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Professor Alison Bashford

Professor Alison Bashford

Aust. Laureate Fellow (ARC)

BA (Hons, University Medal) PhD, Syd; MA (Cantab)

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

Alison Bashford is Scientia Professor in History and Director of the. She also directs the .ÌęHer workÌęconnects the history of science, global history, and environmental history into new assessments of the modern world, from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Her most recent book is An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family (Random House, 2022), one of The Economist's top books of 2022, and shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, 2023. Alison Bashford has recently focused on the geopolitics of world population, presented in two books: The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population, withÌęJoyce E. Chaplin (Princeton University Press, 2016) and Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth (Columbia University Press, 2014).ÌęBefore taking up her Research Chair at UNSW, Alison Bashford was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Trustee of Royal Museums, Greenwich, UK.ÌęIn 2009-10, she was the Whitlam and Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University’s Department of the History of Science. Alison Bashford is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Australian Academy of Humanities. In May 2018, she presentedÌętheÌęWiles Lectures at Queen's University, Belfast. Alison Bashford was awarded the Dan David Prize for her contribution to the history of health and medicine in 2021.Ìę

Phone
+61 2 93854772
Location
329 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2022
    Bashford A, 2022, An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family, Penguin,
    Books | 2022
    Bashford A, 2022, The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution, University of Chicago Press,
    Books | 2017
    Bashford A, 2017, Quarantine, Macmillan Education UK,
    Books | 2016
    Bashford A; Chaplin JE, 2016, The new worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the principle of population, Princeton University Press
    Books | 2014
    Bashford A, 2014, Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth, Columbia University Press, New York
    Books | 2014
    2014, Pacific Histories, Armitage D; Bashford A, (ed.), Macmillan Education UK,
    Books | 2003
    Bashford A, 2003, Imperial Hygiene A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health, Springer
    Books | 2003
    Bashford A, 2003, Isolation: Places and practices of exclusion,
    Books | 1998
    Bashford A, 1998, Purity and Pollution Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine, Springer
    Books | 1998
    Bashford A, 1998, Purity and Pollution, Palgrave Macmillan UK,
  • Book Chapters | 2021
    Bashford A, 2021, 'Empire in Oceania: Knowing the Sea of Islands', in Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series: Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail, pp. 157 - 171,
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Bashford A, 2019, '‘Population Planning for a Global Middle Class’', in Dejung C; Motadel D; Osterhammel J (ed.), The Global Bourgeoisie: ‹The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire, Princeton University Press, Princeton, pp. 85 - 102,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Bashford A, 2018, 'Population, Geopolitics and International Organizations in the Mid Twentieth Century', in Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series, pp. 167 - 189,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Bashford A, 2018, 'World Population from Eugenics to Climate Change', in Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day, pp. 505 - 519,
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Bashford A, 2018, 'World Population from Eugenics to Climate Change', in Hopwood N; Kassell L; Flemming R (ed.), Reproduction: From Antiquity to the Present Day, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 505 - 520,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Bashford A, 2017, 'Foreword: Eugenics at the Edges of Empire', in Eugenics at the Edges of Empire, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. i - xvii,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Bashford A, 2017, 'Maritime Quarantine: Linking Old World and New World Histories', in Quarantine, Macmillan Education UK, pp. 1 - 12,
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Bashford A, 2017, 'The Pacific Ocean', in Armitage D; Bashford A; Sivasundaram S (ed.), Oceanic Histories, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 62 - 84
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Bashford A, 2016, 'History of Public Health during Colonialism', in International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Academic Press, pp. 13 - 18,
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Bashford A, 2015, 'Population politics since 1750', in McNeill JR; Pomeranz K (ed.), The Cambridge World History, Cambridge University Press, pp. 212 - 236,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Armitage D; Bashford A, 2014, 'Introduction: The Pacific and its Histories', in Pacific Histories, Macmillan Education UK, pp. 1 - 28,
