Making New Readers: The Australasian Book Society and the Cold War

这个项目旨在制作澳大利亚出版业最大胆的冒险之一的第一部完整历史。在本世纪中叶的冷战时期，澳大利亚图书协会试图培养新的读者和作家。这个项目利用丰富的档案资源网络，展示了该协会是否以及如何实现了这些雄心勃勃的目标。对草根民族主义出版商独特商业模式的新认识将使人们更深入地了解澳大利亚工人阶级写作和阅读的发展。这将为一个仍致力于阅读的国家提供关于澳大利亚文学身份的新见解，为子孙后代保存一个档案，并为决定冷战的全球历史提供一个启发性的澳大利亚案例。

This project aims to produce the first full history of one of the boldest ventures in Australian publishing. The Australasian Book Society sought to develop new readers and writers in mid-century Cold War Australia. Using a rich web of archival sources, this project shows whether and how the Society met those ambitious aims. New knowledge about the unique business model of a grassroots nationalist publisher will lead to deeper understanding of the development of Australian working-class writing and reading. This will afford new insights into Australian literary identity for a nation still committed to reading, an archive preserved for future generations and, for the determining global history of the Cold War, a revealing Australian case.