A Woollacott
Biographic Data
| ID | 10383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Woollacott |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Woollacott |
| SIGNATURE | WOOLLACOTT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6156-8183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Imperial Commonwealth
Selling Britishness
Selling Britishness: Commodity Culture, the Dominions and Empire." Australian Historical Studies, 54(2), pp. 375–376
New Angles on Whiteness and the Making of the Modern World
These four new books on whiteness show its continuing vitality as a scholarly field, while broadening its purview to encompass North America, Africa, India and Australia from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Thematically they draw together the Enlightenment, intellectual and affective history, gender, economics, the field of international relations, labour and immigration. All will help us to combat white supremacy
And the Fight for Democracy in Australia
The historiographical debate about the significance of 1968 — the year of transnational political protests and strikes — for Australia has centred on the questions of how derivative and imitative protests in Australia were, and whether 1968 was a singular year here in the longer period of activism. This article presents a fresh angle on the debate by looking at the vital role of students in turning the Dunstan Labor government's electoral loss (i…
From the President
Peer-reviewed
The making of a reformer
Don Dunstan, Premier of South Australia 1967–68 and 1970–79, was one of the most influential political figures of twentieth century Australia. Dunstan blazed a trail of nationally significant refor
From the President
From the President
Settler Family Networks, Imperial Connections
Settlers and residents in the Australian colonies had personal connections to and knowledge of many places around a rapidly globalizing world. Voyages to and from Australia involved calling at one or more ports, in regions ranging from Africa, to the Indian Ocean, South and South East Asia, and South America. Many settlers had served in the British Army in India and elsewhere; sick or long-term officials, merchants, soldiers, and pensioners from …
Systematic Colonization
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862) was one of the most important advocates and theorists of settler colonialism during its nineteenth-century ascendancy. Most discussion of Wakefield has centred on his scheme for the sale of colonial waste lands to fund the emigration of poor British labourers, but Wakefield and his followers’ enthusiasm to include Indian, Chinese, and Pacific Island labourers in their visions of systematic colonization has been…
Settler Men as Masters of Labour
Settlers in the Australian colonies from the 1820s to the 1860s had access to an extraordinary range of unfree and undercompensated labourers, including convicts, unpaid Aborigines, and indentured Chinese, Indian, Pacific Islander, and European labourers. From the 1820s to the 1840s convicts formed the great majority of servants and labourers employed by settlers and constituted the largest part of the colonial population. The status of master of…
Settler Society in the Australian Colonies
The 1820s to the 1860s was a foundational period in Australian history, arguably at least as important as federation. Convict transportation provided the labour on which the first settlements depended before it was brought to a staggered end, first in New South Wales in 1840 and last in Western Australia in 1868. The numbers of free settlers rose dramatically, surging from the 1820s and again during the 1850s gold rushes. The convict system incre…
From the President
From the President
But if Hal Colebatch doubts the industriousness as well as the fair-mindedness of academic historians, we have a rich new report to consult. In October, Mapping the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia was released by the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Graeme Turner and Kylie Brass wrote the report, with significant involvement by several Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia including historians Joy Damou…
A Radical's Career
Henry Samuel Chapman (1803-1881) was one of the leading advocates of Responsible Government in the white-settler colonies. In tracing the biography and political opinions of one of its main proponents, we can trace roots of Responsible Government in 1830s-40s British radicalism, and see how its principles evolved in specific settler-colonial contexts, as well as being carried and adapted from Canada, to New Zealand and the Australian colonies. Ch…
From the President
Peer-reviewed
Female Performance Practice on theFin-de-SièclePopular Stages of London and Paris
CATHERINE HINDSON Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007 Pp. ix + 227. £50.00. ISBN 978 0 7190 7485 1 JAYNA BROWN Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008 Pp. xii + 339. £13.99. ISBN 978 0 82
Imperial White
Reviewed by: Imperial White: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire Angela Woollacott Imperial White: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire. By Radhika Mohanram. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007) Despite the efflorescence of critically-engaged work in British imperial history (along with comparable work on other empires), there has been little cross-fertilization between postcolonial studies and whiteness studies within it. Perh…
Frontier Violence and Settler Manhood
In the Australian colonies — as in Canada and New Zealand — understandings of manliness forged on the frontiers of settlement were woven into political manhood, and thus the quest for colonial self-government. The full meanings of racial conquest and the frontier for Australian definitions of masculinity are a rich topic still to be properly understood. There is a line of argument in recent work on nineteenth-century Britain that men became less …
Transnational Ties
Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars—historians, literary critics, and museologists—trace the flow of people that helped shape Australia’s distinctive character and the flow of ideas that connected Australians to a global community of thought. It shows how biography, and the st…
Books
This book makes me wonder why Australian \nhistorians have so readily agreed to \na history that starts at 1788. Perhaps the \nFirst Fleet's entertaining publishing enterprises \nhave been too seductive. Whereas \nhistorians may doubt that it is possible \nto write history without archival word \nmiddens, archaeologists doubt that one \ncan write without material discoveries. \nSources and methodological expertise \nhave created a major chasm bet…
Rose Quong becomes Chinese
