner by the Japanese during the Pacific War, Australian history and collective memory, and Australian commemorativ…
Separate and distinct'? The manual labour question in nineteenth‐century Victorian rowing
Books
Australian Feminism: A Companion. Edited by Barbara Caine, Moira Gatens, Emma Grahame, Jan Larbalestier, Sophie Watson and Elizabeth Webby. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxix + 607. $87.50 cloth. The Imaginary Australian: Anglo‐Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present By Miriam Dixson. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 216. $27.95 paper. Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism. By Marilyn Lake.…
Manly and moral: The making of middle‐class men in the Australian public school
(2000). Manly and moral: the making of middle‐class men in the Australian public school. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 17, Sport in Australasian society Past and Present, pp. 10-30
Books
Radical Melbourne: A Secret History. By Jeff Sparrow and Jill Sparrow. Melbourne: Vulgar Press, 2001. Pp 223. $44.95 paper. To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity. By Angela Woollacott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 298. $69.95 paper. Making the Australian Male: Middle‐Class Masculinity, 1870–1920. By Martin Crotty. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 301. $38.45 paper. The Murray…
Australia's Heart of Darkness
The making of the Man: Australian public schoolboy sporting violence 1850-1914
Pointing the way -- antipodean responses to J.A. Mangan's athleticism and related studies: Scotch college, Melbourne, in the inter-war years
Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities
Review(s) of: David Coad, Gender Trouble Down Under: Australian Masculinities, Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes, Valenciennes, 2002. pp. + 199. $44.95 paper; Martin Crotty, Making the Australian Male; Middle-Class Masculinity 1870-1920, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001. pp. ix + 301. $38.45 paper
An Australian “Historikerstreit” ? Review Article
Frontier Conflict. The Australian Experience. Edited by Bain Attwood and S.G. Foster Historical Records of Australia Series III Despatches and Papers Relating to the History of Tasmania, Vol. VIII, Tasmania, January‐December 1829. Edited by Peter Chapman The History Wars. By Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark Whitewash. On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Edited by Robert Manne The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. By Keith W…
Sites of Gender: Women, Men and Modernity in Southern Dunedin 1890-1939
This study is the fruit of five years' work by a group of Dunedin scholars into the complex ways in which gender operated as a social structure and a shaping force in the lives of the inhabitants of southern Dunedin in the years from 1890 to World War II. It is significant in several ways: in its reliance on the huge database developed from the 1970s by the Caversham Project; in its interdisciplinary character, with contributions from the fields …
History as Service Teaching Possibilities and Pitfalls
This article considers some of the potential possibilities and pitfalls in teaching History as a compulsory course for professional degrees in areas such as education and journalism. It considers two quite different models for curriculum design based on distinct student cohorts, and suggests some of the dangers that need to be avoided, and some of the arrangements that need to be considered for desirable outcomes, in such service teaching situati…
Performing military manhood: The wartime head of the river races in Melbourne, 1915–1918
Head of the River Races' event was invested with significance for all the main parties concerned. These parties included the rowers, the spectators, and the readers of the newspaper reports with spectators indulging in their usual, partly carnivalesque activities secure in the knowledge of the races' martial merits and of the loyalty of their middle-class fellows. It was further aided by the hanging of signs encouraging enlistments and by the fac…
Colour, movement and jostling in public
A brief note on the issue, 'Parading Ourselves' is provided. It contains articles offering an examination of the different meanings and roles that public marches, demonstrations and processions, played in Australia. The contributions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including politics, history, performance studies, anthropology, law and journalism, and activists themselves illustrate both the importance and complexity of the parade, w…
The Anzac Citizen: Towards a History of the RSL
This article examines the early years of the Returned Sailors’and Soldiers’Imperial League of Australia (RSSILA, later RSL). It argues that ideas of citizenship were pivotal to the world view and activism of the RSL as it sought to advance the interests and outlooks of its members. The RSL claimed that its members had served the nation and empire to such an extent that their citizenship status was enhanced, while that of those who had not served …
Anzac Day, Brisbane, Australia: Triumphalism, mourning and politics in interwar commemoration
This article proceeds through a case study of commemorative rhetoric in a British settler state, Australia, and in a provincial capital, Brisbane, whose dominant commemorative group, the Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (ADCC), had claims to have invented the national memorial rituals for the principal day of remembrance. It briefly surveys the broader Australian commemorative background, then explores the control of Anzac Day in Brisbane, focus…
The RSL: A Rejoinder
A scholarly rebuttal to the article "The Anzac Citizen: Towards a History of the RSL" by Martin Crotty in volume 53, issue 2 (2007) of the journal is presented, followed by a response from Martin Crotty
Australia's History under Howard, 1996-2007
This article argues that since the election of his Coalition government in 1996, John Howard and his conservative allies in government and the media have waged a long campaign to influence the representation and public understanding of Australian history. They have sought to play down the historical harm done to Indigenous Australians and to emphasize more affirming stories of the rise of a new, democratic nation. The conservatives' waging of the…
War Stories in Australia: Scholarship, Memory and Public Intellectualism
‘Sorry, Lads, But the Order is to Go’ – The August Offensive, Gallipoli: 1915. By David Cameron. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2009. Pp. 400. A$39.95 paper Gallipoli : The End of the Myth. By Robin Prior. Sy
The One Day of the Year and All That: Anzac between History and Memory
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence, by John Connor, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2011, 235 pp., $59.95 (hardback), ISBN 9781107009509. For so
Total War and Entitlement: Towards a Global History of Veteran Privilege
By comparing Australia with the USSR (and not with the UK or other British dominions as is most often done) we advance two principal arguments. Firstly, despite the claims of some historians, veterans as a social entity are not the exclusive product of postwar discourse and the postwar political, cultural and social milieux in the countries for which soldiers fought. Rather, their emergence as a social group reflects the experience of mass soldie…
Our Schools and the War
Sport, Popular Culture, and the Future: Some Commentary
Research Article| April 01 2013 Sport, Popular Culture, and the Future: Some Commentary Martin Crotty Martin Crotty School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, The University of Queensland Correspondence to [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2013) 40 (1): 57–67. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.40.1.57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ma…
The Minefield of Australian Military History
Between 2014 and 2018 Australia, like many other nations, is commemorating the centenary of the First World War. This article explores the difficulties that many academics have in traversing the divide between academic and popular history, and suggests why the public reaction to academic military history is often so hostile. It points to the role of national ideals that are underpinned by the Anzac mythology surrounding egalitarianism, mateship a…
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