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Professor David Day

Honorary Research Fellow and visiting Professor of Australian Studies, University of Tokyo (from October 2006) Room: David Myers Building E101 Tel: (61 3) 9479 2380 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942 Email: david.day@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: BA (Hons) Melb., PhD Cambridge

Research interests: Australian history, political biography, institutional history, Second World War, supplanting societies

Research Projects
A biography of Andrew Fisher.

Research Publications

Books

• Menzies and Churchill at War, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1986; Paragon Press, New York, 1987; Oxford University Press, 1993; Simon and Schuster, Sydney, 2001, 253 pp.
  
• Smugglers and Sailors, AGPS Press, Canberra, 1992
  Contraband and Controversy, AGPS Press, Canberra, 1996
  
• Brave New World: Dr. H.V. Evatt and Australian foreign policy, 1941-1949, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1996.
  
• Claiming a Continent: A new history of Australia, HarperCollins, Sydney, 1996; second edition, 1997; third edition, 2001 and reprinted several times; republished as a Harper Perennial, July 2005. 346 pp; Danish translation published by Roskilde University Press, 2003.
  
• Australian Identities, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 1998
  
• John Curtin: A Life, HarperCollins, Sydney, 1999; reissued as a Harper Perennial, 2006,Chifley, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2001
  
• The Politics of War, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2003
  
• Conquest: A new history of the modern world, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2005; published in Spanish by Critica, Barcelona, 2006
• Andrew Fisher: Prime Minister of Australia, Australia, 2008, Fourth Estate.
• Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others, Oxford, 2008, Oxford University Press.

Chapters in Books

• 'Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki', in Carl Bridge (ed.), Munich to Vietnam:
  Australia's relations with Britain and the United States since the 1930s,
  Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1991.
  
• 'The end of Australia's complacency' in David Horner (ed.), The Battles that Shaped Australia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1991.
  
• 'Dr H.V. Evatt and the Search for a Sub-Empire in the Southwest Pacific', in Day (ed.), Brave New World: Dr. H.V. Evatt and Australian foreign policy, 1941-1949, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1996.
  
• 'The Demise of the Digger: Australian Identity in a Post-colonial World', in Day (ed.), Australian Identities, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 1998.
  
• ‘The White Australia Policy’, in Carl Bridge and Bernard Attard (eds.), Between Empire and Nation: Australia’s external relations from Federation to the Second World War, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2000.
  
• 'Gallipoli, Embezzlement and a Death in the Bush: John Curtin's first war', in John Curtin's Legacy: A series of public lectures from the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, JCPML, Perth, 2000.
  
• 'John Joseph Curtin' and 'Paul John Keating' in Michelle Grattan (ed.), Australian Prime Ministers, New Holland Publishers, Sydney, 2000.
  
• 'One damn thing after another: the Great Depression, the Second World War and the transformation of Australia', in P. Bastion and R. Bell (eds), Through Depression and War: the United States and Australia, Australian-American Fulbright Commission, Canberra, 2002.
  
• ‘Hawke and the Labor Tradition’, in Susan Ryan and Troy Bramston (eds.), The Hawke Government: A Critical Retrospective, Pluto Press, Melbourne, 2003.
• 'Menzies and Curtin as War Leaders', Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Since 1788, Ed(s). Deborah Gare and David Ritter, Australia, Thomson, 2008.
• 'Prime Minister Curtin's New Year Message: Australia looks to America', Turning Points in Australian History, Ed(s). Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts, Sydney, UNSW Press, 2008.
  

Journal Articles

• 'Anzacs on the run: the view from Whitehall, 1941-2', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, May 1986.
  
• 'Promise and Performance: Britain's Pacific pledge, 1943-45', War and Society, September 1986.
  
• 'P.G. Taylor and the alternative Pacific air route, 1939-45', Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1986.
  
• 'An undiplomatic incident: S.M. Bruce and the moves to curb Churchill, February 1942', Journal of Australian Studies, November 1986.
  
• 'H.V. Evatt and the "Beat Hitler First" strategy: scheming politician or an innocent abroad?', Historical Studies, October 1987.
  
• ‘Loosening the Bonds: Britain, Australia and the Second World War’, History Today, February 1988.
  
• 'Aliens in a hostile land: a reappraisal of Australian history', Journal of Australian History, November 1988.
  
• ‘Customs and the Cambodians’, Australian Customs History Journal, June 1990.
  
• ‘Churchill and his War Rivals’, History Today, April 1991.
  
• ‘Has Britain Let Us Down? A Reconsideration’, Royal Historical Society of Queensland Journal, May 1992.
  
• ‘A State in Search of a Nation: Australian Nationalism and the Second World War’, Royal Historical Society of Queensland Journal, November 1993.
  
• ‘Alien Shores: Writing a new history of Australia’, Trevor Reese Memorial Lecture, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 1995.
  
• ‘Cabinet table and Kitchen table’, Meanjin, 1/2002.
  
  Personal website: www.davidday.com.au