Select Publications
Journal articles
2013, 'Review Essay: Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler and Patrick Kupper (editors), Civilizing Nature: National Parks in Global Historical Perspective', ENNZ: Environment and Nature in New Zealand, 8, pp. 49 - 58
,2013, 'To the Halls of Europe: Theodore Roosevelt’s African Jaunt and the Campaign to Save Nature by Killing It', Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology (AJE), 2, pp. 5 - 16
,2012, 'America’s National Parks: The Transnational Creation of National Space in the Progressive Era', Journal of American Studies, 46, pp. 1 - 21
,2012, 'Ian Tyrrell Replies', Journal of American Studies, 46, pp. 45 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875811001460
,2011, 'Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill (eds.), Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), pp. x+373, £72.00, £17.99 pb.', Journal of Latin American Studies, 43, pp. 198 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x10002087
,2011, 'Epic of the Wartime Pacific: Environment and Military Conflict', Journal of Pacific History, 46, pp. 120 - 123
,2011, 'Natives and Exotics', The Journal of Pacific History, 46, pp. 117 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2011.573641
,2009, 'Reflections on the Transnational Turn in United States History: Theory and Practice', Journal of Global History, 3, pp. 453 - 474
,2009, 'Reflections on the transnational turn in United States history: theory and practice', Journal of Global History, 4, pp. 453 - 474, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740022809990167
,2009, 'The Scholarly Odyssey of an Activity Historian: Alan Dawley in Historiography', Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8, pp. 29 - 49
,2008, 'Advertising sin and sickness: The politics of alcohol and tobacco marketing, 1950-1990', American Historical Review, 113, pp. 782 - 785
,2008, 'REVIEW: Advertising sin and sickness: The politics of alcohol and tobacco marketing, 1950-1990', American Historical Review, 113, pp. 782 - 785
,2008, 'The cigarette century: The rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America', American Historical Review, 113, pp. 782 - 785
,2007, 'Comparative and transnational history', Australian Feminist Studies, 22, pp. 49 - 54
,2007, 'Confronting the `E` Word: American Empire and Transnational History', Australasian Journal of American Studies, 26, pp. 41 - 53
,2007, 'Coolies and cane: Race, labor, and sugar in the age of emancipation', Labour History, 93, pp. 246 - 247
,2007, 'Environment, landscape and history - Gardening in Australia', Australian Historical Studies, 38, pp. 339 - 347
,2007, 'How a Continent created a nation', Historical Records of Australian Science, 18, pp. 299 - 301
,2007, 'Public at the Creation: Place, Memory, and Historical Practice in the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1907 - 1950', Journal of American History, 94, pp. 19 - 46
,2006, 'Historians and Publics in the Early Televisual Age: Academics, Film and the Rise of Television in the 1950s and 1960s', The Maryland Historian, 30, pp. 41 - 60
,2005, 'Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs: a response to David Courtwright', The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: an interdisciplinary journal, 20, pp. 129 - 132
,2004, 'Acclimatisation and environmental renovation: Australian perspectives on George Perkins Marsh', Environment and History, 10, pp. 153 - 167, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WPY-4D8N25V-1B7/2/b0e0f0cefe3063436e5d9ae0259576b8
,2004, 'American History in Australia: local problems and global prospects', Australasian Journal of American Studies, 23, pp. 65 - 71
,2004, 'Introduction: Friends and Enemies in the New World Order: perspectives on the American alliance and anti-Americanism', Australasian Journal of American Studies, 23, pp. 34 - 38
,2004, 'Lucas, Margaret Bright', New Dictionary of National Biography, pp. electronic - electronic
,2004, 'Pathways to prohibition: Radicals, moderates, and social movement outcomes', Journal of American History, 91, pp. 1046 - 1047
,2004, 'Somerset [nee Somers-Cocks], Lady Isabella Caroline', New Dictionary of National Biography, pp. electronic - electronic
,2003, 'Insatiable appetite: The United States and the ecological degradationof the tropical world', Diplomatic History, 27, pp. 607 - 610
,2003, 'The Challenge of De-provincializing US History in World War Two', Amerikastudien - American Studies, 48, pp. 41 - 59
,2003, 'The future of American studies in Australia: problems and possibilities', Australasian Journal of American Studies, 22, pp. 97 - 102
,2003, 'The Threat of de-provincializing U.S. history in World War Two: Allan Nevins and the New York Times to the rescue', Amerikastudien - American Studies, 48, pp. 41 - 59
,2003, 'Tropical Footprints: joining environmental and United States diplomatic history - Review of R.P. Tucker, Insatiable appetite: the United States and the ecological degradation of the tropical world', Diplomatic History, 27, pp. 607 - 610
,2002, 'Rethinking American empire in light of the events of September 11', Australasian Journal of American Studies, 21, pp. 76 - 82
,2001, 'New comparisons, international works: transnational and comparative perspectives', Australian Feminist Studies, 16, pp. 355 - 361
,2000, 'Review of C. Murdock, Domesticating drink, C. Mattingly, Well-tempered women, and J. Zimmerman: Distilling democracy', Journal of American History, pp. 248 - 250
,2000, 'The great historical Jeremiad: The problem of specialization in American historiography', History Teacher, pp. 321 - 343
,2000, 'The limits of persuasion: Advertising, gender and the culture of Australian smoking', Australian Historical Studies, 114, pp. 27 - 47
,1999, 'Making nations/making states: American historians in the context of empire', Journal of American History, pp. 1015 - 1044
,1998, 'Before the Surgeon-General`s report: public discourse in Australia over tobacco addiction to 1964', Australian Journal of Politics and History, pp. 177 - 190
,1998, 'Contract employment in Australian universities: the new award and implications for history', Organization of American historians' newsletter, pp. 1 - 14
,1998, 'The anti-tobacco reform and the temperance movement in Australia: connections and differences', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, pp. 10 - 25
,1997, 'Imagining America and its Landscapes: New Views from European American Studies', Australasian Journal of American Studies, 16, pp. 71 - 82
,1997, 'Peripheral Visions: Californian-Australian Environment Contacts, c1850`s-1910', Journal of World History, pp. 275 - 302
,1997, 'The US Prohibition `Experiment`: Myths, History and Implications', Addiction, pp. 1405 - 1409
,1995, 'Specialisation and history`s audiences: a conversation with David Thelen', Australasian Journal of American Studies, 14, pp. 55 - 68
,1992, 'ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE 1920S - THE STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY - MCKERCHER,BJC', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 38, pp. 297 - 298, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1992JK60200020&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1992, 'NEW ELITES IN OLD STATES - IDEOLOGIES IN THE ANGLO-AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES - NEVITTE,N, GIBBINS,R', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 38, pp. 307 - 308, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1992JK60200032&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1982, 'DRINK AND TEMPERANCE IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH - AN OVERVIEW AND INTERPRETATION', JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY, 48, pp. 485 - 510, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2207850
,1982, 'WOMEN AND TEMPERANCE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA, 1830-1860', CIVIL WAR HISTORY, 28, pp. 128 - 152, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1982NX20500002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1977, 'MIND OF AMERICA, 1820-1860 - WELTER,R', HISTORICAL STUDIES, 17, pp. 541 - 542, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1977EK46600018&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
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