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Bashford A, 2014, 'Introduction', in Global Population, Columbia University Press, pp. 1 - 26,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Bashford A; Hobbins P, 2013, 'Science and medicine', in The Cambridge History of Australia, pp. 263 - 283,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Bashford A; Hobbins P, 2013, 'Science and medicine', in The Cambridge History of Australia, Cambridge University Press, pp. 263 - 283,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Bashford A; MacIntyre S, 2013, 'Introduction', in The Cambridge History of Australia, Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. 1 - 14,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Bashford A; MacIntyre S, 2013, 'Preface', in The Cambridge History of Australia, Cambridge University Press (CUP), pp. xxi - xxvi,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Bashford A; MacIntyre S, 2013, 'Preface', in The Cambridge History of Australia, Cambridge University Press, pp. xxi - xxvi,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Bashford A; MacIntyre S, 2013, 'Preface: The Cambridge History of Australia Vol.2', in Bashford A; Macintyre S (ed.), The Cambridge History of Australia, Cambridge University Press, pp. xxvii - xxxii,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Bashford A; Macintyre S, 2013, 'Preface: The Cambridge History of Australia', in The Cambridge History of Australia, pp. xxi - xxvi,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Bashford A, 2013, 'Commentary: George Knibbs,The Shadow of the World’s Future (1928)', in Robbins L; Sörlin S; Warde P (ed.), The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change, pp. 31 - 39,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Bashford A, 2013, 'Insanity and Immigration Restriction', in Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 14 - 35,
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Bashford A; MacIntyre S, 2011, 'Introduction: The Cambridge History of Australia', in The Cambridge History of Australia, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1 - 12,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Bashford A, 2010, 'Chronology', in The Oxford Handbook of The History of Eugenics,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Bashford A, 2010, 'Epilogue: Where did Eugenics Go?', in Bashford A; Levine P (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of The History of Eugenics, Oxford University Press,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Bashford A, 2010, 'Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Eugenics', in Bashford A; Levine P (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of The History of Eugenics, Oxford University Press,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Bashford A, 2010, 'The great white plague turns alien: Tuberculosis and immigration in Australia, 1901-2001', in Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease, pp. 100 - 122
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Klausen S; Bashford A, 2010, 'Fertility Control: Eugenics, Neo-Malthusianism, and Feminism', in The Oxford Handbook of The History of Eugenics,
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Levine P; Bashford A, 2010, 'Introduction: Eugenics and the Modern World', in Bashford A; Levine P (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics, Oxford University Press,
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Burns A; Richards JC, 2009, 'Introduction', in Burns A; Richards JC (ed.), The Cambridge guide to second language teacher education, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 1 - 8,
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Bashford A, 2008, 'The History of Public Health During Colonialism', in International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Academic Press, pp. 398 - 404,
    Book Chapters | 2007
    Bashford A, 2007, 'Medicine, Gender, and Empire', in Gender and Empire,
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Bashford A, 2006, ''The age of universal contagion': History, disease and globalization', in Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present, pp. 1 - 17,
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Convery I; Welshman J; Bashford A, 2006, 'Where is the border?: Screening for tuberculosis in the United Kingdom and Australia, 1950-2000', in Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850 to the Present, pp. 97 - 115,
    Book Chapters | 2003
    Bashford A; Strange C, 2003, 'Isolation and exclusion in the modern world: An introductory essay', in Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion, pp. 1 - 18,
    Book Chapters | 2003
    Bashford A, 2003, 'Cultures of confinement: Tuberculosis, isolation and the sanatorium', in Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion, pp. 125 - 140,
    Book Chapters | 2003
    Bashford A, 2003, 'Vaccination: Foreign Bodies, Contagion and Colonialism', in IMPERIAL HYGIENE: A CRITICAL HISTORY OF COLONIALISM, NATIONALISM AND PUBLIC HEALTH, PALGRAVE, pp. 14 - +,
    Book Chapters |
    Bashford A; Strange C, 'Isolation and exclusion in the modern world', in Isolation, Taylor & Francis, pp. 1 - 20,
    Book Chapters |
