Publications
Marcus Haward and Tom Griffiths (ed.), Australia and the Antarctic Treaty system: 50 years of influence, UNSW Press, 2011.
Gregory Barton, Lord Palmerston and the Empire of Trade, Pearson, 2011.
Kirsty Douglas, Pictures of Time Beneath: Science, Heritage and the Uses of the Deep Past, CSIRO Publishing, 2010.
Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (eds), Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, CSIRO Publishing, 2009.
Tiffany Shellam, Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George’s Sound, UWA Press, 2009.
Tom Griffiths, Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica, UNSW Press, 2007.
Libby Robin, How a Continent Created a Nation, UNSW Press, 2007.
Daniel Connell, Water Politics in the Murray-Darling Basin, Federation Press, 2007.
Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths, Libby Robin (eds), A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, NMA Press, 2005.
George Main, Heartland: The Regeneration of Rural Place, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005.
Rebe Taylor, Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island, Wakefield Press, 2002.
Tom Griffiths, Forests of Ash: An Environmental History, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Gregory Barton, Empire Forestry and the Origins of Environmentalism, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths (eds), Words for Country: Landscape & Language in Australia, UNSW Press, 2001.
Innovative, published research by postgraduate students
Recent and current research projects undertaken by graduate students affiliated with the Centre for Environmental History include a study of landscape, heritage, deep-time and the archaeological imagination in Australia; science and prophecy in the atomic age; the Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island; a history of fire and pastoralism in the Northern Territory; landscape change and social memory in the Lachlan Valley; an environmental history of the Otway Ranges in Victoria; a history of floods in the Murray-Darling Basin; history, memory and the Aboriginal people of the Snowy-Monaro region; politics and diplomacy of the Australian Antarctic; a study of the origins of the Antarctic Treaty; a history of weather in northern Australia; and agricultural science and history in western NSW. ANU doctoral graduates and candidates in this research area have won scholarly prizes for their books and articles. Notable books by recent graduates include: Kirsty Douglas, Pictures of Time Beneath: Science, Heritage and the Uses of the Deep Past, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2010; Rebe Taylor, Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2002; George Main, Heartland: The Regeneration of Rural Place, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005; Darrell Lewis, Slower Than The Eye Can See: Environmental Change in Northern Australia’s Cattle Lands, Tropical Savannas CRC, Darwin, 2002; Tiffany Shellam, Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George’s Sound, UWA Press, Perth, 2009; and Daniel Connell, Water Politics in the Murray-Darling Basin, Federation Press, Canberra, 2007. Several more are in press.
