Bibliography of Australian history
This is a highly selective guide to recent scholarly studies 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)
- Davison, Graeme, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian History (2001) online at many academic libraries; also 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
- Lewis, Wendy, Simon Balderstone and John Bowan (2006). Events That Shaped Australia. New Holland. ISBN 9781741104929.
- O'Shane, Pat et al. Australia: The Complete Encyclopedia (2001)
- Serle. Percival, ed. Dictionary of Australian Biography (1949)online edition
- Shaw, John, ed. Collins Australian Encyclopedia (1984)
- Taylor, Peter. The Atlas of Australian History (1991)
Surveys
- Atkinson, Alan. The Europeans in Australia: A History. Vol. 2: Democracy. (2005). 440 pp.
- 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 ISBN 0-521-60101-0
- 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)
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.
- 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
- Crowley; F. K. Australia's Western Third: A History of Western Australia from the First Settlements to Modern Times 1960 online edition
- Davison, Graeme, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian History (2001) onloine at OUP also 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)
- Davison, Graeme, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian History, (2001) excerpt and text search
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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, 2004 online edition
Diplomacy and military
- 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)
- 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. Issn: 0707-5332
- 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
- Wright, Christine. Wellington's Men in Australia: Peninsular War Veterans and the Making of Empire c.1820-40 (2011)
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. 399-451 in JSTOR, history to 1907
- 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 (Studies in Imperialism) (2011)
Culture
- 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)
- Kleinert, Sylvia. and Margo Neale. The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture (2001)
- Moran, Albert. Historical Dictionary of Australian Radio and Television (2007)
- Webby, Elizabeth, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2006)
Environment and geography
- 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)
- Garden, Donald S., and Mark R. Stoll. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History (Nature and Human Societies) (2005)
- 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)
Historiography
- Attwood, Bain, and Fiona Magowan. Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand (2001) online edition
- 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
- McIntyre, Stuart. The History Wars (2nd ed. 2004), historiography
- 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
Primary sources
- Kemp, Rod, and Marion Stanton, eds. Speaking for Australia: Parliamentary Speeches That Shaped Our Nation Allen & Unwin, 2004 online edition
- Crowley, Frank, ed. Modern Australia in Documents, 1939-1970 (1973) Wren Publishing, Melbourne. ISBN 085885033X