Bibliography of Australian history


This is a bibliography of selected publications on the history of Australia.

Surveys

  • Atkinson, Alan. The Europeans in Australia: A History. Vol. 2: Democracy.. 440 pp.
  • Basset, Jan. The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of Australian History
  • Bolton, Geoffrey. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 5: 1942–1995. The Middle Way
  • Clark, Manning. A History of Australia 6 vol
  • Clarke, Frank G. The History of Australia.
  • Day, David. Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia ;
  • Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding.
  • Kingston, Beverley. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 3: 1860–1900 Glad, Confident Morning
  • Kociumbas, Jan. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 2: 1770–1860 Possessions
  • Macintyre, Stuart. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 4: 1901–42, the Succeeding Age
  • Macintyre, Stuart. A Concise History of Australia
  • Schreuder, Deryck, and Stuart Ward, eds. Australia's Empire
  • Welsh, Frank. ''Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land''

Journals

Australian Cultural History

Specialty studies

  • Alomes, Stephen. A Nation at Last? The Changing Character of Australian Nationalism
  • Atkinson, Alan. The Europeans in Australia: A History. Vol. 2: Democracy. Oxford U. Pr., 2005. 440 pp.
  • Crowley; F. K. Australia's Western Third: A History of Western Australia from the First Settlements to Modern Times
  • online at OUP
  • Day, David. Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan 1942–45,
  • Goodall, Heather. Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770–1972
  • Edwards, John. Curtin's Gift: Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister,
  • Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding.
  • , First World War
  • Kingston, Beverley. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 3: 1860–1900 Glad, Confident Morning
  • Kociumbas, Jan. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 2: 1770–1860 Possessions
  • Lowe, David. Menzies and the 'Great World Struggle': Australia's Cold War 1948–54
  • Macintyre, Stuart. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 4: 1901–42, the Succeeding Age
  • Macintyre, Stuart. A Concise History of Australia
  • McLachlan, Noel. Waiting for the Revolution: A History of Australian Nationalism
  • Martin, A. W. Robert Menzies: A Life, online at ACLS e-books
  • Reynolds, Henry. The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia.
  • Ward, Smart. ''Australia and the British Embrace: The Demise of the Imperial Ideal''

Recent political history (since 1939)

  • Aulich, Chris, ed. From Abbott to Turnbull: A New Direction?
  • Bolton, Geoffrey. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 5: 1942–1995. The Middle Way
  • Edwards, John. Curtin's Gift: Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister,
  • Evans, Mark et al. eds. From Turnbull to Morrison: Understanding the Trust Divide
  • Kelly, Paul. The End of Certainty: Power, Politics & Business in Australia ; originally published as The End of Certainty: The Story of the 1980s
  • McDougall, Derek. "From Malcolm Turnbull to ScoMo: crisis for the centre-right in Australia." The Round Table 107.5 : 557-570.
  • Manning, Paddy. Born to rule: the unauthorised biography of Malcolm Turnbull.
  • Martin, A. W. Robert Menzies: A Life, online at ACLS e-books
  • Megalogenis, George. The Longest Decade, politics 1990–2008
  • Moran, Anthony. Australia: Nation, Belonging, and Globalization
  • Turnbull, Malcolm. Fighting for the Republic.
  • Walsh, Mary, et al. The Revolving Door of Australian Prime Ministers.
  • Weinert, Kim D., and Kieran Tranter. "The empty centre: The Hollowmen and representations of techno-political elites in Australian public life." Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, 18: 11, pp. 1–9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/eslj.268ESLJ ; argues that the 2008–2009 Australian Broadcasting Corporation comedy "The Hollowmen" unveils an empty centre within the nation's public life.

Diplomacy and military

  • Australian War Memorial. with scores of topics
  • Bou, Jean. Light Horse: A History of Australia's Mounted Arm
  • Bridge, Carl ed., Munich to Vietnam: Australia's Relations with Britain and the United States since the 1930s, Melbourne University Press 1991
  • Dennis, Peter, Jeffrey Grey, Ewan Morris, and Robin Prior. The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History. 1996)
  • Firth, Stewart. Australia in International Politics: An Introduction to Australian Foreign Policy
  • Grant, Ian. A Dictionary of Australian Military History – from Colonial Times to the Gulf War
  • Gyngell; Allan, and Michael Wesley. Making Australian Foreign Policy
  • Harper, Norman. A Great and Powerful Friend: A Study of Australian American Relations Between 1900-1975
  • Lee, David. Search for Security: The Political Economy of Australia's Postwar Foreign and Defence Policy
  • Lowe, David. Menzies and the 'Great World Struggle': Australia's Cold War 1948–54
  • McLean, David. "From British Colony to American Satellite? Australia and the USA during the Cold War," Australian Journal of Politics & History 52, 64–79. Rejects satellite model.
  • McLean, David. "Australia in the Cold War: a Historiographical Review." International History Review 23: 299–321.
  • Millar, T. B. Australia in peace and war : external relations 1788-1977, 612pp
  • Murphy, John. Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia's Vietnam War
  • Watt, Alan. The Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy 1938–1965, Cambridge University Press, 1967