The story of Rose Quong (1879–1972) reveals how an Australian learned to use the pervasive Orientalism of the early twentieth century to her own ends. Quong claimed an essential ability to interpret Chinese culture, forging a career out of lecturing and writing on Chinese literature and traditions, and performing her own Chineseness. She juggled her mixed Australian, British and Chinese heritage in both London and New York, showing the plasticity…
Masculinities, Imperial Adventuring and War
Women and Unfree Labour in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Narratives of Interracial Sexual Assault and Crises of Imperial Rule
Gender and Empire
Khaki Fever' and its Control
In late 1914 an epidemic of khaki fever broke out across Britain. Young women, it seemed, were so attracted to men in military uniform that they behaved in immodest and even dangerous ways. The excitement which reportedly gripped young women at the sight of troops in towns, cities and near army camps was identified as sexual, and named 'khaki fever'. The discourse on khaki fever conducted by military and police authorities, feminists, other refor…
On Her Their Lives Depend
Introduction
Inventing Commonwealth and Pan‐Pacific Feminisms
Peer-reviewed
The fragmentary subject
Frontier Violence and Settler Manhood
In the Australian colonies — as in Canada and New Zealand — understandings of manliness forged on the frontiers of settlement were woven into political manhood, and thus the quest for colonial self-government. The full meanings of racial conquest and the frontier for Australian definitions of masculinity are a rich topic still to be properly understood. There is a line of argument in recent work on nineteenth-century Britain that men became less …
Women Writing History
Mary Spongberg. Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xii + 308 pp. ISBN 0-333-72667-7 (cl); ISBN 0-333-72668-5 (pb). Antoinette Burton. Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 202 pp. ISBN 0-195-14424-4 (cl); ISBN 0-19-514425-2 (pb). As befits a field with the maturity of more than thirty years …
Women munitions makers, war and citizenship
In this century women in many nations have moved from being completely excluded from the armed forces (apart from a few military nursing units) to being included, if not equally, in the military. While technical issues remain about women's exact participation in combat, women have essentially gone from noncombatants to warriors. For many who believed that women were more inclined than men toward pacifism, and that this would help secure the peace…
Maternalism, professionalism and industrial welfare supervisors in World War I Britain
During World War I industrial welfare work was firmly established as an occupation, especially in munitions factories under the Ministry of Munitions. This article explores the significance of the fact that the majority of the welfare supervisors employed during the war were women. Welfare supervisors are one example of the ways in which middle-class women grasped career opportunities offered by the war. Much of their work epitomized contemporary…
Beatrice and Sidney Webb
Back to Home and Duty
Khaki Fever' and its Control
In late 1914 an epidemic of khaki fever broke out across Britain. Young women, it seemed, were so attracted to men in military uniform that they behaved in immodest and even dangerous ways. The excitement which reportedly gripped young women at the sight of troops in towns, cities and near army camps was identified as sexual, and named 'khaki fever'. The discourse on khaki fever conducted by military and police authorities, feminists, other refor…
Maternalism, professionalism and industrial welfare supervisors in World War I Britain
During World War I industrial welfare work was firmly established as an occupation, especially in munitions factories under the Ministry of Munitions. This article explores the significance of the fact that the majority of the welfare supervisors employed during the war were women. Welfare supervisors are one example of the ways in which middle-class women grasped career opportunities offered by the war. Much of their work epitomized contemporary…
Gendering War Talk
On Her Their Lives Depend
Women munitions makers, war and citizenship
In this century women in many nations have moved from being completely excluded from the armed forces (apart from a few military nursing units) to being included, if not equally, in the military. While technical issues remain about women's exact participation in combat, women have essentially gone from noncombatants to warriors. For many who believed that women were more inclined than men toward pacifism, and that this would help secure the peace…
Introduction
Inventing Commonwealth and Pan‐Pacific Feminisms
Peer-reviewed
The fragmentary subject
The Colonial Flaneuse
To Try Her Fortune in London
This book is the first study to consider white colonials as part of the colonial presence at the heart of the empire. Between 1870 and 1940 tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even more Australian women than men made the pilgrimage home, seeking opportunities and possibilities beyond those available to them in Australian co…
British Imperialism (review)
Women Writing History
Mary Spongberg. Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xii + 308 pp. ISBN 0-333-72667-7 (cl); ISBN 0-333-72668-5 (pb). Antoinette Burton. Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 202 pp. ISBN 0-195-14424-4 (cl); ISBN 0-19-514425-2 (pb). As befits a field with the maturity of more than thirty years …
Masculinities, Imperial Adventuring and War
Women and Unfree Labour in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Narratives of Interracial Sexual Assault and Crises of Imperial Rule
Gender and Empire
Women and Gender in Anti-Colonial and Nationalist Movements
Gender and Empire in the Metropole
Conclusion
Gender and Everyday Life under Colonial Regimes
Gender and Empire
Books
This book makes me wonder why Australian \nhistorians have so readily agreed to \na history that starts at 1788. Perhaps the \nFirst Fleet's entertaining publishing enterprises \nhave been too seductive. Whereas \nhistorians may doubt that it is possible \nto write history without archival word \nmiddens, archaeologists doubt that one \ncan write without material discoveries. \nSources and methodological expertise \nhave created a major chasm bet…
Rose Quong becomes Chinese
The story of Rose Quong (1879–1972) reveals how an Australian learned to use the pervasive Orientalism of the early twentieth century to her own ends. Quong claimed an essential ability to interpret Chinese culture, forging a career out of lecturing and writing on Chinese literature and traditions, and performing her own Chineseness. She juggled her mixed Australian, British and Chinese heritage in both London and New York, showing the plasticity…
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