History: Recent submissions
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Maintaining the 'Australian Way of Life': President Johnson's 1966 visit and its implications for national culture.
Published 2013-01-01President Lyndon Johnson’s visit to Australia in October 1966 was the apogee of the Australian-American political alliance and coincided with the peak of Australian public support for the American war in Vietnam. It was ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Selfish, Timid, Tories: Boston in the American Revolutionary War, 1776- 1777.
Published 2013-01-01Historians of the American Revolution have celebrated Boston’s role in early resistance to Britain, while neglecting its post-1776 history. After the British evacuation, pre-existing social and economic problems re-emerged ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Convict Geographies of Early Colonial Sydney
Published 2013-01-01The convict’s environmental, spatial and administrative knowledge of early colonial Sydney was far richer than is generally acknowledged. Not only were the convicts thinking and feeling individuals transported to a foreign ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Anchor of Life: Triumphs and crises in the Australian wheat- growing, flour milling and bread industries from 1880- 1939.
Published 2013-01-01The scope of this thesis is Australia from the late nineteenth century to 1939, viewed through the lens of three interrelated industries – wheat-growing, flour-milling and bread-baking. Authoritative literature on wheat-growing ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Destroying Sodom in the South Pacific: How the terror of sodomy was invoked to end convict transportation to New South Wales c.1837.
Published 2013-01-01While the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 is a mainstream theme in Australian history, less is known about the end of convict transportation. Even less is known about the slander of endemic sodomy that was contained in ...Open AccessThesis, Honours