    Bashford A, 'Insanity and Immigration Restriction', in Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World, Palgrave Macmillan,
  • Edited Books | 2017
    Bashford A; Armitage D; Sivasundaram S, (eds.), 2017, Oceanic Histories, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
    Edited Books | 2016
    Bashford A, (ed.), 2016, Quarantine: Local and Global Histories, Palgrave, Basingstoke,
    Edited Books | 2014
    Bashford A; Armitage D, (ed.), 2014, Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People, Palgrave Macmillan
    Edited Books | 2011
    Bashford A; Macintyre S, (ed.), 2011, The Cambridge history of Australia, Cambridge University Press,
    Edited Books | 2010
    Bashford A; Levine P, (ed.), 2010, The Oxford Handbook of The History of Eugenics, Oxford University Press,
    Edited Books | 2006
    Bashford A, (ed.), 2006, Medicine at the border: Disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present,
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Bashford A, 2023, 'Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus by Charlotte Sussman', Eighteenth-Century Studies, 56, pp. 488 - 490,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Bashford A, 2023, 'The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics', Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 263, pp. 125 - 169,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Jefferies R; Barratt T; Huang C; Bashford A, 2023, 'Regulating Movement in Pandemic Times', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 20, pp. 633 - 638,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Barratt T; Bashford A, 2022, 'Lines of Hygiene: Pandemic Border Control in Australia, 1919', Australian Historical Studies, 53, pp. 284 - 307,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Bashford A, 2022, 'Malthus and gender', Australian Economic History Review, 62, pp. 198 - 210,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Bashford A; Chakrabarti P; Hore J, 2021, 'Towards a modern history of Gondwanaland', Journal of the British Academy, 9s6, pp. 5 - 26,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Bashford A, 2021, 'The Family of Man: Cosmopolitanism and the Huxleys, 1850-1950', Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 12, pp. 359 - 359,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Bashford A, 2021, 'The family of man: Cosmopolitanism and the huxleys, 1850–1950', Humanity, 12, pp. 87 - 102,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Bashford A, 2021, 'World History and the Tasman Sea', American Historical Review, 126, pp. 922 - 948,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Bashford A; Kelly D; Fennell S, 2020, 'Malthusian Moments: Introduction', Historical Journal, 63, pp. 1 - 13,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Bashford A, 2020, 'Beyond Quarantine Critique', Somatosphere,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Bashford A, 2020, 'Malthus and China', Historical Journal, 63, pp. 63 - 89,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Bashford A, 2019, 'On nations and states: a reflection on ‘Thinking the Empire Whole’', History Australia, 16, pp. 638 - 641,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Bashford A, 2018, 'Deep Genetics: Universal History and the Species', History and Theory, 57, pp. 313 - 322
    Journal articles | 2018
    Morieux R; Anderson C; Lamb J; Armitage D; Bashford A; Sivasundaram S, 2018, 'Oceanic Histories: A Roundtable', Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 19,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Otter C; Bashford A; Brooke JL; Jonsson FA; Kelly JM, 2018, 'Roundtable: The anthropocene in British History', Journal of British Studies, 57, pp. 568 - 596,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Bashford A, 2017, 'Terraqueous histories', Historical Journal, 60, pp. 253 - 272,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Bashford A; Hobbins P; Clarke A; Frederick UK, 2016, 'Geographies of commemoration: Angel Island, San Francisco and North Head, Sydney', Journal of Historical Geography, 52, pp. 16 - 25,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Bashford A; Hobbins P, 2015, 'Rewriting Quarantine: Pacific History at Australia's Edge', Australian Historical Studies, 46, pp. 392 - 409,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Bashford A, 2015, 'Bioscapes: Gendering the global history of medicine', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 89, pp. 690 - 695,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Bashford A, 2014, 'Global Population', ,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Bashford A, 2014, 'Immigration restriction: Rethinking period and place from settler colonies to postcolonial nations', Journal of Global History, 9, pp. 26 - 48,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Bashford A, 2014, 'Made to do business in', TLS - The Times Literary Supplement, pp. 22 - 23
    Journal articles | 2014
    Bashford A, 2014, 'TEN CITIES THAT MADE AN EMPIRE', TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, pp. 22 - 23,
    Journal articles | 2014
    McAdam J; Bashford A, 2014, 'The Right to Asylum: Britain’s 1905 Aliens Act and the Evolution of Refugee Law', Law and History Review, 32, pp. 309 - 350,
    Journal articles | 2013

