Guide to the Papers of Neville Meaney, 1977-1999

 

Collection context

Summary

Collection number:
MS 7330
Creator:
Neville Meaney
Extent:
3.26 metres and (18 boxes, 2 folio boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], MS 7330, National Library of Australia, Papers of Neville Meaney, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Part available for research; part permission required for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:
Papers relating to the exhibition 'Towards a New Vision: Australia Japan, a Hundred Years of Photographs', which was held in 1997 to commemorate the centenary of relationships between Australia and Japan, form the major part of the 1999 donation. Included also are papers relating to Meaney's book Towards a new vision: Australia and Japan through 100 years (1999) which was based on the exhibition.
Biographical Note:

Professor Neville Kingsley Meaney was educated at the University of Adelaide (MA) and Duke University (PhD). He went on to join the History Department of the University of Sydney, where he is an Associate Professor of History.

Meaney has won a number of awards, including the State Department Distinguished International Visitor Award (1976); the Australia-Japan Foundation Research Award (1982); and a National Library of Australia Harold White Fellowship (1984).

A member of the International Commission on International History in 1984; Visiting Professor of History and Australian Studies, University of Texas in 1990; and a lecturer in the Australian Senate's Occasional lecture series in 1995, Meaney has also been a member of the Advisory Panel to the Japan Foundation's Asia Centre. In 1997 he was Chair of the Australia-Japan Centenary Committee.

Meaney's main interests are in the field of international relations and foreign policy, especially Australia's relations with Asia.

Apart from his works The Japanese connection (1988) and Towards a New vision: Australia Japan through 100 years (1999), Meaney has published books and articles on Australia's relations with the world. These include A history of Australian defence and foreign policy, 1901-23: volume 1, The search for security in the Pacific, 1901-1914 (1976); Australia and the world: a documentary history from the 1870s to the 1970s (1985); Under new heavens: cultural transmission and the making of Australia (1989) and Fears and phobias: E. L. Piesse and the problem with Japan, 1909 - 1939 (1996).

Meaney has also participated in oral history projects. The National Library holds the Neville Meaney collection of interviews with Australian historians (ORAL TRC 2053), with 23 interviews held during 1986 and 1987.

Provenance:

Papers associated with 'A survey of Australian leaders' attitudes towards Japan', a project conducted by Professors Neville Meaney, Trevor Matthews and Sol Encel in 1982, were purchased from Neville Meaney in 1987. In 1999 Professor Meaney donated the papers relating to the book The Japanese Connection (1988), a work that was an outcome of this survey. A small percentage of the material was obtained from Japanese sources and is in Japanese.

Arrangement:

Library staff have imposed the overall arrangement of the papers but the files maintained by Meaney have been kept intact. Exceptions are Series 1, folders 1-4, and Series 3, folders 1-2, which are correspondence files that have been arranged in chronological order.

Indexed terms

Names:
Neville Meaney

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1089484).
Conditions Governing Use:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s).Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], MS 7330, National Library of Australia, Papers of Neville Meaney, [box number and series and/or file number]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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