Bibliography of Australian history

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

Reference books

* Barker, Anthony. ''What Happened When: A Chronology of Australia from 1788.'' Allen & Unwin. 2000
online edition
* Bambrick, Susan ed. ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia'' (1994)
* Barker, Anthony. ''What Happened When: A Chronology of Australia from 1788.'' Allen & Unwin. 2000
online edition
* Basset, Jan. ''The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of Australian History'' (1998)
* online at OUP als
excerpt and text search
* Day, Alan. ''Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia.'' Scarecrow, 2003. 321 pp.
* Docherty, J. C. ''Historical Dictionary of Australia'' (2007) (2001);
* Galligan, Brian, and Winsome Roberts, eds. ''Oxford Companion to Australian Politics'' (2007); online at many academic libraries
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* O'Shane, Pat et al. ''Australia: The Complete Encyclopedia'' (2001)
* Serle. Percival, ed. ''Dictionary of Australian Biography'' (1949

* Shaw, John, ed. ''Collins Australian Encyclopedia'' (1984)
* Taylor, Peter. ''The Atlas of Australian History'' (1991)
* ''The Year-book of the Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the colonies and India: a statistical record of the resources and trade of the colonial and Indian possessions of the British Empire'' (2nd. ed. 1893) 880pp; Australia = pp 521–71
online edition

Surveys

* Atkinson, Alan. ''The Europeans in Australia: A History. Vol. 2: Democracy.'' (2005). 440 pp.
* Basset, Jan. ''The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of Australian History'' (1998)
* Bolton, Geoffrey. ''The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 5: 1942–1995. The Middle Way'' (2005)
* Clark, Manning. ''A History of Australia'' 6 vol (Melbourne University Press, 1962, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1981, and 1987)
* Clarke, Frank G. ''The History of Australia'' (2002)
online edition
* Day, David. ''Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia'' (2001);
* Hughes, Robert. '' The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding'' (1988)
excerpt and text search
* Kingston, Beverley. ''The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 3: 1860–1900 Glad, Confident Morning'' (1993)
* Kociumbas, Jan. ''The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 2: 1770–1860 Possessions'' (1995)
* Macintyre, Stuart. ''The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 4: 1901–42, the Succeeding Age'' (1993)
* Macintyre, Stuart. ''A Concise History of Australia'' (2nd. ed. 2009
excerpt and text search

* Schreuder, Deryck, and Stuart Ward, eds. ''Australia's Empire'' (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series) (2008
excerpt and text search
* Welsh, Frank. ''Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land'' (2008)

Journals

* '' Australian Cultural History'' (last issue volume 28, 2–3, 2010)
*'' Australian Economic History Review''
* ''Australian Historical Studies''
* ''Australian Journal of Politics and History''
* '' History Australia''
* '' Journal of Australian Colonial History''
* '' Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society''

Specialty studies

* Alomes, Stephen. ''A Nation at Last? The Changing Character of Australian Nationalism'' (1988)
* Atkinson, Alan. ''The Europeans in Australia: A History. Vol. 2: Democracy.'' Oxford U. Pr., 2005. 440 pp.
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* Crowley; F. K. ''Australia's Western Third: A History of Western Australia from the First Settlements to Modern Times'' 196
online edition
* online at OUP als
excerpt and text search
* Day, David. ''Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan 1942–45'' (1992),
* Goodall, Heather. ''Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770–1972'' (Allen&Unwin, 1996)
* Edwards, John. ''Curtin's Gift: Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister,'' (2005
online edition
* Hughes, Robert. ''The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding'' (1988)
excerpt and text search
*, First World War
* Kingston, Beverley. ''The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 3: 1860–1900 Glad, Confident Morning'' (1993)
* Kociumbas, Jan. ''The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 2: 1770–1860 Possessions'' (1995)
* Lowe, David. ''Menzies and the 'Great World Struggle': Australia's Cold War 1948–54'' (1999
online edition
* Macintyre, Stuart. ''The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 4: 1901–42, the Succeeding Age'' (1993)
* Macintyre, Stuart. ''A Concise History of Australia'' (2004
excerpt and text search
* McLachlan, Noel. ''Waiting for the Revolution: A History of Australian Nationalism'' (1989)
* Martin, A. W. ''Robert Menzies: A Life'' (2 vol 1993–99), online at ACLS e-books
* Reynolds, Henry. ''The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia'' (1990).
* Ward, Smart. ''Australia and the British Embrace: The Demise of the Imperial Ideal'' (2001)

Recent political history (since 1939)