    Bashford A, 2013, 'The anthropocene is modern history: Reflections on climate and Australian deep time', Australian Historical Studies, 44, pp. 341 - 349,

    Journal articles | 2012
    Bashford A; Gilchrist C, 2012, 'The Colonial History of the 1905 Aliens Act', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40, pp. 409 - 437,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Bashford A; Tracy SW, 2012, 'Introduction: Modern airs, waters, and places', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 86, pp. 495 - 514,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Bashford A, 2012, 'Anticolonial climates: Physiology, ecology, and global population, 1920s-1950s', Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 86, pp. 596 - 626,
    Journal articles | 2012
    Bashford A, 2012, 'Malthus and colonial history', Journal of Australian Studies, 36, pp. 99 - 110,
    Journal articles | 2011
    Bashford A, 2011, 'Book notice: Ed Cohen: A body worth defending: Immunity, biopolitics, and the apotheosis of the modern body.', Metascience, 21, pp. 501 - 502,
    Journal articles | 2010
    Bashford A, 2010, 'Living with tuberculosis: the prehistory of HIV/AIDS.', Lancet, 375, pp. 1774 - 1775,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Bashford A, 2008, 'Population, geopolitics, and international organizations in the mid twentieth century', Journal of World History, 19, pp. 327 - 347,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Bashford A, 2008, 'World population and Australian land: Demography and sovereignty in the twentieth century (vol 38, pg 130, 2007)', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 39, pp. 2 - 2,
    Journal articles | 2008
    Bashford A, 2008, 'World population, world health and security: 20th century trends', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 62, pp. 187 - 190,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Bashford A; Strange C, 2007, 'Thinking historically about public health', Medical Humanities, 33, pp. 87 - 92,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Bashford A, 2007, 'Nation, empire, globe: The spaces of population debate in the interwar years', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 49, pp. 170 - 201,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Bashford A, 2007, 'World population and Australian land: Demography and sovereignty in the twentieth century', Australian Historical Studies, 38, pp. 211 - 227,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Bashford A, 2006, 'Global biopolitics and the history of world health', History of the Human Sciences, 19, pp. 67 - 88,
    Journal articles | 2006
    Welshman J; Bashford A, 2006, 'Tuberculosis, migration, and medical examination: Lessons from history', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60, pp. 282 - 284,
    Journal articles | 2004
    Bashford A; Strange C, 2004, 'Public pedagogy: Sex education and mass communication in the mid-twentieth century', Journal of the History of Sexuality, 13, pp. 71 - 99,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Bashford A; Strange C, 2002, 'Asylum-seekers and national histories of detention', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48, pp. 509 - 527,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Bashford A, 2002, 'At the border contagion, immigration, nation', Australian Historical Studies, 33, pp. 344 - 358,
    Journal articles | 2002
    Hooker C; Bashford A, 2002, 'Diphtheria and Australian public health: Bacteriology and its complex applications, c. 1890-1930', Medical History, 46, pp. 41 - 64,
    Journal articles | 2000
    Bashford A, 2000, ''Is White Australia possible?' Race, colonialism and tropical medicine', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23, pp. 248 - 271,
    Journal articles | 1999
    Bashford A, 1999, 'Epidemic and governmentality: Smallpox in Sydney, 1881', Critical Public Health, 9, pp. 301 - 316,
    Journal articles | 1998
    Bashford A, 1998, 'Quarantine and the imagining of the Australian nation', Health, 2, pp. 387 - 402,
    Journal articles | 1997
    Bashford A, 1997, 'Starch on the collar and sweat on the brow: Self sacrifice and the status of work for nurses', Journal of Australian Studies, 21, pp. 67 - 80,
    Journal articles | 1993
    Bashford A, 1993, 'Frances Gillam Holden and the children’s hospital dispute, 1887: Woman’s sphere, feminism and nursing', Women's History Review, 2, pp. 319 - 330,
  • Other | 2020
    Bashford A, 2020, ‘Pandemics and Borders‘ Scrolls and Leaves Podcast, Season 1, Episode 1 Featuring Alison Bashford, ,
  • Media | 2021
    McAdam J; Bashford A; Jefferies R, 2021, Will NSW’s Opening Up to International Travel Lead to Internal Borders Closing Down?,

