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Virtue Capitalists explores the rise of the professional middle class across the Anglophone world from c. 1870 to 2008. With a focus on British settler colonies – Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States – Hannah Forsyth argues that the British middle class structured old forms of virtue into rapidly expanding white-collar professional work, needed to drive both economic and civilizational expansion across their settler colonies. They invested that virtue to produce social and economic profit. This virtue became embedded in the networked Anglophone economy so that, by the mid...

Every 31 December, hundreds of thousands of sweltering revelers gather around the edges of Sydney Harbour, anticipating the fireworks that mark the arrival of the New Year. The ritual seems so embedded in Sydney culture that it seems it must always have been thus. It has not. Hannah Forsyth analyses the emergence of New Years Eve in Sydney and considers what lies beneath it. Why did the celebration of New Years Eve coincide with industrialization? How do we understand the connections between urban pleasure and modernity in the social and economic structure of modern cities? This book details...

In 1857 all of the Arts students at the University of Sydney could fit into a single photograph. Now there are more than one million university students in Australia. After World War II, Australian universities became less elite but more important, growing from six small institutions educating less than 0.2 per cent of the population to a system enrolling over a quarter of high school graduates. And yet, universities today are plagued with ingrained problems. More than 50 per cent of the cost of universities goes to just running them. They now have an explicit commercial focus. They compete...