Dr John Perkins
Ph.D., History, University of New South Wales, 1985
DAAD Fellowship, University of Munich, 1968-69
Bsc., Economics, University of Hull, 1966
| Office: | W6A 417 |
| Phone: | +61 2 9850 8829 |
| Email: | jperkins@hmn.mq.edu.au |
Research Interests
The Motor Vehicle, Retailing, Pastoralism and Frontier Expansion in Australia; The German-Australian Relationship since 1788; Ethnic Minorities in Australia; German History since 1914.
Wheels and Deals: The Automotive Industry in Australia . (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001). (With Robert Conlon).
“Nazi Foreign Trade Policy and Australia, 1933-39”, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 34 (1) 2005, pp. 1-16
“The Swastika among the Coconuts: Nazism in New Guinea in the 1930s’, in Stein Larsen (Ed.) Fascism Outside Europe. (New York, Columbia University Press, 2001 pp. 376-91.
“National Identity Formation in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire: The Case of the Skerst Family”, National Identities, 3 (1) 2001, pp. 37-50.
“National and Imperial Identity: A Tryptich of Baltic Germans in Inner Asia”, in D. Christian and Benjamin, C (eds.) Realms of the Silk Road: Ancient and Modern. Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols, 2000) pp. 291-306. (With Felix Patrikeeff).
“Science versus Nature: The Cane-Beet Sugar Rivalry”, in P. Ahluwalia et al (eds) White and Deadly: Sugar and Colonialism. (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2000) pp. 157-80.
“Continuity in German History: The Treatment of Gypsies”, German History, 13 (1), 1999, pp. 62-82.
“Australian Government and Australian Manufacturing, 1919-1939”, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 45 (3) 1999, 376-91. (With Robert Conlon).
“The Stockman, the Shepherd and the Creation of an Australian Identity in the 19 th Century”, in David Day (ed.) Australian Identities. (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 1998) pp. 15-25.
“Organizational Form and Retailing Development: The Department and the Chain Store”, Service Industries Journal, Vol. 19 (4) 1999, pp. 123-46.
“Cattle Theft, Primitive Capital Accumulation and Pastoral Expansion in Colonial New South Wales”, Australian Historical Studies, 29, 1998, pp. 289-302.
“Automotive Industry Policy in Australia: Origins, Impact and Prospects”, in S. Paul (ed.) Trade and Growth: New Theory and the Australian Experience (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998) pp. 262-79. (With Robert Conlon).
“Hermann Arnold and “Gypsiology” in Germany after 1945”, in P. Monteith and F.S. Zuckerman (eds.) Modern Europe: Histories and Identities (Adelaide: Australian Humanities Press, 1998) pp. 243-250.
“The Struggle for Control of Hitler’s Nazi Party in Australia”, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 82 (1) 1996, pp. 88-195.
“The German-Australian Chamber of Commerce in the Interwar Era”, Zeitschrift fuer Unternehmensgeschichte, Vol. 40 (1) 1995, pp. 35-48.
‘Comparative Economic Development: The German and French Beet Sugar Industries before 1914”, in I. Zilli (ed.) Fra Spazio e Tempo: Studi in Onore di Luigi de Rosa (Naples: Edizioni Scientiche Italiane, 1995). Vol. 3, pp. 411-26.
“What Cowboy ever wished to join a Union? “Wild West Industrial Relations before 1914”, Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 26 (3) 1994, 319-330.
“’Germany Calling’”: Nazi Shortwave Broadcasting to Australia in the 1930s”, Journal of Australian Studies, No. 42, 1994, pp. 43-50.
“Fascism and the Russian Community in Interwar Queensland”, Journal of the Royal Queensland Historical Society, Vol. 15 (8) 1994. pp. 393-408.
“The Limits of Protectionism: The Tariff and Motor Vehicle Production in Australia”, in Peter Lindert (ed.) Political Economy of Protection and Commerce (Milan: Universita Bocconi Press, 1994) pp. 161-73.
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