* Aulich, Chris, ed. ''From Abbott to Turnbull: A New Direction? '' (Echo, 2016
excerpt
* Bolton, Geoffrey. ''The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 5: 1942–1995. The Middle Way'' (2005)
* Edwards, John. ''Curtin's Gift: Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister,'' (2005
online edition
* Evans, Mark et al. eds. ''From Turnbull to Morrison: Understanding the Trust Divide'' (2019
excerpt

* Kelly, Paul. ''The End of Certainty: Power, Politics & Business in Australia'' (2008); originally published as ''The End of Certainty: The Story of the 1980s'' (1994)

* McDougall, Derek. "From Malcolm Turnbull to ScoMo: crisis for the centre-right in Australia." ''The Round Table'' 107.5 (2018): 557-570.
* Manning, Paddy. ''Born to rule: the unauthorised biography of Malcolm Turnbull'' (Melbourne Univ. Publishing, 2015).

* Martin, A. W. ''Robert Menzies: A Life'' (2 vol 1993–99), online at ACLS e-books
* Megalogenis, George. ''The Longest Decade'' (2nd ed. 2009), politics 1990–2008
* Moran, Anthony. ''Australia: Nation, Belonging, and Globalization'' Routledge, 200
online edition

* Turnbull, Malcolm. ''Fighting for the Republic'' (Hardie Grant Books, 1999).
* Walsh, Mary, et al. ''The Revolving Door of Australian Prime Ministers'' (Melbourne University Press, 2019).
* 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,'' (2020) 18: 11, pp. 1–9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/eslj.268ESLJ'
online
argues that the 2008–2009 Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) comedy "The Hollowmen" unveils an empty centre within the nation's public life.

Diplomacy and military

* Australian War Memorial
''Encyclopedia'' online
with scores of topics
* Bou, Jean. ''Light Horse: A History of Australia's Mounted Arm'' (Australian Army History Series) (2009)
* 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'' (2005
online edition
* Grant, Ian. ''A Dictionary of Australian Military History – from Colonial Times to the Gulf War'' (1992)
* Gyngell; Allan, and Michael Wesley. '' Making Australian Foreign Policy'' (Cambridge University Press, 2003
online
* Lee, David. ''Search for Security: The Political Economy of Australia's Postwar Foreign and Defence Policy'' (1995)
* Lowe, David. ''Menzies and the 'Great World Struggle': Australia's Cold War 1948–54'' (1999
online edition
* McLean, David. "From British Colony to American Satellite? Australia and the USA during the Cold War," ''Australian Journal of Politics & History'' (2006) 52 (1), 64–79. Rejects satellite model
online at Blackwell-Synergy
* McLean, David. "Australia in the Cold War: a Historiographical Review." ''International History Review'' (2001) 23(2): 299–321.
* Millar, T. B. ''Australia in peace and war : external relations 1788-1977'' (1978
online
612pp

* Murphy, John. ''Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia's Vietnam War'' (1993)
* Watt, Alan. ''The Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy 1938–1965,'' Cambridge University Press, 1967

Second World War

"Second World War Official Histories" 22 vol 1952–77; online

Homefront

* Hasluck, Paul ''The Government and the People, 1939–41'' (1965
online vol 1
''The Government and the People, 1942–45 (1970)'
online vol 2
* Blum, Timothy. "Profits Over Patriotism: Black Market Crime in World War II Sydney." (2011)
online
* Butlin, S.J. ''War Economy, 1939–42'' (1955
online
* Butlin, S.J. and C.B. Schedvin, ''War Economy 1942–1945,'' (1977
online
* 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 (2003): 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 (2014): 149–166
in JSTOR
* McKernan, Michael. ''Australia During the Second World War: All In!'' (Nelson, 1983).
* Mellor, D.P. ''The Role of Science and Industry'' (1958
online
* Saunders, Kay. ''War on the Homefront: State Intervention in Queensland, 1938–1948'' (1993)
* Saunders, Kay. "The dark shadow of white Australia: racial anxieties in Australia in World War II." ''Ethnic and Racial Studies'' 17#2 (1994): 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 (2003): 22–43.
* Spear, Jonathan A. "Embedded: the Australian Red Cross in the Second World War." (2007)
online
* Willis, Ian C. "The women's voluntary services, a study of war and volunteering in Camden, 1939–1945." (2004)
online

