The idea that humankind constituted a unity, albeit at different stages of'development', was in
the 19th century challenged with a new way of thinking. The'savagery'of certain races was …

Much has been written about the White Australia Policy, but very little has been written about
it from a Chinese perspective. Big White Lie shifts our understanding of the White Australia …

Winner of the 2009 Tasmania Book Prize Winner of the 2008 Colin Roderick Award Almost
half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a …

Memories of Empire is a trilogy which explores the complex, subterranean political currents
which emerged in English society during the years of postwar decolonization. Bill Schwarz …

So, in one sense, the question in my title can be roundly answered in the negative. But the
denial is rather less convincing when we pause on the phrase 'the history of masculinity' …

Reframing the Past traces what historians have written about film and television from 1898
until the early 2000s. Mia Treacey argues that historical engagement with film and television …

In the second half of December 1974 a number of incidents occurred in the township of
Laverton involving Aborigines and police. By the end of December additional police had …

Australian multiculturalism has become central to the nation's political landscape, yet
historians have rarely considered the impact of government policies on migrants' pre …

Labour and economics are traditional strengths of Australian history, though in recent
decades cultural history has instead dominated historical practice. This article discusses the …

In their 2010 study drawing on 500 empirical philanthropy studies, Bekkers and Wiepking
identified eight consistently significant giving mechanisms. The pilot study reported here …