Second World War

Homefront

  • Hasluck, Paul The Government and the People, 1939–41 ; The Government and the People, 1942–45
  • Blum, Timothy. "Profits Over Patriotism: Black Market Crime in World War II Sydney.".
  • Butlin, S.J. War Economy, 1939–42
  • Butlin, S.J. and C.B. Schedvin, War Economy 1942–1945,
  • Darian-Smith, Kate. On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime, 1939–1945. Australia: Oxford UP, 1990.
  • Fort, Carol. "Regulating the labour market in Australia's wartime democracy." Australian Historical Studies 34.122 : 213–230.
  • Goot, Murray. "Labor's 1943 landslide: Political market research, Evatt, and the public opinion polls." Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History 107 : 149–166.
  • McKernan, Michael. Australia During the Second World War: All In!.
  • Mellor, D.P. The Role of Science and Industry
  • Saunders, Kay. War on the Homefront: State Intervention in Queensland, 1938–1948
  • Saunders, Kay. "The dark shadow of white Australia: racial anxieties in Australia in World War II." Ethnic and Racial Studies 17#2 : 325–341.
  • Saunders, Kay. "‘The stranger in our gates’: Internment policies in the United Kingdom and Australia during the two world wars, 1914–39." Immigrants & Minorities 22#1 : 22–43.
  • Spear, Jonathan A. "Embedded: the Australian Red Cross in the Second World War.".
  • Willis, Ian C. "The women's voluntary services, a study of war and volunteering in Camden, 1939–1945.".

Economics, business and labour

  • Bramble, Tom. Trade Unionism in Australia: A History from Flood to Ebb Tide
  • Clark, Victor S. "Australian Economic Problems. I. The Railways," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 399–451, history to 1907
  • Collins, Jock, and Jock Collins. A shop full of dreams: Ethnic small business in Australia.
  • Cooper, Rae, and Bradon Ellem. "The neoliberal state, trade unions and collective bargaining in Australia." British Journal of Industrial Relations 46.3 : 532-554.
  • Dyster, Barrie, and David Meredith. Australia in the global economy: continuity and change
  • Fleming, Grant, David Merrett, and Simon Ville. The big end of town: Big business and corporate leadership in twentieth-century Australia, comprehensive history of corporate life since 1850s.
  • Hearn, Mark, Harry Knowles, and Ian Cambridge. One Big Union: A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886–1994
  • Kirk, Neville. Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia, 1900 to the Present.
  • Merrett, David T., and Simon Ville. "Financing growth: new issues by Australian firms, 1920–1939." Business History Review 83.3 : 563-589.
  • Merrett, David, and Simon Ville. "Tariffs, Subsidies, And Profits: A Re-Assessment Of Structural Change In Australia 1901–39." Australian Economic History Review 51.1 : 46-70.
  • Milton-Smith, John. "Business ethics in Australia and New Zealand." Journal of Business ethics 16.14 : 1485-1497.
  • Nielsen, James F., Chris Terry, and Rowan M. Trayler. "Business banking in Australia: a comparison of expectations." International Journal of Bank Marketing.
  • Panza, Laura, Simon Ville, and David Merrett. "The drivers of firm longevity: Age, size, profitability and survivorship of Australian corporations, 1901–1930." Business History 60.2 : 157-177.
  • Rafferty, Mike, and Serena Yu. Shifting risk: work and working life in Australia: a report for the Australian Council of Trade Unions .
  • Ville, Simon, and David Tolmie Merrett. "Investing in a Wealthy Resource-Based Colonial Economy: International Business in Australia before World War I." Business History Review 94.2 : 321-346.
  • Wright, Chris F., and Russell D. Lansbury. "Trade unions and economic reform in Australia, 1983–2013." Singapore Economic Review 59.04 :

