Select Publications
Book Chapters
'Isolation and exclusion in the modern world', in Isolation, Taylor & Francis, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203405222_chapter_1
,Edited Books
Bashford A; Kern E; Bobbette A, (eds.), 2023, New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo205315847.html
Bashford A; Armitage D; Sivasundaram S, (eds.), 2017, Oceanic Histories, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Bashford A, (ed.), 2016, Quarantine: Local and Global Histories, Palgrave, Basingstoke, https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/quarantine-alison-bashford/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137524454
Bashford A; Armitage D, (ed.), 2014, Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People, Palgrave Macmillan
Bashford A; Macintyre S, (ed.), 2011, The Cambridge history of Australia, Cambridge University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781107445758
Bashford A; Levine P, (ed.), 2010, The Oxford Handbook of The History of Eugenics, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195373141.001.0001
Bashford A, (ed.), 2006, Medicine at the border: Disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230288904
Journal articles
2024, 'Lionel Penrose and the Geometry of the Hand', The Lancet, 403, pp. 1978 - 1979
,2024, 'Smallpox Geographies: vaccination, borders and Indigenous peoples in Australia’s coastal north', Medical History, 68, pp. 22 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2023.39
,2023, 'Regulating Movement in Pandemic Times', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 20, pp. 633 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11673-023-10292-1
,2023, 'The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics', Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 263, pp. 125 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtad011
,2023, 'Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus by Charlotte Sussman', Eighteenth-Century Studies, 56, pp. 488 - 490, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0038
,2022, 'Malthus and gender', Australian Economic History Review, 62, pp. 198 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12250
,2022, 'Lines of Hygiene: Pandemic Border Control in Australia, 1919', Australian Historical Studies, 53, pp. 284 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2021.2005644
,2021, 'World History and the Tasman Sea', American Historical Review, 126, pp. 922 - 948, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab356
,2021, 'The family of man: Cosmopolitanism and the huxleys, 1850–1950', Humanity, 12, pp. 87 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hum.2021.0006
,2021, 'The Family of Man: Cosmopolitanism and the Huxleys, 1850-1950', Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 12, pp. 359 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hum.2015.0021
,2021, 'Towards a modern history of Gondwanaland', Journal of the British Academy, 9s6, pp. 5 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s6.005
,2020, 'Malthus and China', Historical Journal, 63, pp. 63 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X1900013X
,2020, 'Malthusian Moments: Introduction', Historical Journal, 63, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000098
,2020, 'Beyond Quarantine Critique', Somatosphere, http://somatosphere.net/forumpost/beyond-quarantine-critique/
,2019, 'On nations and states: a reflection on ‘Thinking the Empire Whole’', History Australia, 16, pp. 638 - 641, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2019.1670691
,2018, 'Roundtable: The anthropocene in British History', Journal of British Studies, 57, pp. 568 - 596, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2018.79
,2018, 'Deep Genetics: Universal History and the Species', History and Theory, 57, pp. 313 - 322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hith.12065
,2018, 'Oceanic Histories: A Roundtable', Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cch.2018.0014
,2017, 'Terraqueous histories', Historical Journal, 60, pp. 253 - 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X16000431
,2016, 'Geographies of commemoration: Angel Island, San Francisco and North Head, Sydney', Journal of Historical Geography, 52, pp. 16 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2015.12.003
,2015, 'Bioscapes: Gendering the global history of medicine', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 89, pp. 690 - 695, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2015.0123
,2015, 'Rewriting Quarantine: Pacific History at Australia's Edge', Australian Historical Studies, 46, pp. 392 - 409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2015.1071860
,2014, 'TEN CITIES THAT MADE AN EMPIRE', TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, pp. 22 - 23, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000339776800032&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2014, 'Immigration restriction: Rethinking period and place from settler colonies to postcolonial nations', Journal of Global History, 9, pp. 26 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S174002281300048X
,2014, 'Global Population', , http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/bash14766
,2014, 'Made to do business in', TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, pp. 22 - 23
,2014, 'The Right to Asylum: Britain’s 1905 Aliens Act and the Evolution of Refugee Law', Law and History Review, 32, pp. 309 - 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S07382480140000
,2013, 'The anthropocene is modern history: Reflections on climate and australian deep time', Australian Historical Studies, 44, pp. 341 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2013.817454
,2012, 'The Colonial History of the 1905 Aliens Act', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40, pp. 409 - 437, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2012.712380
,2012, 'Malthus and colonial history', Journal of Australian Studies, 36, pp. 99 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2011.649487
,2012, 'Anticolonial climates: Physiology, ecology, and global population, 1920s-1950s', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 86, pp. 596 - 626, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2012.0075
,2012, 'Introduction: Modern airs, waters, and places', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 86, pp. 495 - 514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2012.0084
,2011, 'Book notice: Ed Cohen: A body worth defending: Immunity, biopolitics, and the apotheosis of the modern body.', Metascience, 21, pp. 501 - 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9590-9
,2010, 'Living with tuberculosis: the prehistory of HIV/AIDS.', Lancet, 375, pp. 1774 - 1775, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60794-5
,2008, 'Population, geopolitics, and international organizations in the mid twentieth century', Journal of World History, 19, pp. 327 - 347, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40542618
,2008, 'World population and Australian land: Demography and sovereignty in the twentieth century (vol 38, pg 130, 2007)', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 39, pp. 2 - 2, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000256845200002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2008, 'World population, world health and security: 20th century trends', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62, pp. 187 - 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2006.055608
,2007, 'Thinking historically about public health', Medical Humanities, 33, pp. 87 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jmh.2006.000251
,2007, 'World population and Australian land: Demography and sovereignty in the twentieth century', Australian Historical Studies, 38, pp. 211 - 227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314610708601243
,2007, 'Nation, empire, globe: The spaces of population debate in the interwar years', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 49, pp. 170 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0010417507000448
,2006, 'Tuberculosis, migration, and medical examination: Lessons from history', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60, pp. 282 - 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech.2005.038604
,2006, 'Global biopolitics and the history of world health', History of the Human Sciences, 19, pp. 67 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695106062148
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