Benjamin Mountford
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Mountford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mountford |
| SIGNATURE | MOUNTFORD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5429-2921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Understanding supervisory practice and development in the pre-HDR space
This article addresses the lack of support for new supervisors in the pre-Higher Degree Research space, including undergraduate honours and postgraduate capstone projects. The research provides an inter-faculty perspective on the needs of pre-HDR students and supervisors, informing an online professional learning resource to address the problem. Concepts from ethogenic social psychology were used to theorise supervision as a complex practice invo…
Multiracial Britishness
Thomas M. Larkin. The China Firm
A Symbol of Imperial Unity? The Australian Colonies and the 1897 Imperial Conference
The 1897 colonial conference coincided with Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and an outpouring of late‐Victorian imperial sentiment. Against this backdrop of imperial celebration, colonial leaders met with Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, whose own views as to the importance of imperial reform were taking shape. For the most part, while grateful for Chamberlain's interests, Australian leaders feared significant imperial re…
Westralia shall be free!’
In 1935, a Joint Parliamentary Committee at Westminster reported on ‘The Petition from the State of Western Australia in Relation to Secession’. The culmination of a process triggered by a 1933 referendum, when two-thirds of West Australians voted to secede from the Australian Commonwealth, the Joint Committee famously resolved that Western Australia’s petition was ‘not proper to be received’. Not for the last time in British history, a referendu…
All that glitters
The fiftieth anniversary of Sovereign Hill, an iconic Australian tourism destination, provides a key point to consider the curatorial and historical perspectives of the museum’s past. This article considers its role and place as a regional community institution and its approach to telling the local, national, and international histories of the gold rush era of the mid-nineteenth century. Since opening in 1970, Sovereign Hill has provided millions…
Colonial Australia, the 1887 Colonial Conference, and the Struggle for Imperial Unity
For historians interested in the settler colonial world, one of Professor John Darwin’s most important interventions has been to argue for the reintegration of the dominions into the wider history of the British empire. In re-engaging with the history of Britain’s white settler colonies in North America, Australasia, and South Africa, Darwin’s work has sought to emphasize the place of the dominions in relation to the rise and fall of the British …
Making Connections
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Global History of Gold Rushes
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Gold rushes accelerated the global circulation of people, goods, capital, and technologies that transformed settler societies around the world. Yet they are rarely considered in a global perspective. While in the past, national histories have emphasized the role of gold rushes as accelerants of state formation, crucibles of national character, and watersheds of political development, the essays in Gold R…
Send Fook Shing
This article opens a biographical window onto Australian colonial history and, in particular, the coming together of the British and Chinese Empires in colonial Victoria. It takes as its focus the personal history of Fook Shing, a prominent Chinese leader and ‘headman’ at Bendigo during the 1850s, who went on to become colonial Victoria’s longest serving Chinese detective
Sometimes as a Half-Way House to China
This chapter considers the importance of China in shaping contemporary views about Australian colonization, colonial development, and colonial trade, from the 1780s down to the 1840s. In doing so, it explores some of the ways in which British observers linked Australian settlement to the wider scheme of British interests in Asia. Utilizing a range of official, archival, and published sources, it also illuminates many of the nascent maritime, comm…
Britain, China, and Colonial Australia
Reaching back to the arrival of the British in the 1780s, 'Britain, China, and Colonial Australia' explores the early history of Australian engagement with China and traces the development of colonial Australia into an important point of contact between the British and Chinese Empires
Sojourning and Settling
During the past thirty years, our understanding of the history of Chinese Australians has been remade. Today, as a growing community of researchers delves into the archives, new insights into the political, economic and cultural dimensions of Chinese Australian experiences are emerging. The tired, one-dimensional depictions of the sojourning celestial digger have, at last, given way to a more complex view. Historians of the Chinese in Australia h…
Chinatown by Ipod
Remembering Chinatown. A walking tour of Little Bourke Street in the 1930s and 40s, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne. Duration: 1 hr, $10 includes printed guide and iPod hire. Tour website: http://www.chinesemuseum.com.au/whatson_heritage_tours.html
Sojourning and Settling
During the past thirty years, our understanding of the history of Chinese Australians has been remade. Today, as a growing community of researchers delves into the archives, new insights into the political, economic and cultural dimensions of Chinese Australian experiences are emerging. The tired, one-dimensional depictions of the sojourning celestial digger have, at last, given way to a more complex view. Historians of the Chinese in Australia h…
