Stephen Garton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Garton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Garton |
| SIGNATURE | GARTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7867-449X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 42 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Judith A. Allen (1955–2024)
Return Fantasies
This article explores male popular culture in Australia in the mid‐1940s, particularly men's magazines of the period, to illuminate aspects of the psycho‐sexual dimensions of Australian veterans returning to civil society. The sexual landscape of Australian society had undergone considerable transformation, especially through an increasing sexualisation of popular culture in the 1920s and 1930s. This provided a context for considerable sexual anx…
A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Leicester. Between 1415, when the Portuguese first used convicts for colonization purposes in the North African enclave of Ceuta, to the 1960s and the dissolution of Stalin’s gulags, global powers including the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Russians, Chinese and Japanese tra…
Jill Roe (1940–2017)
The Last Battle
The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916–1939." Australian Historical Studies, 48(3), pp. 456–457
Insanity, Identity and Empire
The Commonwealth of Australia’s 1901 Immigration Restriction Act (the famous ‘white Australia policy’) is often seen as integral to the emerging ethos of Australian nationalism. A rich historiograp
Demobilization and Empire
This article analyses the demobilization of Australian veterans after the First World War, placing this process in the broader transnational context of Britain’s settler society dominions more generally. It explores the public challenges posed by demobilization in Australia, and by way of comparison, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, and how each of these dominions negotiated reintegration of veterans through the deployment of cultural and po…
Histories of Sexuality
A history of sexuality runs the risk of confirming popular fears that academics are capable of ruining even the most simple of pleasures. This book, however, is written in the hope that histories of sexuality (although not necessarily this one) can enlighten and, occasionally, even delight. At their best such histories offer a means of investigating the clash of instinct and culture — how seemingly timeless and natural behaviours shape and are in…
Harlem in Black and White
In the 1920s, as Harlem emerged as the largest black city in the world, a significant white presence remained in the neighborhood. Whites not only frequented nightlife, they owned and operated the vast majority of Harlem’s businesses, policed its streets, staffed its schools and hospital, drove its public transport and most of the vehicles traveling its streets, delivered goods, collected rent and insurance payments, and patronized sporting event…
Disorderly Houses
“W h i t e o n l o o k e r s . . . m u s t b e made to remember that Harlem is not merely exotic, it is human,” W. e. B. Du Bois wrote in the National Association for Coloured People’s magazine the Crisis in 1927. “It is not a spectacle and an entertainment, it is life; it is not chiefly cabarets, it is chiefly home.” In admonishing whites, Du Bois was assuming that homes presented a picture of black Americans different from that of public perfor…
Playing the Numbers
The phrase “Harlem in the 1920s” evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. Yet the most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of “numbers.” Thousands of wagers, usually of a dime or less, would be placed on a daily number derived from U.S. bank statistics. The rewards of “hitting the number,” a 600-to-1 payoff, tempted the ordinary me…
This Harlem Life
This article uses Probation Department files to reconstruct the lives of five ordinary residents of Harlem. It highlights what that black metropolis offered those outside the political and cultural elite, who have dominated historical scholarship, showing how ordinary blacks negotiated the challenges of life in northern neighborhoods, and drew on institutions and organizations, to establish and sustain new lives. We offer the kind of individualiz…
Criminal Propensities
Journal Article Criminal Propensities: Psychiatry, Classification and Imprisonment in New York State 1916–1940 Get access Stephen Garton Stephen Garton * *Department of History, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 23, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 79–97, https://doi.org/10.10…
The History Council of NSW’s Annual History Citation
The History Council of NSW’s Annual History Citation: 2007 – Brian Hinton Fletcher." History Australia, 5(1), pp. 27.1–27.2
Manhandled
Fit Only for the Scrap Heap’
This paper examines the expert and popular discourses that sought to construct and disseminate the idea that Australia faced a masculinity crisis with the return of servicemen at the end of the Second World War. It explores how these discourses proposed a process of remasculinisation to ensure the successful reintegration of returning servicemen. These discourses were directed primarily at wives, mothers and fiancées, who were seen to bear the re…
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Books
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. By Philip Temple. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. 584. NZ$69.95 cloth. The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. Edited by Brad Patterson. Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002. Pp. xiv + 212. NZ$34.95 paper. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History. Edited by Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles. Dunedin: University of Otago Press,…
Australia's Heart of Darkness
Managing Mercy
Journal Article Managing Mercy: African Americans, Parole and Paternalism in the Georgia Prison System 1919–1945 Get access Stephen Garton Stephen Garton Department of History, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Spring 2003, Pages 675–699, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0049 Published: 01 March 2003
Changi as television
The scales of suffering
This article examines an extensive set of mourning diaries by a prominent Victorian doctor and social reformer, written after the death of his wife during childbirth. Through an analysis of the complex grieving performances in these texts, the article questions some of the prevailing representations of Victorian masculinity which argue that the late nineteenth century was a period of masculine 'flight from domesticity'. This article argues that t…
Contesting Enslavement
