Nick Fischer’s Spider Web: The Birth of American Anticommunism (University of Illinois Press) details how anticommunist myths and propaganda influenced mainstream politics in America, and how the right’s efforts paved
EXTENDED submission deadline: Friday 24 June 2016 2016 Australasian Irish Studies Conference 29 November – 1 December 2016, Flinders University, Adelaide Under the umbrella of Change the conference organisers envisage
Jon Piccini’s new book, Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s (Palgrave Macmillan) broadens our understanding of Australian protest and reform movements by situating them within a properly global – and
Submission deadline: Thursday 31 March 2016 Vienna, 8–9 December 2016 Organizers: Dr Philippa Hetherington (UCL); Professor Peter Becker (Vienna); Professor Glenda Sluga (Sydney);Dr Natasha Wheatley (Sydney). Co-organized with Institute for Austrian
James Walter, with Paul Strangio and Paul T’Hart, have recently published Settling the Office: The Australian Prime Ministership from Federation to Reconstruction (Melbourne University Press). It chronicles the development of
Samuel Furphy has edited The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins: Australian Government Administration in the Post-War Reconstruction Era (ANU Press). Originally a witty epithet applied to a
Honest History’s e-newsletter has gone out to subscribers and is also on the Honest History website. This month brings the latest research from Ankara on the elusive ‘Ataturk words’ of
Frank Bongiorno’s The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (Black Inc.) brings to life the most controversial decade in Australian history, with high-flying entrepreneurs booming and busting, torrid debates over
Joan Beaumont (with Lachlan Grant and Aaron Pegram) have edited Beyond Surrender: Australian Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century (Melbourne University Publishing) which presents for the first time the
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