Stuart Ward

About The Author

Stuart Ward is Professor and Head of the Saxo Institute for History, Ethnology, Archaeology and Classics at the University of Copenhagen, specializing in imperial history, particularly the political and social consequences of decolonization. His most recent publications include Embers of Empire in Brexit Britain (with Astrid Rasch, ed., 2019) and A World History of the End of Britain (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).

Books by Stuart Ward

Unknown Nation

Australia After Empire

By James Curran and Stuart Ward
The Unknown Nation is an illuminating history of Australia's putative 'search' for national identity.James Curran and Stuart Ward document how the receding ties of empire and Britishness posed an unprecedented dilemma as Australians lost their traditional ways of defining themselves as a people.W...
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Australia And The British Embrace

The Demise of the Imperial Ideal

By Stuart Ward
Until a generation ago, 'Britishness' lay at the heart of Australian political culture. How and why did this fundamental idea lose its meaning for Australians and their political institutions? The popular view is that the British ideal succumbed to a triumphant, long-thwarted Australian national...
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