Alison Bashford is currently Chief Investigator on the following projects

  • Australian Research Council, Laureate Fellowship, 2020-26,Population Policy in Modern World History: Challenges from the Asia Pacific
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2021-25, Antipodean Geology: A Modern History of Southern Hemisphere Earth with Alessandro Antonello (Flinders), Pratik Chakrabarti (Manchester), Saul Dubow (Cambridge), Greg Cushman (Kansas)
  • Australian Research Council, Strategic Research Initiative, 2020-23, Rethinking Medico-Legal Border Control: From international to internal histories, with Jane McAdam (UNSW Law)
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2019-21, The Huxleys and Global Science

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Shortlist, the Cundill History Prize (2023) forÌęTheÌęHuxley's

Dan David Prize for the History of Health and Medicine (2021)

The Royal Society of New South Wales Medal for the History of Science (2020)

The Cantemir Prize (2011)

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Books

A. Bashford, (Allen Lane, London, 2022). Published in the US as The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

A. Bashford and J.E. Chaplin, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Re-reading the Principle of Population (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016). Chinese translation forthcoming,ÌęThe Commercial Press: Beijing, 2020.

A. Bashford, Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).

A. Bashford and C. Strange, Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).

A. Bashford, Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Second edn. 2014.

A. Bashford, Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment and Victorian Medicine (London: Macmillan, 1998).

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Books Edited

A. Bashford, E. M. Kern and A. Bobbette (Des),(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023).

D. Armitage, A. Bashford, S. Sivasundaram (eds), Oceanic Histories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).Ìę

A. Bashford, Quarantine: Local and Global Histories (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016)

D. Armitage and A. Bashford, Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014).

A. Bashford and S. Macintyre, The Cambridge History of Australia, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

A. Bashford and P. Levine, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).

A. Bashford, Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security from 1850 to the Present (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006). Second edn. 2014.

A. Bashford and C. Strange, Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion (London: Routledge, 2003).

A. Bashford and C. Hooker, Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (London: Routledge, 2001). Second edition: Contagion: Epidemics, history and culture from smallpox to anthrax (Sydney: Pluto Press, 2003).

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Special Issues

A. Bashford, S. Fennell, D. Kelly (eds), ‘Malthusian Moments’, The Historical Journal, Inaugural Special Issue. 2019 online.

A. Bashford and S.W. Tracy (eds), ‘Modern Airs, Waters, and Places.’ Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Special issue: 86, 4, Winter 2012.

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Articles and review essays

A. Bashford, 'The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics',ÌęPast & Present, 2023 (online advance).

A.Bashford, 'Malthus and Gender',ÌęAustralian Economic History Review, 62, 3 (2022): 198-210.

