Staff profile

Mr Tony Barta

Honorary Research Associate

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

MA (Otago)

Area of study

History

Brief profile

Mr Tony Barta is an Honorary Research Associate within the History Program. His research interests include 20th Century German history; especially. relations between social life, culture and ideology; genocide in colonial societies; History media.

Research interests

European History

- 20th Century German history

- genocide in colonial societies

- relations between social life, culture and ideology

Recent publications

On Genocide

  • ‘After the Holocaust: Consciousness of Genocide in Australia’, The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 31, No. 1, 1985, special issue ed, Konrad Kwiet and John A. Moses, 154-161.
  • ‘Relations of Genocide: Land and Lives in the Colonization of Australia’ in Isidor Wallimann and Michael N. Dobkowski eds, Genocide and the Modern Age: Etiology and Case Studies of Mass Death (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987) pp. 237-251.
  • ‘Discourses of genocide in Germany and Australia: a linked history’, in Ann Curthoys and John Docker eds, ‘ “Genocide”? Australian Aboriginal history in international perspective’, Aboriginal History, Vol. 25, 2001, 37-56.
  • ‘Mr Darwin’s Shooters: On Natural Selection and the Naturalizing of Genocide,’ Patterns of Prejudice 39, no. 2 (2005): 116-37. Also in A. Dirk Moses and Dan Stone eds, Colonialism and Genocide (London and New York: Routledge, 2007). An audio version is available at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2006/1812165.htm
  • ‘On pain of extinction: laws of nature and history in Darwin, Marx and Arendt’, in Richard H. King and Dan Stone, eds, Imperialism, Slavery, Race and Genocide: The Legacy of Hannah Arendt, (New York: Berghahn 2007)
  • 'On Pain of Extinction: Laws and History in Darwin, Marx and Arendt', Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History, Ed(s). Richard H King and Dan Stone, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books,2007, pp. 87-108.
  • Barta, A 'Darwin's Shooters', Lies, Deep Fries and Statistics, Ed(s). Robyn Williams, Sydney, ABC,2007, pp. 11-25.
  • ‘Decent Disposal: Australian Historians and the Recovery of Genocide’ in Dan Stone ed., The Historiography of Genocide (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
  • ‘With intent to deny: on colonial intentions and genocide denial’, Journal of Genocide Research, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2008 , 111-119
  • ‘Sorry, and Not Sorry, in Australia: How the apology to the stolen generations buried a history of genocide’, Journal of Genocide Research, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2008, pp.201-214.
  • ‘ “They appear actually to vanish from the face of the earth.” Aborigines and the European project in Australia Felix’, Journal of Genocide Research, Vol 10, Issue 4, 2008, pp519-539.
  • " Three responses to 'can There Be Genocide Without the Intent to Commit Genocide'?", Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2008, pp.111-133.
  • 'Decent Disposal: Australian Historians and the Recovery of Genocide', Decent Disposal: Australian Historians and the Recovery of Genocide, Ed(s). Dan Stone, New York, Palgrave 2008, pp. 296-322.

On Germany

  • ‘After Nazism: Antifascism and Democracy in Dachau, 1945’, in Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann, eds, Radical Perspectives on the Rise of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1945 (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1989) pp. 289-318.
  • ‘Living in Dachau: Bavarian Catholics and the Fate of the Jews 1893-1843’, in John Milfull (ed.) Why Germany? (Oxford: Berg, 1993)
  • Nazi Germany: Understanding the Third Reich, La Trobe University Studies in History (revised and expanded edition), 2004

On Film

Research projects

  • Living in Dachau 1900-1950; Darwinism and genocide; media and historical understanding.