Peter Cochrane
Biographic Data
| ID | 688718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Cochrane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Cochrane |
| SIGNATURE | COCHRANE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Another Strange Chapter in the History of a Legend
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter CochranePeter Cochrane’s most recent work is the novella Governor Bligh and the Short Man (Penguin, 2012). The new edition of Simpson and the Donkey. The Making of a Legend was published by Melbourne University Press in January 2014
Colonial Ambition
The Price of War
industry, older university presses appear to be retreating from publishing Australian history altogether. The demise of Cambridge's Studies in Australian History Series is a case in point. Today, PhD theses (however topical or brilliant) seldom make that difficult transition to a monograph and even well established authors (what the industry calls the 'big names' of the profession) are invited to return their manuscript with a hefty publication s…
How are the Egyptians behaving?’
Herbert Brookes was a wealthy businessman, a distinguished patron of high culture in Melbourne society, an anti-Labor eminence who moved comfortably in the highest of imperial circles. The richness of his papers in the National Library provides the opportunity to examine the life of a leading British-Australian, to analyse issues of conscience and purpose that do not figure much in current historiography and perhaps to throw new light on the conc…
Simpson and the Donkey
Legendary proportions
Anatomy of a Steel Works
For Australian secondary industry the Great War had two outstanding effects: one was the wider production of import replacement goods; a second was the rise of a metals processing industry, with silver, lead and zinc dominated by the Collins House conglomerate and iron and steel by BHP at Newcastle. After the war BHP moved inexorably towards a monopoly of iron and steel production, and built a network of subsidiary and associated firms which cate…
The great Australian journey
Company Time
Industrial management in Australia acquired leadership, organisation and ethos in the 1940s. By 1943 four percent of Australian factories employed half the industrial workforce; heavy industry had broadened and consolidated from narrow beginnings in 1915; and mass production with the assembly-line dominated a number of manufacturing sectors. The vastness and complexity acquired by industry in these years called forth a managerial strata for the p…
Defence Not Defiance. The Development of Organised Labour in South Australia
Gold
The Wonthaggi Coal Strike, 1934
Colonial Ambition
The great Australian journey
How are the Egyptians behaving?’
Herbert Brookes was a wealthy businessman, a distinguished patron of high culture in Melbourne society, an anti-Labor eminence who moved comfortably in the highest of imperial circles. The richness of his papers in the National Library provides the opportunity to examine the life of a leading British-Australian, to analyse issues of conscience and purpose that do not figure much in current historiography and perhaps to throw new light on the conc…
The Wonthaggi Coal Strike, 1934
Company Time
Industrial management in Australia acquired leadership, organisation and ethos in the 1940s. By 1943 four percent of Australian factories employed half the industrial workforce; heavy industry had broadened and consolidated from narrow beginnings in 1915; and mass production with the assembly-line dominated a number of manufacturing sectors. The vastness and complexity acquired by industry in these years called forth a managerial strata for the p…
The Wonthaggi Coal Strike, 1934
Gold
Defence Not Defiance. The Development of Organised Labour in South Australia
Company Time
Industrial management in Australia acquired leadership, organisation and ethos in the 1940s. By 1943 four percent of Australian factories employed half the industrial workforce; heavy industry had broadened and consolidated from narrow beginnings in 1915; and mass production with the assembly-line dominated a number of manufacturing sectors. The vastness and complexity acquired by industry in these years called forth a managerial strata for the p…
The great Australian journey
Anatomy of a Steel Works
For Australian secondary industry the Great War had two outstanding effects: one was the wider production of import replacement goods; a second was the rise of a metals processing industry, with silver, lead and zinc dominated by the Collins House conglomerate and iron and steel by BHP at Newcastle. After the war BHP moved inexorably towards a monopoly of iron and steel production, and built a network of subsidiary and associated firms which cate…
Legendary proportions
Simpson and the Donkey
How are the Egyptians behaving?’
Herbert Brookes was a wealthy businessman, a distinguished patron of high culture in Melbourne society, an anti-Labor eminence who moved comfortably in the highest of imperial circles. The richness of his papers in the National Library provides the opportunity to examine the life of a leading British-Australian, to analyse issues of conscience and purpose that do not figure much in current historiography and perhaps to throw new light on the conc…
The Price of War
industry, older university presses appear to be retreating from publishing Australian history altogether. The demise of Cambridge's Studies in Australian History Series is a case in point. Today, PhD theses (however topical or brilliant) seldom make that difficult transition to a monograph and even well established authors (what the industry calls the 'big names' of the profession) are invited to return their manuscript with a hefty publication s…
Colonial Ambition
Another Strange Chapter in the History of a Legend
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter CochranePeter Cochrane’s most recent work is the novella Governor Bligh and the Short Man (Penguin, 2012). The new edition of Simpson and the Donkey. The Making of a Legend was published by Melbourne University Press in January 2014
Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Australian History and Society (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)