Economics, business and labour

* Bramble, Tom. ''Trade Unionism in Australia: A History from Flood to Ebb Tide'' (2008
excerpt and text search
* Clark, Victor S. "Australian Economic Problems. I. The Railways," ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', Vol. 22, No. 3 (May, 1908), pp. 399–45
in JSTOR
history to 1907
* Collins, Jock, and Jock Collins. ''A shop full of dreams: Ethnic small business in Australia'' (Pluto Press Australia, 1995).
* Cooper, Rae, and Bradon Ellem. "The neoliberal state, trade unions and collective bargaining in Australia." ''British Journal of Industrial Relations'' 46.3 (2008): 532-554.
* Dyster, Barrie, and David Meredith. ''Australia in the global economy: continuity and change'' (Cambridge UP, 2012
except

* Fleming, Grant, David Merrett, and Simon Ville. ''The big end of town: Big business and corporate leadership in twentieth-century Australia'' (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
excerpt
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'' (1998)
* Kirk, Neville. ''Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia, 1900 to the Present''(2011).

* Merrett, David T., and Simon Ville. "Financing growth: new issues by Australian firms, 1920–1939." ''Business History Review'' 83.3 (2009): 563-589
online
* 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 (2011): 46-70
online
* Milton-Smith, John. "Business ethics in Australia and New Zealand." ''Journal of Business ethics'' 16.14 (1997): 1485-1497.

* Nielsen, James F., Chris Terry, and Rowan M. Trayler. "Business banking in Australia: a comparison of expectations." ''International Journal of Bank Marketing'' (1998).
* 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 (2018): 157-177
online

* Rafferty, Mike, and Serena Yu. ''Shifting risk: work and working life in Australia: a report for the Australian Council of Trade Unions'' (University of Sydney, Workplace Research Centre, 2010
online

* 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 (2020): 321-346
online

* Wright, Chris F., and Russell D. Lansbury. "Trade unions and economic reform in Australia, 1983–2013." ''Singapore Economic Review'' 59.04 (2014)
online

Culture, society, race, ethnicity, gender

* Arrow, Michelle. ''Friday on our minds: popular culture in Australia since 1945'' (UNSW Press, 2009).
* 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 (2016): 447-455
online

* Bennett, Bruce et al. ''The Oxford Literary History of Australia'' (1999)
* Bennett, Tony, and David Carter. ''Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs'' (2001
excerpt and text search
* Carey, Hilary. ''Believing in Australia: A Cultural History of Religions'' (1996).
* Collins, Jock, and Jock Collins. ''A shop full of dreams: Ethnic small business in Australia'' (Pluto Press Australia, 1995).

* 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 (2006).

* Fiske, John, Bob Hodge, and Graeme Turner. ''Myths of Oz: reading Australian popular culture'' (Routledge, 2016).

* Harris, Anita. "In a Girlie World: Tweenies in Australia." ''Counterpoints'' 245 (2005): 209-223
online

* Kapferer, Bruce. ''Legends of people, myths of state: violence, intolerance, and political culture in Sri Lanka and Australia'' (Berghahn Books, 2011).
* Kleinert, Sylvia. and Margo Neale. ''The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture'' (2001)
* Moran, Albert. ''Historical Dictionary of Australian Radio and Television'' (2007)

* O'Brien, Patricia. "Remaking Australia's Colonial Culture?: White Australia and its Papuan Frontier 1901–1940." ''Australian Historical Studies'' 40.1 (2009): 96-112.
* Peppard, Judith. "Culture wars in South Australia: the sex education debates." ''Australian Journal of Social Issues'' 43.3 (2008): 499-516.

* Rutland, Suzanne D. ''The Jews in Australia'' (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

* Schneider, Tanja, and Teresa Davis. "Advertising food in Australia: Between antinomies and gastro‐anomy." ''Consumption, Markets and Culture'' 13.1 (2010): 31-4
online

* Skinner, Natalie, and Barbara Pocock. "Work, life, flexibility and workplace culture in Australia: results of the 2008 Australian Work and Life Index (AWALI) Survey." ''Australian Bulletin of Labour'' 36.2 (2010): 133-154.
* Staniforth, Mark. ''Material culture and consumer society: dependent colonies in colonial Australia'' (Springer Science & Business Media, 2012).

* Stratton, Jon. ''Uncertain lives: Culture, race and neoliberalism in Australia'' (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).
* 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'' (2007) pp: 231-36.