C.C. Huang andÌęA.Bashford, 'Vaccine Requirements Predate theÌęCOVID Pandemic by More than a Century',ÌęMigration Policy,Ìę6 April 2022.

A.Bashford,Ìę P. Chakrabarti, J. Hore, 'Towards a Modern History of Gondwanaland',ÌęJournal of the British AcademyÌę9(s1) (2021)

A. Bashford,ÌęÌę'World History and the Tasman Sea',ÌęAmerican Historical Review,Ìę126, 3 (2021): 922-948;

A. Bashford, ‘The Family of Man: Cosmopolitanism and the Huxleys’, Humanity (2021). Special issue ‘Cosmopolitanism’ ed. Valeska Huber.

A. Bashford, ‘Malthus and China’, The Historical Journal (2019): 1-27 online.

A.Bashford, D. Kelly, S. Fennell, ‘Malthusian Moments: Introduction’, The Historical Journal (2019): 1-13 online.

A. Bashford, ‘Deep Genetics: Universal History & the Species’, History and Theory, 57, 2 (2018): 313-22.

A. Bashford, ‘Terraqueous Histories’, The Historical Journal, 60, 1 (2017): 1–20.

A. Bashford, P. Hobbins, A. Clarke, U. Frederick, ‘Geographies of Commemoration: Angel Island, San Francisco and North Head, Sydney’, Journal of Historical Geography, 52 (2016): 15–25.

A. Bashford, ‘Bioscapes: Gendering the Global History of Medicine’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 89 (2015): 690–95.

A. Bashford and P. Hobbins, ‘Rethinking Quarantine: Pacific History at Australia’s Edge’, Australian Historical Studies, 46, 3 (2015): 392–409.

A. Bashford and J. McAdam, ‘The Right to Asylum: The 1905 Aliens Act and the Evolution of Refugee Law,’ Law and History Review, 32, 2 (2014): 309–50.

A. Bashford, ‘Immigration Restriction: Rethinking Period and Place from Settler Colonies to Postcolonial Nations’, Journal of Global History, 9, 1 (2014): 26–48.

A. Bashford, ‘The Anthropocene is Modern History: Reflections on Climate and Australian Deep Time,’ Australian Historical Studies, 44 (2013): 341–49.

A. Bashford, ‘Anti-Colonial Climates: Physiology, Ecology, and Global Population, 1920s–50s’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 86 (2012): 595–626.

A. Bashford and C. Gilchrist, ‘The Colonial History of the 1905 Aliens Act’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40 (2012): 409–37.

A. Bashford, ‘Malthus and Colonial History’, Journal of Australian Studies, 36 (2012): 99–110.

A. Bashford, ‘Living with Tuberculosis: The Prehistory of HIV/AIDS’, The Lancet, 375, no. 9728 (2010): 1774­–75.

A. Bashford, ‘Population, Geopolitics and International Organizations in the Mid Twentieth Century’, Journal of World History, 19 (2008): 327–47. Translated and republished. ‘População, Geopolitica e organizaçoes internacionais em meados do sĂ©culo XX’, Miguel Bandeira JerĂłnimo, JosĂ© Pedro Monteiro (orgs), Os Passados do Presente. Internacionalismo, imperialismo e a construção do mundo contemporĂąneo (Almedina: Coimbra, 2015), 271–94.

A. Bashford, ‘World Population, World Health and Security: 20th century trends’, Journal of Epidemiology and Population Health, 62 (2008): 187–90.

A. Bashford, ‘World Population and Australian Land: Demography and Sovereignty in the Twentieth Century’, Australian Historical Studies, 130 (2007): 211–27.

A. Bashford, ‘Nation, Empire, Globe: The Spaces of Population Debate in the Interwar Years’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 49 (2007): 170–201.

