John A. Tully

John A. Tully is an Australian historian and novelist.

John A. Tully is an Honorary Professor in the College of Arts at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia.^[1] He is the author of nine published books and a number of articles, book reviews and short stories. He is currently working on a people's history of the American city of Akron, tentatively entitled Struggle City USA: A People's History of Akron, Ohio. Tully lives in the inner western Melbourne suburb of Yarraville. Tully is a socialist and was an active trade unionist during the many years he worked as a rigger in construction and heavy industry before gaining his PhD and becoming an academic. He was born on Tyneside in northern England in 1947 and is descended from English and Irish forebears.

Bibliography

History

• Cambodia Under the Tricolour: King Sisowath and the 'Mission Civilisatrice', 1904-1927, (Clayton, Victoria: Monash Asia Institute, 1999)
• France on the Mekong: A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953, (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2002)
• A Short History of Cambodia: From Empire to Survival, (Sydney and Chiang Mai: Allen & Unwin and Silkworm, 2006)
• The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2011)
• Silvertown: The lost story of a strike that shook London and helped launch the modern labor movement (New York and London: Monthly Review Press and Lawrence & Wishart,2014)
• Stealing the Cuyahoga: settlement and dispossession in Summit County, Ohio, (New York: Monthly Review Press, forthcoming)

Novels

• Death Is the Cool Night, (Melbourne: Papyrus Publishing, 1999)
• Dark Clouds On the Mountain, (Melbourne: Hybrid Publishers, 2010)
• Robbed of Every Blessing (Melbourne: Hybrid Publishers, 2015)

References