Tracks the troubled relationships between Sybylla Melwyn and the men in My Brilliant Career, arguing that 'there is something more to male-female relations in My Brilliant Career than genre, literary tradition and autobiography. My Brilliant Career is also a savage political indictment of heterosexual relations in Australian colonial society, and a remarkably intriguing one, especially given her age and social and political context'. The essay ai…
Books
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000. By Anna Haebich. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Pp. 726. $35.00 paper. My Dark Brother. The Story of the Wins, a Russian‐Aboriginal Family. By Elena Govor. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 385. $34.95 cloth. Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. By Peter Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 248. $29.95 …
Books
The Country of Lost Children: An. Australian Anxiety. By Peter Pierce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 211. $24.95 paper. life over Death: Tasmanians and Tuberculosis. By Michael Roe. Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Hobart, 1999. Pp. 234. $22.00 paper. The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia. By Joy Damousi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x + 212. $29.95 paper…
Sound minds and healthy bodies
(1994). Sound minds and healthy bodies: Re‐considering eugenics in Australia, 1914–1940. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 26, No. 103, pp. 163-181
War and masculinity in twentieth century Australia
(1998). War and masculinity in twentieth century Australia. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 22, Australian masculinities, pp. 86-95
Criminal Propensities
Journal Article Criminal Propensities: Psychiatry, Classification and Imprisonment in New York State 1916–1940 Get access Stephen Garton Stephen Garton * *Department of History, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 23, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 79–97, https://doi.org/10.10…
The scales of suffering
This article examines an extensive set of mourning diaries by a prominent Victorian doctor and social reformer, written after the death of his wife during childbirth. Through an analysis of the complex grieving performances in these texts, the article questions some of the prevailing representations of Victorian masculinity which argue that the late nineteenth century was a period of masculine 'flight from domesticity'. This article argues that t…
Once a Drunkard Always a Drunkard
The drink problem loomed large in the minds of nineteenth century Australian philanthropists, clergy and social reformers. At its high points, in the 1830s and 1840s and again between 1880 and the First World War, the temperance movement was one of the largest social reform movements in Australia. Total abstinence was the guiding principle of the nineteenth century temperance movement but from the 1880s temperance advocates also developed more so…
Changi as television
Contesting Enslavement
Tracks the troubled relationships between Sybylla Melwyn and the men in My Brilliant Career, arguing that 'there is something more to male-female relations in My Brilliant Career than genre, literary tradition and autobiography. My Brilliant Career is also a savage political indictment of heterosexual relations in Australian colonial society, and a remarkably intriguing one, especially given her age and social and political context'. The essay ai…
Disorderly Houses
“W h i t e o n l o o k e r s . . . m u s t b e made to remember that Harlem is not merely exotic, it is human,” W. e. B. Du Bois wrote in the National Association for Coloured People’s magazine the Crisis in 1927. “It is not a spectacle and an entertainment, it is life; it is not chiefly cabarets, it is chiefly home.” In admonishing whites, Du Bois was assuming that homes presented a picture of black Americans different from that of public perfor…
Managing Mercy
Journal Article Managing Mercy: African Americans, Parole and Paternalism in the Georgia Prison System 1919–1945 Get access Stephen Garton Stephen Garton Department of History, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Spring 2003, Pages 675–699, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0049 Published: 01 March 2003
The Work of Policing
Queensland has been seen as not only the heartland of labour but also of cultural uniformity and an 'authoritarianism, uninhibited by a middle-class liberal tradition'.1 This was especially so in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when business interests dominated the Queensland parliament, particularly during the Premierships of Thomas Mcllwraith (1879-83,1888,1893) and Robert Philp (1899-1903,1907-08).2 One consequence of this au…
Demobilization and Empire
This article analyses the demobilization of Australian veterans after the First World War, placing this process in the broader transnational context of Britain’s settler society dominions more generally. It explores the public challenges posed by demobilization in Australia, and by way of comparison, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, and how each of these dominions negotiated reintegration of veterans through the deployment of cultural and po…
This Harlem Life
This article uses Probation Department files to reconstruct the lives of five ordinary residents of Harlem. It highlights what that black metropolis offered those outside the political and cultural elite, who have dominated historical scholarship, showing how ordinary blacks negotiated the challenges of life in northern neighborhoods, and drew on institutions and organizations, to establish and sustain new lives. We offer the kind of individualiz…
Fit Only for the Scrap Heap’
This paper examines the expert and popular discourses that sought to construct and disseminate the idea that Australia faced a masculinity crisis with the return of servicemen at the end of the Second World War. It explores how these discourses proposed a process of remasculinisation to ensure the successful reintegration of returning servicemen. These discourses were directed primarily at wives, mothers and fiancées, who were seen to bear the re…
Workers' Welfare
This article investigates the historical dimensions of the labour movement's relationship to the welfare state in Australia and Canada during the 20th century. It assesses existing class and party politics theories of this relationship and by proposing particular historical accounts of the welfare state in a comparative context, it seeks to move beyond the limitations of these theories. The article argues that such approaches focus too narrowly o…
The Work of Policing
The ‘tyranny’ of doctors
Australian liberalism and corporatism
