Peter Spearritt

Biographic Data

ID687897
NAMEPeter Spearritt
GIVEN NAMESPeter
FAMILY NAMESpearritt
SIGNATURESPEARRITT P
AFFILIATIONSNorth-West State Technical University
ORCID0000-0001-6716-5000
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban Australia

    Andrea Gaynor, Jenny Gregory et al.BOOKCities in a Sunburnt Country2022

  • Water Forever: Warragamba and Wivenhoe Dams

    Margaret Cook, Peter SpearrittARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2021Cited by: 2

    Brisbane and Sydney's prewar dams and reservoirs were not sufficient to provide reticulated water to the hundreds of thousands of new households that settled in rapidly growing suburbs from the early 1950s. Following American precedent, large concrete gravity dams became easier to build. Hydrologists predicted the likely volume that catchments and valleys could both collect and hold if dammed. This article examines the decision-making trajectory …

  • From Water Engineers to Financial Engineering: Water Provision in Australia’s East Coast Capital Cities, 1945-2015

    Open AccessSeamus O’Hanlon, Peter SpearrittARTICLEJournal of Urban History2020

    This article analyzes the provision of urban water in Australia’s three east coast capital cities—Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne—from the big dams of the post–World War II years to recently completed desalination plants. We trace how major statutory authorities and their engineers built up both their organizations and their water storage and distribution assets in the Fordist 1950s and 1960s, before these bodies were restructured under the guise…

  • Dennis N. Jeans 1934–2020

    Gwenda Sheridan, Peter SpearrittARTICLEAustralian Geographer2020

    Dennis Jeans, an English-educated geographer, was one of the most influential historical geographers of Australia: one of a group of migrant British historical geographers, the others being Les Hea

  • The 200 Km City: Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast

    Open AccessPeter SpearrittARTICLEAustralian Economic History Review2009

    Since the 1970s, several Southeast Queensland coastal towns in areas marketed as the ‘Gold Coast’ and the ‘Sunshine Coast’ have merged with each other and joined with Brisbane to become one of the world's longest urban coastal strips. The population of this 200 km long city is fast approaching three million. This urban pattern reflects the preferences of many Australians about where and in what type of housing they would like to live. The unplann…

  • Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia since 1870

    Open AccessBeverley Kingston, Jim Davidson et al.ARTICLELabour History2001

    This work provides a breakthrough study of tourism. The authors set out to show how people developed facilities, accommodation and transport, and then how publicity and government support followed. Davidson and Spearritt demonstrate that it provides an important dimension to the social and environmental history of Australia. They are very much concerned with depicting the changing context of tourism: from a pastime of the rich, to the interventio…

  • Money, taste and industrial heritage

    Peter SpearrittARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies1991Cited by: 2

    (1991). Money, taste and industrial heritage. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 24, No. 96, pp. 33-45

  • Celebration of a nation: The triumph of spectacle∗

    Peter SpearrittARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies1988Cited by: 4References: 2

    (1988). Celebration of a nation: The triumph of spectacle. Australian Historical Studies: Vol. 23, No. 91, pp. 3-20

  • Australians to 1788

    Open AccessH Goodall, Paula Hamilton et al.ARTICLELabour History1988

  • Sydney: A Social and Political Atlas

    Ingrid Cranfield, Michael Poulsen et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1982Cited by: 2

  • Sydney. A Social and Political Atlas

    Open AccessCarolyn Allport, Michael Poulson et al.ARTICLELabour History1982

  • The Open Air Museum: The Cultural Landscape of New South Wales

    Open AccessDavid Denholm, D N Jeans et al.ARTICLELabour History1982

  • A political political economy

    Peter SpearrittARTICLEPolitics1981

    E.L. Wheelwright and Ken Buckley (eds). Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism, Sydney, ANZ Book Co., Vol. I, 1975, pp. 272, Vol.5, 1978, pp. 207, Vol.3, 1978, pp. 210, Vol.4, 1980, pp. 314. Vols. 1–3 $7.95, Vol. 4 $9.95

  • Australian Popular Culture

    Open AccessPeter Cook, Peter G Cook et al.ARTICLELabour History1981Cited by: 8

  • Sydney since the Twenties

    Open AccessBede Nairn, Peter SpearrittARTICLELabour History1980

  • Who's Who in Australia

    Open AccessPeter Spearritt, Jerome S LeggeARTICLELabour History1975Cited by: 6

  • Sydney at the Census, 1971: A Social Atlas

    Open AccessTerry Irving, J R Davis et al.ARTICLELabour History1975

  • Women in Sydney Factories "c." 1920-50

    Open AccessPeter SpearrittARTICLELabour History1975

  • Towards a biographical register of the new south Wales parliament, 1901–1970

    Heather Radi, Peter SpearrittARTICLEPolitics1974

    (1974). Towards a biographical register of the new south Wales parliament, 1901–1970. Politics: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 93-94

  • "Sydney's "Slums: Middle Class Reformers and the Labor Response

    Open AccessPeter SpearrittARTICLELabour History1974Cited by: 2

    from one's particular view of middle class reformers and on the extent to which one subscribes to a physical determinist philosophy. I will admit my basic values in these matters at the outset?a distrust of the moral paternalism and social analysis of middle class reformers however good their aims may have been, and a distrust of that kind of entrenched physical determinism which can produce such unquestioned truths as morality is a question of s…

  • The Potted Biography Industry: Who Has the Unionists

    Open AccessPeter Spearritt, Jerome S Legge et al.ARTICLELabour History1974