Jan Kociumbas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Kociumbas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kociumbas |
| SIGNATURE | KOCIUMBAS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
My life in history
This essay explores the familial and historical circumstances that shaped my pursuit of historical research and, subsequently, underpinned my discontent with some of the practices that surrounded it at Australian universities from the 1970s through to the 1990s. I explore some of the ideas and inspirations that drove my research on childhood, the writing of a volume of the Oxford History of Australia, as well as my engagement with and support for…
Genocide and Settler Society
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
Azaria's Antecedents
Recent historical studies have reconsidered the plight of white women accused of infanticide in Australia, casting new light especially on the motives of single women and mothers of large families. Still unredeemed and largely unanalysed, however, is the baby-farmer. This article explores stereotypes of this bête noire of the nineteenth-century city, addressing concurrent medicalisation of the maternal body, child-birth, infant feeding and foster…
Book
Convict Women. By Kay Daniels. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xi + 276. $24.95 paper. Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Labour Forced Migration. Edited by Ian Duffield and James Bradley. Leicester University Press, London, 1997. Pp. xxii + 224. £49.95 cloth. Irish Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Trevor McClaughlin. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xvii + 229. $24.95 paper. Catherine: On Catherine Currie's Diary, 1878–190…
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
Waterloo Creek
The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 2, 1770-1860
Science as Cultural Ideology
In Australia the history of museums and of mechanics' institutes has traditionally been seen in Whiggish terms as liberal effort to advance 'useful knowledge', public enlightenment and human progress. Thus museums, which originated as private and rather eccentric collections of 'rare and curious' scientific specimens and objets d'art, are seen as of some intellectual stature and considerable educative importance as they become public institutions…
The Fatal Shore. A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
A description of the transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian England into a horrific penal system in Australia
Childhood History as Ideology
Social scientists today frequently point to the need for historical perspec tive in current study of childhood and family, and to the failure of historians to give everyday, domestic life the attention it deserves.1 However, they are by no means united in their view of what the aims and methods of such a study ought to be. Some believe that the writing of children and families into the history books is intrinsically worthwhile, since their absenc…
Azaria's Antecedents
Recent historical studies have reconsidered the plight of white women accused of infanticide in Australia, casting new light especially on the motives of single women and mothers of large families. Still unredeemed and largely unanalysed, however, is the baby-farmer. This article explores stereotypes of this bête noire of the nineteenth-century city, addressing concurrent medicalisation of the maternal body, child-birth, infant feeding and foster…
Childhood History as Ideology
Social scientists today frequently point to the need for historical perspec tive in current study of childhood and family, and to the failure of historians to give everyday, domestic life the attention it deserves.1 However, they are by no means united in their view of what the aims and methods of such a study ought to be. Some believe that the writing of children and families into the history books is intrinsically worthwhile, since their absenc…
The Fatal Shore. A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
A description of the transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian England into a horrific penal system in Australia
Science as Cultural Ideology
In Australia the history of museums and of mechanics' institutes has traditionally been seen in Whiggish terms as liberal effort to advance 'useful knowledge', public enlightenment and human progress. Thus museums, which originated as private and rather eccentric collections of 'rare and curious' scientific specimens and objets d'art, are seen as of some intellectual stature and considerable educative importance as they become public institutions…
Waterloo Creek
The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 2, 1770-1860
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
Book
Convict Women. By Kay Daniels. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xi + 276. $24.95 paper. Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Labour Forced Migration. Edited by Ian Duffield and James Bradley. Leicester University Press, London, 1997. Pp. xxii + 224. £49.95 cloth. Irish Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Trevor McClaughlin. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xvii + 229. $24.95 paper. Catherine: On Catherine Currie's Diary, 1878–190…
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
Azaria's Antecedents
Recent historical studies have reconsidered the plight of white women accused of infanticide in Australia, casting new light especially on the motives of single women and mothers of large families. Still unredeemed and largely unanalysed, however, is the baby-farmer. This article explores stereotypes of this bête noire of the nineteenth-century city, addressing concurrent medicalisation of the maternal body, child-birth, infant feeding and foster…
Genocide and Settler Society
My life in history
This essay explores the familial and historical circumstances that shaped my pursuit of historical research and, subsequently, underpinned my discontent with some of the practices that surrounded it at Australian universities from the 1970s through to the 1990s. I explore some of the ideas and inspirations that drove my research on childhood, the writing of a volume of the Oxford History of Australia, as well as my engagement with and support for…
History (9 works) · Australian History and Society (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Publishing (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)