Culture, society, race, ethnicity, gender

  • Arrow, Michelle. Friday on our minds: popular culture in Australia since 1945.
  • Babatunde-Sowole, Olutoyin O., et al. "'Coming to a Strange Land' The West African Migrant Women’s Establishment of Home and Family in a New Culture Within Australia." Journal of Transcultural Nursing 27.5 : 447-455.
  • Bennett, Bruce et al. The Oxford Literary History of Australia
  • Bennett, Tony, and David Carter. Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs
  • Carey, Hilary. Believing in Australia: A Cultural History of Religions.
  • Collins, Jock, and Jock Collins. A shop full of dreams: Ethnic small business in Australia.
  • Crawford, Robert. "Selling modernity: advertising and the construction of the culture of consumption in Australia, 1900-1950." ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia 24-25.
  • Fiske, John, Bob Hodge, and Graeme Turner. Myths of Oz: reading Australian popular culture.
  • Harris, Anita. "In a Girlie World: Tweenies in Australia." Counterpoints 245 : 209-223.
  • Kapferer, Bruce. Legends of people, myths of state: violence, intolerance, and political culture in Sri Lanka and Australia.
  • Kleinert, Sylvia. and Margo Neale. The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture
  • Moran, Albert. Historical Dictionary of Australian Radio and Television
  • O'Brien, Patricia. "Remaking Australia's Colonial Culture?: White Australia and its Papuan Frontier 1901–1940." Australian Historical Studies 40.1 : 96-112.
  • Peppard, Judith. "Culture wars in South Australia: the sex education debates." Australian Journal of Social Issues 43.3 : 499-516.
  • Rutland, Suzanne D. The Jews in Australia.
  • Schneider, Tanja, and Teresa Davis. "Advertising food in Australia: Between antinomies and gastro-anomy." Consumption, Markets and Culture 13.1 : 31-41 .
  • Skinner, Natalie, and Barbara Pocock. "Work, life, flexibility and workplace culture in Australia: results of the 2008 Australian Work and Life Index Survey." Australian Bulletin of Labour 36.2 : 133-154.
  • Staniforth, Mark. Material culture and consumer society: dependent colonies in colonial Australia.
  • Stratton, Jon. Uncertain lives: Culture, race and neoliberalism in Australia.
  • Ward, Stuart. "The “new nationalism” in Australia, Canada and New Zealand: Civic culture in the wake of the British world." in Britishness abroad: Transnational movements and imperial cultures pp: 231-36.
  • Webby, Elizabeth, ed. ''The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature''

Environment and geography

  • Bolton, Geoffrey. Spoils and Spoilers: Australians Make Their Environment, 1788–1980.
  • Cathcart, Michael. The water dreamers: the remarkable history of our dry continent .
  • Doyle, Timothy, and Tsarina Doyle. Green power: the environment movement in Australia.
  • Dunlap, Thomas R. Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
  • Frost, Lionel, and Seamus O'Hanlon. "Urban history and the future of Australian cities." Australian Economic History Review 49.1 : 1-18.
  • Garden, Donald S., and Mark R. Stoll. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History
  • Howes, Michael. Politics and the Environment: Risk and the Role of Government and Industry compares Britain, USA and Australia.
  • Hutton, Drew, and Libby Connors. History of the Australian Environment Movement
  • Lines, William J. Taming the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia
  • Powell, J. M. Watering the Garden State: Water, Land and Community in Victoria 1834–1988.
  • Pyne, Stephen J. Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia
  • Robin, Libby. "Australia in global environmental history" in A Companion to Global Environmental History Edited by J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin. pp 182–195..
  • Robin, Libby. Defending the Little Desert: The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia.
  • Rolls, E. They All Ran Wild: The Animals and Plants that Plague Australia.
  • Seddon, George. Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape
  • Tranter, Bruce. "Environmental activists and non-active environmentalists in Australia." Environmental Politics 19.3 : 413-429.
  • Tranter, Bruce. "Leadership and change in the Tasmanian environment movement." Leadership Quarterly 20.5 : 708-724
  • Williams, Michael. The Making of the South Australian Landscape.
  • Wright, R. The Bureaucrat ’s Domain: Space and the Public Interest in Victoria 1836–1884,.

Historiography

  • Attwood, Bain, and Fiona Magowan. Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand
  • Bongiorno, Frank. "'Real Solemn History' and Its Discontents: Australian Political History and the Challenge of Social History," Australian Journal of Politics and History 56#1 pp 6+
  • Bonnell, Andrew G. and Martin Crotty, "An Australian 'Historikerstreit'? Review Article," Australian Journal of Politics & History 50#3 pp 425–433
  • Case, Jo. "Who Killed Australian History?" In History
  • Coombes, Annie E. Rethinking Settler Colonialism: History and Memory in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa
  • Davison, Graeme. The Use and Abuse of Australian History
  • Gare, Deborah. "Britishness in recent Australian historiography." Historical Journal 43#4 : 1145–1155.
  • Hirst, John, and Stuart Macintyre, eds, The Oxford Companion to Australian History ; many articles have a historiographical component
  • McIntyre, Stuart. The History Wars see History wars article
  • McIntyre, Stuart, and Julian Thomas, eds, The Discovery of Australian History 1890–1939
  • McLean, David. "Australia in the Cold War: A Historiographical Review", The International History Review, Vol. 23, 2
  • McQueen, Humphrey. Gallipoli to Petrov: Arguing with Australian History,
  • Meaney, Neville. "Britishness and Australian Identity: The Problem of Nationalism in Australian History and Historiography", Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 32, 116,
  • Nugent, Maria. Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet
  • Waterhouse, Richard. "Locating the New Social History: transnational historiography and Australian local history", Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 95#1 pp. 1–17.

Primary sources

  • Kemp, Rod, and Marion Stanton, eds. Speaking for Australia: Parliamentary Speeches That Shaped Our Nation Allen & Unwin, 2004
  • Crowley, Frank, ed. Modern Australia in documents, volume 1, 1901–1939 ; Modern Australia in Documents, 1939–1970. Wren Publishing, Melbourne..