Steve Mullins

Biographic Data

ID5528487
NAMESteve Mullins
GIVEN NAMESSteve
FAMILY NAMEMullins
SIGNATUREMULLINS S
AFFILIATIONSCentral Queensland University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX2

  • Pearls, People, and Power

    Steven Mullins, Pedro Machado et al.EDITORBOOKPearls, People, and Power2020

  • Pearls, People and Power

    Pedro Machado, Steve Mullins et al.BOOKPearls, People, and Power2020

    Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. While scholars have long recognized the importance of pearling to the social, cultural, and economic practices of both coastal and inland areas, the overwhelming majority have confined themselves to highly localized or at best regional studies of the pea…

  • Northern Dreams

    Steve Mullin, Steve MullinsARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2019Cited by: 2

    Northern Dreams: The Politics of Northern Development in Australia." Australian Historical Studies, 50(2), pp. 280–281

  • Company Boats, Sailing Dinghies and Passenger Fish

    Open AccessSteve Mullin, Steve Mullins Steve Mullin et al.ARTICLELabour History2012

    While research has been conducted into Torres Strait’s Queensland government controlled lugger-based company boat system, which operated from about 1904 until the late 1960s, another significant Torres Strait Islander mode of production, the gathering of marine product using shore-based sailing dinghies, has been largely overlooked. This article traces the emergence of this small-scale, yet substantial, pervasive and persistent form of enterprise…

  • ‘Heathen polynee’ and ‘nigger teachers’

    Open AccessSteve MullinsARTICLEAboriginal History Journal2011

    All too often historians have approached Torres Strait as if the patterns of contact there were little more than extensions of those that occurred on mainland Australia. Rarely have they made sufficient allowance for the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander societies were fundamentally different from one another, nor have they seemed willing to put aside preconceptions accumulated during their scholarly excursions onto Australia's past…

  • Can Environmental History Save the World

    Sarah Brown, Stephen Dover et al.ARTICLEHistory Australia2008References: 22

    As a ‘genre of history’ in Australia environmental history is relatively new, emerging in the 1960s and 70s from encounters between history, geography and the natural sciences in the context of growing environmental concern and activism. Interdisciplinary in orientation, the field also exhibited an unusually high level of engagement with current environmental issues and organisations. In this era of national research priorities and debates about …

  • To break ‘the trinity’ or ‘wipe out the smaller fry’

    Steve MullinsARTICLEJournal for Maritime Research2005References: 1

    This article traces the events and explains the circumstances that led to the signing of the Pearl Shell Convention of 1913. It delves into the sometimes bitter controversies and debates that divided turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian pearl-shellers, and which worked against them ever cooperating to achieve an organised market. These divisions also shaped the general public's perception of the industry, and when translated through the democ…

  • Nature, Progress and the 'Disorderly' Fitzroy

    Barbara Webster, Steve MullinsARTICLEEnvironment and History2003Cited by: 1

    In the nineteenth century, engineers deformed and reshaped the natural environment in the name of progress, particularly in new settler societies like Australia. This article focuses on attempts, some experimental but all ultimately unsuccessful, to render Queensland's Fitzroy River suitable for large-scale shipping by constructing 'training' walls and dredging intensively. In addition to examining the motivations for these efforts and their envi…

  • Queensland's quest for Torres Strait

    Steve MullinsARTICLEJournal of Pacific History1992Cited by: 1References: 2

    (1992). Queensland's quest for Torres Strait: The delusion of inevitability. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 165-180

  • Torres Straits pre-colonial population

    Open AccessSteve Mullin, Steve MullinsARTICLEQueensland Archaeological Research1992Cited by: 4

    This article argues that a close and informed reading of the historical evidence indicates that David Harris's 1979 estimate of the pre-colonial population of the western islands of Torres Strait is exaggerated, and that Jeremy Beckett's original 1971 estimate is more accurate