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Hannah Forsyth is a historian at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney. She was President of Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society 2020-1. Her first book was A History of the Modern Australian University (2014).
'Bold and original, brilliantly conceived and deeply researched, Virtue Capitalists shows the necessity of a transnational historical perspective to understanding the rise and decline of the professional class in the modern world. The book also illuminates the vanguard role of paradoxically progressive settler colonial societies in this dynamic process.' Marilyn Lake, The University of Melbourne 'Hannah Forsyth's book is an original and enlightening examination of the crucial role of globalising professional classes in the development of capitalism from the late nineteenth century onwards. In particular, she shows that these groups developed their own form of class consciousness through values like duty, charity, thrift, probity and cleanliness. Later, welfare states were built by these professionals as the progressive foundation for advanced societies in the postwar years. Dr Forsyth has produced a challenging and intellectually sustained argument that will be read with considerable interest and attention.' Christopher Llyod, University of New England
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