A. Bashford and C. Strange, ‘Thinking Historically about Public Health’, Medical Humanities 33 (2007): 87–92.

A. Bashford, ‘Global Biopolitics and the History of World Health’, History of the Human Sciences, 19 (2006): 67–88.

A. Bashford and J. Welshman, ‘Tuberculosis, Migration, and Medical examination: Lessons from History’, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60 (2006): 282–84.

A. Bashford and B. Power, ‘Immigration and Health: Law and Regulation in Australia, 1958-2004’, Health and History, 7, no. 1 (2005): 86-101.

A. Bashford and S. Howard, ‘Immigration and Health: Law and Regulation in Australia, 1901-1958’, Health and History, 6, no. 1, (2004): 97-112.

A. Bashford and C. Strange, ‘Public Pedagogy: Sex Education and Mass Communication in the Mid Twentieth Century’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 13 (2004): 71–99.

A. Bashford, ‘At the Border: Contagion, Immigration, Nation’, Australian Historical Studies, 120 (2002): 344–58.

A. Bashford, ‘Tuberculosis and Economy: Public Health and Labour in the Early Welfare State’, Health and History, 4, no. 2 (2002): 19–40.

A. Bashford and C. Hooker, ‘Diphtheria and Australian Public Health: Bacteriology and its Complex Applications, 1890-1930’, Medical History, 46 (2002): 41–64.

A. Bashford and C. Strange, ‘Asylum-seekers and National Histories of Detention’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48 (2002): 509-27.

A. Bashford, ‘Domestic Scientists: The Negotiation of Science and Gender in Early Twentieth Century Nursing’, Journal of Women’s History, 12 (2000): 127–46.

A. Bashford, ‘ “Is White Australia Possible?” race, colonialism and tropical medicine in the early twentieth century’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23 (2000): 112–35.

A. Bashford, ‘Epidemic and Governmentality: Smallpox in Sydney, 1881’, Critical Public Health, 12 (1999): 301–16.

A. Bashford, ‘Quarantine and the Imagining of the Australian Nation’, Health, 2 (1998): 387–402.

A. Bashford, ‘Female Bodies at Work: Gender and the Re-forming of Colonial Hospitals’, Australian Cultural History, 13 (1994): 65–81.

A. Bashford, ‘Frances Gillam Holden and the Children’s Hospital Dispute, 1887: Woman’s Sphere, Feminism and Nursing’, Women’s History Review, 2 (1993): 319–30.

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Chapters

A. Bashford, ‘Empire in Oceania: Knowing the Sea of Islands’ in Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail, Douglas Hamilton and John Macaleer (eds). (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

A. Bashford, ‘Population Planning for a Global Middle Class’ in Christof Dejung, JĂŒrgen Osterhammel, David Motadel (eds), The Global Bourgeoisie:‹The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019), 85–101.

A. Bashford, ‘World Population from Eugenics to Climate Change’ in Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming and Lauren Kassell (eds), Reproduction: From Antiquity to the Present Day (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 505–520.

A. Bashford, ‘The Pacific Ocean’ in David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram (eds), Oceanic Histories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 62‑84.

A. Bashford, ‘History of Public Health during Colonialism’ in S.R. Quah and W.C. Cockerham (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2nd edition, vol. 4, (Oxford: Academic Press, 2017), 13–18.

A. Bashford, ‘Maritime Quarantine: Linking old world and new world histories’, in Alison Bashford (ed.), Quarantine: local and global histories (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016), 1–14.

A. Bashford and J.E. Chaplin, ‘Malthus and the new world’ in Robert J. Mayhew (ed.), New Perspectives on Malthus (Cambridge University Press, 2016), 105–127.

A. Bashford, ‘Population Politics since 1750’ in Kenneth Pomeranz and John McNeill (eds), The Cambridge World History, vol. 7 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 212–236.

A. Bashford, ‘Panic’s Past and Global Futures’ in Robert Peckham (ed.), Empires of Panic: Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties (Hong Kong University Press, 2014).

