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

这个项目的目的是产生第一个完整的历史，其中一个最大胆的企业在澳大利亚出版。在上世纪中叶冷战时期的澳大利亚，澳大利亚图书协会试图培养新的读者和作家。该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，将有助于我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对澳大利亚文学身份的新见解，是为子孙后代保存的档案，对于决定全球冷战历史的澳大利亚来说，这是一个发人深省的案例。

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.