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Forsyth examines the rise of the professional middle class in the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. She argues that the British middle class structured forms of virtue into expanding white-collar professional work, needed to drive both economic and civilizational expansion across the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

Every 31 December, hundreds of thousands of sweltering revelers gather around the edges of Sydney Harbour, anticipating the fireworks that mark the arrival of the New Year. The ritual seems so embedded in Sydney culture that it seems it must always have been thus. It has not. Hannah Forsyth analyses the emergence of New Year's Eve in Sydney and considers what lies beneath it. Why did the celebration of New Year's Eve coincide with industrializ...

A perceptive, clear-eyed account of Australian universities, recounting their history from the 1850s to the present. Investigating the changing nature of higher education, this book asks whether this success is likely to continue in the 21st century, as the university's hold over knowledge grows ever more tenuous.