* Webby, Elizabeth, ed. ''The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature'' (2006)

Environment and geography

* Bolton, Geoffrey. ''Spoils and Spoilers: Australians Make Their Environment, 1788–1980'' (Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1981).
* Cathcart, Michael. ''The water dreamers: the remarkable history of our dry continent'' (2010
online review

* Doyle, Timothy, and Tsarina Doyle. ''Green power: the environment movement in Australia'' (UNSW Press, 2000).
* Dunlap, Thomas R. ''Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand'' (Studies in Environment and History) (1999)
* Frost, Lionel, and Seamus O'Hanlon. "Urban history and the future of Australian cities." ''Australian Economic History Review'' 49.1 (2009): 1-18
online
* Garden, Donald S., and Mark R. Stoll. ''Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History'' (Nature and Human Societies) (2005)

* Howes, Michael. ''Politics and the Environment: Risk and the Role of Government and Industry'' (Routledge, 2013) compares Britain, USA and Australia.
* Hutton, Drew, and Libby Connors. ''History of the Australian Environment Movement'' (1999
excerpt and text search
* Lines, William J. ''Taming the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia'' (1999)

* Powell, J. M. ''Watering the Garden State: Water, Land and Community in Victoria 1834–1988'' (Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1989).
* Pyne, Stephen J. ''Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia'' (Holt, 1991
excerpt

* Robin, Libby. "Australia in global environmental history" in ''A Companion to Global Environmental History'' Edited by J. R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) pp 182–19
online

* Robin, Libby. ''Defending the Little Desert: The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia'' (Melbourne University Press, 1998).
* Rolls, E. ''They All Ran Wild: The Animals and Plants that Plague Australia'' (Angus and Robertson, 1969).
* Seddon, George. ''Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape'' (Melbourne, Cambridge U Press, 1997
excerpt
* Tranter, Bruce. "Environmental activists and non-active environmentalists in Australia." ''Environmental Politics'' 19.3 (2010): 413-429.
* Tranter, Bruce. "Leadership and change in the Tasmanian environment movement." ''Leadership Quarterly'' 20.5 (2009): 708-72
online
* Williams, Michael. ''The Making of the South Australian Landscape'' (Academic Press , 1974).
* Wright, R. ''The Bureaucrat ’s Domain: Space and the Public Interest in Victoria 1836–1884,'' (Melbourne, Oxford University Press , 1989).

Historiography

* Attwood, Bain, and Fiona Magowan. ''Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand'' (2001
online edition
* Bongiorno, Frank. "'Real Solemn History' and Its Discontents: Australian Political History and the Challenge of Social History," ''Australian Journal of Politics and History'' (2010) 56#1 pp 6
online edition

* Bonnell, Andrew G. and Martin Crotty, "An Australian 'Historikerstreit'? Review Article," ''Australian Journal of Politics & History'' (2004) 50#3 pp 425–433
* Case, Jo. "Who Killed Australian History?" ''In History'' (6 March 2012
online
* Coombes, Annie E. ''Rethinking Settler Colonialism: History and Memory in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa'' (Studies in Imperialism) (2006)
* Davison, Graeme. ''The Use and Abuse of Australian History'' (2000
online edition
* Gare, Deborah. "Britishness in recent Australian historiography." ''Historical Journal'' 43#4 (2000): 1145–1155.
* Hirst, John, and Stuart Macintyre, eds, ''The Oxford Companion to Australian History'' (Melbourne, 1998); many articles have a historiographical component
* McIntyre, Stuart. ''The History Wars'' (2nd ed. 2004) see History wars article
* McIntyre, Stuart, and Julian Thomas, eds, ''The Discovery of Australian History 1890–1939'' (Carlton, Vic., 1995)
* McLean, David. "Australia in the Cold War: A Historiographical Review", ''The International History Review,'' Vol. 23, 2 (June 2001)
* McQueen, Humphrey. ''Gallipoli to Petrov: Arguing with Australian History'' (1984),
* Meaney, Neville. "Britishness and Australian Identity: The Problem of Nationalism in Australian History and Historiography", ''Australian Historical Studies,'' Vol. 32, 116 (April 2001),
* Nugent, Maria. ''Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet'' (2005
online edition
* Waterhouse, Richard. "Locating the New Social History: transnational historiography and Australian local history", ''Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society'' (2009) 95#1 pp. 1–17.

Primary sources

* Kemp, Rod, and Marion Stanton, eds. ''Speaking for Australia: Parliamentary Speeches That Shaped Our Nation'' Allen & Unwin, 200
online edition
* Crowley, Frank, ed. ''Modern Australia in documents, volume 1, 1901–1939'' (1973); ''Modern Australia in Documents, 1939–1970'' (1973) Wren Publishing, Melbourne.

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