Colonial Australia, the 1887 Colonial Conference, and the Struggle for Imperial Unity
For historians interested in the settler colonial world, one of Professor John Darwin’s most important interventions has been to argue for the reintegration of the dominions into the wider history of the British empire. In re-engaging with the history of Britain’s white settler colonies in North America, Australasia, and South Africa, Darwin’s work has sought to emphasize the place of the dominions in relation to the rise and fall of the British …
Making Connections
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Chinatown by Ipod
Remembering Chinatown. A walking tour of Little Bourke Street in the 1930s and 40s, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne. Duration: 1 hr, $10 includes printed guide and iPod hire. Tour website: http://www.chinesemuseum.com.au/whatson_heritage_tours.html
Sojourning and Settling
During the past thirty years, our understanding of the history of Chinese Australians has been remade. Today, as a growing community of researchers delves into the archives, new insights into the political, economic and cultural dimensions of Chinese Australian experiences are emerging. The tired, one-dimensional depictions of the sojourning celestial digger have, at last, given way to a more complex view. Historians of the Chinese in Australia h…
Sometimes as a Half-Way House to China
This chapter considers the importance of China in shaping contemporary views about Australian colonization, colonial development, and colonial trade, from the 1780s down to the 1840s. In doing so, it explores some of the ways in which British observers linked Australian settlement to the wider scheme of British interests in Asia. Utilizing a range of official, archival, and published sources, it also illuminates many of the nascent maritime, comm…
Britain, China, and Colonial Australia
Reaching back to the arrival of the British in the 1780s, 'Britain, China, and Colonial Australia' explores the early history of Australian engagement with China and traces the development of colonial Australia into an important point of contact between the British and Chinese Empires
Send Fook Shing
This article opens a biographical window onto Australian colonial history and, in particular, the coming together of the British and Chinese Empires in colonial Victoria. It takes as its focus the personal history of Fook Shing, a prominent Chinese leader and ‘headman’ at Bendigo during the 1850s, who went on to become colonial Victoria’s longest serving Chinese detective
Global History of Gold Rushes
Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Gold rushes accelerated the global circulation of people, goods, capital, and technologies that transformed settler societies around the world. Yet they are rarely considered in a global perspective. While in the past, national histories have emphasized the role of gold rushes as accelerants of state formation, crucibles of national character, and watersheds of political development, the essays in Gold R…
Colonial Australia, the 1887 Colonial Conference, and the Struggle for Imperial Unity
For historians interested in the settler colonial world, one of Professor John Darwin’s most important interventions has been to argue for the reintegration of the dominions into the wider history of the British empire. In re-engaging with the history of Britain’s white settler colonies in North America, Australasia, and South Africa, Darwin’s work has sought to emphasize the place of the dominions in relation to the rise and fall of the British …
Making Connections
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
All that glitters
The fiftieth anniversary of Sovereign Hill, an iconic Australian tourism destination, provides a key point to consider the curatorial and historical perspectives of the museum’s past. This article considers its role and place as a regional community institution and its approach to telling the local, national, and international histories of the gold rush era of the mid-nineteenth century. Since opening in 1970, Sovereign Hill has provided millions…
Westralia shall be free!’
In 1935, a Joint Parliamentary Committee at Westminster reported on ‘The Petition from the State of Western Australia in Relation to Secession’. The culmination of a process triggered by a 1933 referendum, when two-thirds of West Australians voted to secede from the Australian Commonwealth, the Joint Committee famously resolved that Western Australia’s petition was ‘not proper to be received’. Not for the last time in British history, a referendu…
A Symbol of Imperial Unity? The Australian Colonies and the 1897 Imperial Conference
The 1897 colonial conference coincided with Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and an outpouring of late‐Victorian imperial sentiment. Against this backdrop of imperial celebration, colonial leaders met with Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, whose own views as to the importance of imperial reform were taking shape. For the most part, while grateful for Chamberlain's interests, Australian leaders feared significant imperial re…
Understanding supervisory practice and development in the pre-HDR space
This article addresses the lack of support for new supervisors in the pre-Higher Degree Research space, including undergraduate honours and postgraduate capstone projects. The research provides an inter-faculty perspective on the needs of pre-HDR students and supervisors, informing an online professional learning resource to address the problem. Concepts from ethogenic social psychology were used to theorise supervision as a complex practice invo…
Multiracial Britishness
Thomas M. Larkin. The China Firm
History (11 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Australian History and Society (8 works) · History (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)