how Priya Satia's Time’s Monster landed like a bomb in my historian's brain
- Written by Yves Rees, Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
The university, and its pursuit of knowledge, was part of the colonial project. And historians, writes Satia, were key architects of empire.Dave Hunt/AAPIn this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking.
I’ve always wanted to be a historian. From childhood, I was captivated by the idea of...





