Cochrane P
Aust Hist Stud. 1999;30(113):303-18.
Herbert Brookes was a wealthy businessman, a distinguished patron of high culture in Melbourne society, an anti-Labor eminence who moved comfortably in the highest of imperial circles. The richness of his papers in the National Library provides the opportunity to examine the life of a leading British-Australian, to analyse issues of conscience and purpose that do not figure much in current historiography and perhaps to throw new light on the concerns of the generation that saw its world disrupted after 1914. Using the notion of Protestant stewardship, I have suggested that Brookes' life offers one way into the dynamics of liberalism before the Great War and of loyalism after it.
赫伯特·布鲁克斯是一位富有的商人，墨尔本社会高雅文化的杰出赞助人，一位反工党显要人物，能轻松出入帝国的最高层圈子。他存于国家图书馆的大量文件，为审视一位杰出英裔澳大利亚人的生活、分析那些在当前史学研究中不太受关注的良知和目标问题，以及或许为1914年后目睹其世界分崩离析的那代人的担忧带来新的启示提供了契机。运用新教管家的概念，我认为布鲁克斯的一生为理解一战前自由主义和战后忠诚主义的动态变化提供了一个切入点。