A. Bashford, ‘George Knibbs’, in Libby Robin, Sverker Sþrlin, and Paul Warde (eds), The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013).

A. Bashford, ‘Insanity and Immigration Restriction’ in Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland (eds) Migration, Health, and Ethnicity in the Modern World (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013), 14–35.

A. Bashford and P. Hobbins, ‘Science and Medicine in Twentieth Century Australia’, in Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre (eds) Cambridge History of Australia vol. 2 (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 263–83.

A. Bashford, ‘Julian Huxley’s Transhumanism’, in Marius Turda (eds) Crafting Humans: from genesis to eugenics and beyond (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), 153–68.

A. Bashford, ‘Karl Haushofer’s Geopolitics of the Pacific Ocean’, in Kate Fullager (ed.) The Atlantic World in a Pacific Field: Effects and Transformation since the Eighteenth Century (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2012), 120–43.

A. Bashford, ‘The Great White Plague Turns Alien: tuberculosis and immigration in Australia 1901-2001’ in M. Worboys and F. Condrau (eds), Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease (Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 2010), 100–122.

A. Bashford, ‘Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Eugenics’ in A. Bashford and P. Levine (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 154–72.

A. Bashford, ‘Where Did Eugenics Go?’ in A. Bashford and P. Levine (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 539–58.

A. Bashford, ‘Australasia and Oceania’ in H. Cook, A. Hardy and S. Bhattacharya (eds), History and the Social Determinants of Health (Delhi: Orient Longman, 2008), 9–26.

A. Bashford, ‘The Age of Universal Contagion: history, disease and globalization’ in A. Bashford (ed.) Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006), 1-19.

A. Bashford, I. Convery and J. Welshman, ‘Where is the Border? Tuberculosis Screening in Australia and the UK 1950-2000’ in A. Bashford (ed.) Medicine at the Border: Disease, globalization and security, (Basingstoke: Palgrave), 97-115.

A. Bashford, ‘Gender, Medicine and Empire’ in Philippa Levine (ed.) Gender and Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 112–33.

A. Bashford, ‘Cultures of Confinement: tuberculosis, isolation and the sanatorium’ in C. Strange and A. Bashford (eds) Isolation: places and practices of exclusion, (London: Routledge, 2003), 133–50.

A. Bashford and C. Strange. ‘Isolation and exclusion in the Modern World: an Introductory Essay’ in C. Strange and A. Bashford (eds) Isolation: places and practices of exclusion, (Routledge, 2003), 1–20.

A. Bashford and C. Hooker, ‘Disinfecting Mail – from smallpox to anthrax’ in A. Bashford and C. Hooker (eds) Contagion: Epidemics, history and culture from smallpox to anthrax, (Pluto Press, 2003), 226–31.

A. Bashford, ‘Foreign Bodies: vaccination, contagion and colonialism in the nineteenth century’ in A. Bashford and C. Hooker (eds) Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (London: Routledge, 2001), 39–60.

A. Bashford and M. Nugent, ‘Leprosy and the Management of Race and Sexuality’ in A. Bashford and C. Hooker (eds) Contagion (London: Routledge, 2001), 106–28.

A. Bashford, ‘Separatist Health: Meanings of Women’s Hospitals, c. 1870-1930’ in L. R. Furst (ed.), Climbing a Long Hill: Women Healers and Physicians (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997), 198–220.

Comments and Roundtables

A.Bashford, Ìę‘Pandemic Narratives and the Historian’, Los Angeles Review of Books,Ìę18 May 2020.

A.Bashford, ‘Beyond Quarantine Critique’, Somatosphere,Ìę6 March 2020.

A. Bashford, ‘On nations and states: a reflection on ‘Thinking the Empire Whole’, History Australia. 2019. .

C. Otter, A. Bashford, J.L. Brooke, F.A. Jonsson, J.M. Kelly, ‘The Anthropocene in British History,’ Journal of British Studies 57(2018): 1–29.

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