Publications

Ian Tyrrell has been publishing books and articles in Australia and overseas for 30 years.

Stirling Castle, October 2007

PUBLICATIONS:

a) Books:

Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum America, 1800-1860 (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1979)

The Absent Marx: Class Analysis and Liberal History in Twentieth-Century America (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1986)

Woman’s World/Woman’s Empire: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930 (Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina Press, 1991)

True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930 (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999)

Deadly Enemies: Tobacco and its Opponents in Australia (Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 1999).

Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History, ed. Jack Blocker, David Fahey, and Ian Tyrrell, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2003).

Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005)

Transnational Nation: United States History in Global Perspective since 1789 (Basingstoke, Eng.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

b) Selected articles and book chapters:

“Women and Temperance in Antebellum America, 1830-1860,” Civil War History, Vol. 28 (Summer 1982), pp. 128-52

“Drink and Temperance in the Antebellum South: An Overview and Interpretation,” Journal of Southern History, Vol. 48 (November 1982), pp. 485-510.

“International Aspects of the Woman’s Temperance Movement in Australia: The Influence of the American WCTU, 1882-1914,” Journal of Religious History, Vol. 12 (June 1983), pp. 284-304.

“American Exceptionalism in an Age of International History,” American Historical Review, Vol. 96 (October 1991), pp. 1031-55; 1068-72

“Prohibition, American Cultural Expansion, and the New Hegemony in the 1920s: An Interpretation,” Histoire Sociale/Social History, Vol. 27 (November 1994), pp. 413-45

“Peripheral Visions: Californian-Australian Environmental Contacts, c. 1850s-1910,” Journal of World History, Vol. 8 (September 1997), pp. 275-302

“The US Prohibition ‘Experiment’: Myths, History, and Implications,” Addiction, Vol. 92 (No. 11, 1997), pp. 1405-1409

“Making Nations/Making States: American Historians in the Context of Empire,” Journal of American History, Vol. 86 (Dec. 1999), pp. 1015-44

“The Limits of Persuasion: Advertising, Gender and the Culture of Australian Smoking,” Australian Historical Studies, No. 114 (April 2000), pp. 27-47

“The Great Historical Jeremiad: The Problem of Specialization in American Historiography,” History Teacher, Vol. 33 (May 2000), pp. 371-93

“Beyond the View from Euro-America: Environment, Settler Societies and Internationalisation of American History,” in Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (Berkeley, 2002), pp. 168-92

“Modern Environmentalism,” in Roy Rosenzweig and Jean-Christophe Agnew, eds., The Blackwell’s Companion to Post-1945 American History (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2002)

“Rethinking American Empire in the Light of the Events of September 11,” Australasian Journal of American Studies, 21 (December 2002), pp. 76-82

“The Challenge of De-provincializing US History in World War Two,” in
“Internationalizing U.S. History,” ed. Dirk Hoerder, Amerikastudien / American Studies 48.1 (Spring 2003), pp. 41-59

“Acclimatisation and Environmental Renovation: Australian Perspectives on George Perkins Marsh,” Environment and History, 10 (No. 2, May 2004), pp. 153-66

“Historians and Publics in the Early Televisual Age: Academics, Film and the Rise of Television in the 1950s and 1960s,” The Maryland Historian, 30 (Spring 2006), pp. 41-60

“The ‘Nature’ of Environmental History: New Views from the Pacific,” in Pierre Lagayette, ed., Nature et Progrès: Interactions, exclusions et mutations (Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2006), pp. 11-31

“American Exceptionalism and Anti-Americanism,” in Brendon O’Connor, ed., Anti-Americanism: History, Causes, and Themes. Vol. 2: Historical Perspectives (Oxford: Greenwood World Publishing, 2007), 99-117.

“American Exceptionalism and Uneven Global Integration: Pushes Away from the Global Society,” in Bruce Mazlish, Nayan Chanda and Kenneth Weisbrode, eds., The Paradox of a Global USA (Stanford, CA: Stanford U.P. 2007), pp. 64-80

“Public at the Creation: Place, Memory and Historical Practice in the Mississippi Valley Historical Association,” Journal of American History, 94 (June 2007), 19-47.

“Confronting the ‘E’ Word: American Empire and Transnational History,” Australasian Journal of American Studies, vol. 26, July 2007, pp. 41-53.

“Charles and Mary Beard,” in Darity, William A., Jr., International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition. 9 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008, Vol. 1, pp. 268-269.

“Looking Eastward: Pacific and Global Perspectives on American History in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 18 (2007), 41-57.

“Environment, Landscape and History: Gardening in Australia,” Australian Historical Studies, No. 130, October 2007, pp. 389-97.

“Transatlantic Progressivism in Women’s Temperance and Suffrage,” in David Gutzke, ed., Britain and Transnational Progressivism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 134-48.

“Continuities in American Empire: The Nineteenth-Century Inheritance and the Return Of History” in Changes and Continuities: the United States after 9.11, Mei Renyi & Fu Meirong, ed., Beijing: World Affairs Press, 2009.

“Empire in American History,” in Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano, eds, Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), pp. 541-56.

“The Scholarly Odyssey of an Activist Historian: Alan Dawley in Historiography,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (No. 1, 2009), 29-49