VOL 6.2, 2001:   editorial   |   inasa   |   executive   |   essays   |   conferences   |   news   |   publications   Anxious Nation — Ernest Scott prize   David Walker's recent book, Anxious Nation: Australia and the rise of Asia 1850-1939 (UQP 1999) has been awarded the 2001 Ernest Scott prize for the best history of Australia or New Zealand published in the previous two years, 1999/2000. The book was published as part of the UQP Australian Studies series, an initiative of the API Network and InASA. The announcement of the award, from Professor Pat Grimshaw, Department of History, the University of Melbourne, reads, in part:   Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that the History Department's Ernest Scott prize for 2001 (for books on Australian and New Zealand history published in 1999 and 2000) has been awarded to the Deakin historian, David Walker, for his important monograph Anxious Nation. The judges were Alan Atkinson (UNE) and Charlotte Macdonald (Victoria University of Wellington). Their citation is as follows:   David Walker's book, Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia 1850-1939, is a beautifully controlled work, impressive in its breadth and subtlety and in its depth of scholarship. It makes use of an unusual range of evidence, from literature and visual art to records of trade and diplomacy. It is especially effective in its finely nuanced account of attitudes to race. It thus adds very considerably to our understanding of Australia's long relationship with eastern and southern Asia and also of the complexities of racism, past and present.   We offer David Walker our warm congratulations!   Contents   |   Next Page