George Brandis, Tom Harley and Don Markwell (eds), Liberals face the Future: Essays on Australian Liberalism, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 386, $14.99 (paper) and Katharine West, The Revolution in Australian Politics, Melbourne, Penguin Books, 1984, pp. 116, $4.95 (paper). John Rickard, H.B. Higgins: the rebel as judge. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp.350. $29.95 (cloth). Stuart Macintyre, Militant: the life and times of Paddy Tr…
Rebels and Radicals
Australian liberalism and corporatism
George Brandis, Tom Harley and Don Markwell (eds), Liberals face the Future: Essays on Australian Liberalism, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 386, $14.99 (paper) and Katharine West, The Revolution in Australian Politics, Melbourne, Penguin Books, 1984, pp. 116, $4.95 (paper). John Rickard, H.B. Higgins: the rebel as judge. Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1984, pp.350. $29.95 (cloth). Stuart Macintyre, Militant: the life and times of Paddy Tr…
The Rise of the Therapeutic State
Once a Drunkard Always a Drunkard
The drink problem loomed large in the minds of nineteenth century Australian philanthropists, clergy and social reformers. At its high points, in the 1830s and 1840s and again between 1880 and the First World War, the temperance movement was one of the largest social reform movements in Australia. Total abstinence was the guiding principle of the nineteenth century temperance movement but from the 1880s temperance advocates also developed more so…
Medicine and madness
Out of Luck
A poor colony survival of the fittest colonial charity workers' welfare pensions and pills one long depression a welfare state? a banana republic
The ‘tyranny’ of doctors
The Work of Policing
Queensland has been seen as not only the heartland of labour but also of cultural uniformity and an 'authoritarianism, uninhibited by a middle-class liberal tradition'.1 This was especially so in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when business interests dominated the Queensland parliament, particularly during the Premierships of Thomas Mcllwraith (1879-83,1888,1893) and Robert Philp (1899-1903,1907-08).2 One consequence of this au…
The Work of Policing
A History of Footscray
Sound minds and healthy bodies
(1994). Sound minds and healthy bodies: Re‐considering eugenics in Australia, 1914–1940. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 26, No. 103, pp. 163-181
"Three Views on "Creating a Nation
View One Reviewing this book has not been easy, let me tell you. Only the most persistent review editor in recent memory has led to this review being finished at all. Having already discussed Creating A Nation in a mere 800 words for The Age, and finding it difficult to talk about the work of people I know extremely well, I had hoped my earlier commitment to Labour History would be set aside. It was not to be. Still, looking at the book again, af…
Workers' Welfare
This article investigates the historical dimensions of the labour movement's relationship to the welfare state in Australia and Canada during the 20th century. It assesses existing class and party politics theories of this relationship and by proposing particular historical accounts of the welfare state in a comparative context, it seeks to move beyond the limitations of these theories. The article argues that such approaches focus too narrowly o…
Crimes and Trials
The Cost of War
War and masculinity in twentieth century Australia
(1998). War and masculinity in twentieth century Australia. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 22, Australian masculinities, pp. 86-95
The Cost of War
Journal Article The Cost of War: Australians Return. By Stephen Garton. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii, 298 pp. ISBN 0-19-553967-2.) Get access Robert J. McMahon Robert J. McMahon University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 319–320, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567548 Published: 01 June 1999
Books
The Country of Lost Children: An. Australian Anxiety. By Peter Pierce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 211. $24.95 paper. life over Death: Tasmanians and Tuberculosis. By Michael Roe. Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Hobart, 1999. Pp. 234. $22.00 paper. The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia. By Joy Damousi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x + 212. $29.95 paper…
Books
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000. By Anna Haebich. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Pp. 726. $35.00 paper. My Dark Brother. The Story of the Wins, a Russian‐Aboriginal Family. By Elena Govor. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 385. $34.95 cloth. Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. By Peter Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 248. $29.95 …
Changi as television
The scales of suffering
This article examines an extensive set of mourning diaries by a prominent Victorian doctor and social reformer, written after the death of his wife during childbirth. Through an analysis of the complex grieving performances in these texts, the article questions some of the prevailing representations of Victorian masculinity which argue that the late nineteenth century was a period of masculine 'flight from domesticity'. This article argues that t…
Contesting Enslavement
Tracks the troubled relationships between Sybylla Melwyn and the men in My Brilliant Career, arguing that 'there is something more to male-female relations in My Brilliant Career than genre, literary tradition and autobiography. My Brilliant Career is also a savage political indictment of heterosexual relations in Australian colonial society, and a remarkably intriguing one, especially given her age and social and political context'. The essay ai…
Australia's Heart of Darkness
Managing Mercy
Journal Article Managing Mercy: African Americans, Parole and Paternalism in the Georgia Prison System 1919–1945 Get access Stephen Garton Stephen Garton Department of History, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Spring 2003, Pages 675–699, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2003.0049 Published: 01 March 2003
Books
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. By Philip Temple. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. 584. NZ$69.95 cloth. The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. Edited by Brad Patterson. Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002. Pp. xiv + 212. NZ$34.95 paper. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History. Edited by Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles. Dunedin: University of Otago Press,…
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