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. Bambrick, Susan ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia (1994) Basset, Jan. The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of Australian History (1998) online at OUP 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

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) 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 521–718 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). Day, David. Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia (2001); Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding (1988). 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) Schreuder, Deryck, and Stuart Ward, eds. Australia's Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series) (2008) 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.

Crowley; F. K. Australia's Western Third: A History of Western Australia from the First Settlements to Modern Times (1960) online at OUP 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) Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding (1988). , 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) Macintyre, Stuart. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 4: 1901–42, the Succeeding Age (1993) Macintyre, Stuart. A Concise History of Australia (2004) 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) 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) Evans, Mark et al. eds. From Turnbull to Morrison: Understanding the Trust Divide (2019) 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, 2004) 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) 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) Harper, Norman. A Great and Powerful Friend: A Study of Australian American Relations Between 1900-1975 (U of Queensland Press, 1987) 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) 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) 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 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) 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), 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).