About Mr Richard White
Mr Richard White’s research interests include Australian history, history of travel and tourism.
Mr Richard White is a graduate of the University of Sydney and after teaching at Monash University and the University of Western Sydney, joined the Department in 1989. He teaches in all areas of Australian history, as well as the history of travel and tourism.
Research areas
- Australian cultural history
- Nationalism and national identity
- History of travel and tourism
- Cooee: its rise and fall (contracted with Melbourne University Publishing, for publication 2006)
- Driving to Australia: overland journeys between Europe and Australia 1888-1972
Australian history generally – particularly cultural history, nationalism and travel – and the history of travel and tourism.
Selected publications
Books
On Holidays: A History of Getting Away in Australia Pluto, Melbourne, 2005 (with Sarah-Jane Ballard, Ingrid Bown, Meredith Lake, Patricia Leehy, Lila Oldmeadow)
Cultural History in Australia University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 2003 Hsu-Ming Teo & Richard White (eds)
Memories and Dreams: Reflections on twentieth-century Australia: Pastiche 2 Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1997 Richard White & Penny Russell (eds)
The Oxford Book of Australian Travel Writing Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1996 Pesman, Ros, David Walker & Richard White (eds)
Pastiche 1: Reflections on Nineteenth Century Australia Allen & Unwin Australia, Sydney 1994 Penny Russell and Richard White (eds)
Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688-1980 Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1981
Articles
‘Adventures in Collaboration: Writing History with Students’ History Australia: journal of the Australian Historical Association 1(2) July 2004
‘National Days and the National Past in Australia’ Australian Cultural History 22, 2003
‘Cooees across the Strand: Australian Travellers in London and the Performance of National Identity’ Australian Historical Studies 32(116) April 2001
'The Retreat from Adventure: Popular Travel Writing in the 1950s' Australian Historical Studies vol 28, no. 109, October 1997
'Australian Identity post 1980: Whatever happened to the Typical Australian?' in P H Peters (ed) [[i||Australian English in a Pluralist Australia: Proceedings of Style Council 95] , Dictionary Research Centre, Macquarie University, 1995
'Getting Civilised: the arrival of the First AIF in Europe, 1915' Australian Studies (London) May 1991
'Sun, Sand and Syphilis: Australian Soldiers and the Orient, Egypt 1914' Australian Cultural History no.9, 1990
'The Soldier as Tourist; The Australian Experience of the Great War' War & Society May 1987
'Motives for Joining Up: Self-Sacrifice, Self-Interest and Social Class 1914-1918' Journal of the Australian War Memorial October 1986
'Bluebells and Fogtown: Australians' First Impressions of England 1860-1940' Australian Cultural History 1986
'A Backwater Awash: The Australian Experience of Americanisation' Theory Culture & Society Spring 1983
'"Combating Cultural Aggression": Australian Opposition to Americanisation' Meanjin October 1980 v.39, Oct 1980
'"The Australian Way of Life"' Historical Studies (now Australian Historical Studies) v.18, Oct 1979
'"Americanisation" and Popular Culture in Australia' Teaching History August 1978 v.12, August 1978