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Associate Professor David Blaazer

Associate Professor David Blaazer

Professor

BA PhD (La Trobe)

Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

David Blaazer is an historian of modern Britain and Ireland.  His early research was on the non-communist left in Britain and resulted in the publication of The Popular Front and the Progressive Tradition: socialists, liberals and the quest for unity, 1884-1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) and a number of articles on the history of Guild Socialism. He has also published on the Northern Ireland conflict, and on the historiography of globalisation. His more recent work is on the history of money in Britain and Ireland. His book, Forging Nations: Currency, Nationality and Power in Britain and Ireland 1603-1931, appeared with OUP in July 2023. He is now working on the rise and fall of Social Democracy in the UK, especially in relation to monetary ideas and financial markets.

Phone
02 9385 2896
Location
372 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2023
    Blaazer D, 2023, Forging Nations Currency, Power, and Nationality in Britain and Ireland since 1603, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
    Books | 2002
    Blaazer D, 2002, The Popular Front and the Progressive Tradition, Cambridge University Press
  • Book Chapters | 2015
    Blaazer DP, 2015, 'Bloody Sunday: Politics, Truth and Justice in the Widgery and Saville Inquiries', in Lovell DW (ed.), Investigating Operational Incidents in a Military Context: Law, Justice, Politics, edn. International Humanitarian Law Series, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 31 - 49,
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Blaazer DP; Henry RL, 2013, 'UNSW Canberra: a university within a university', in Henry RL; Marshall SJ; Ramburuth P (ed.), Improving Assessment in Higher Education, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 263 - 279,
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Blaazer D, 2023, 'Forging Nations', ,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Blaazer D, 2020, 'Bitcoin in the Longue Duree: Money, the State and Cryptocurrency', AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW, 2020, pp. 196 - 203,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Blaazer D, 2020, 'Review of Money: Myths Truths and Alternatives, by Mary Mellor, and Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists who Built Cryptocurrency, by Finn Brunton', AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW, pp. 251 - 258
    Journal articles | 2016
    Blaazer DP, 2016, 'Mainstreaming money: perspectives on currency in the history of the British Isles', History Australia, 13, pp. 52 - 66,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Blaazer D, 2015, 'Sharks and Shylocks: Englishness and otherness in popular discourse on ‘the City’ 1870–1914', National Identities, pp. 1 - 17,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Blaazer DP, 2014, 'Progressivism: an idea whose time has gone?', Political Studies Review, 12, pp. 6 - 16,
    Journal articles | 2007
    Blaazer DP, 2007, 'Globalization, Markets and Historiographical Perspectives', Journal of Contemporary History, 42(3), pp. 505 - 514
    Journal articles | 2005
    Blaazer DP, 2005, 'Finance and the end of appeasement: The Bank of England, the National Government and the Czech Gold', Journal of Contemporary History, 40, pp. 25 - 40
    Journal articles | 2005
    Blaazer DP, 2005, 'Not Only Patriotism but Self-Interest: War, Money and Finance in British Public Discourse, 1914-1925', War and Society, 23, pp. 1 - 12
    Journal articles | 2002
    Blaazer DP, 2002, 'Sterling Identities', History Today, 52, pp. 12 - 18
    Journal articles | 2000
    Blaazer DP, 2000, 'Guild Socialists After Guild Socialism: the Workers` Control Groups and the House of Industry League', Twentieth Century British History, pp. 135 - 155
    Journal articles | 1999
    Blaazer DP, 1999, 'Devalued and Dejected Britons` : the Pound in Public Discourse in the Mid 1960s', History Workshop Journal, pp. 121 - 140,
    Journal articles | 1999
    Blaazer DP, 1999, 'Reading the Notes : Thoughts on the Meaning of British Paper Money', Humanities Research, 1, pp. 39 - 54
    Journal articles | 1998
    Blaazer DP, 1998, 'Guild Socialism and the Historians', Australian Journal of Politics and History,
    Journal articles | 1995
    Walter J; Collins P; Frances R; Hamersley M; Atkinson A; McLeod J; Bavin‐Mizzi J; Townsend N; Goodman D; Brown‐May A; Johnston K; McGrath A; Ganter R; Byrne PJ; Menghetti D; Garton S; Mitchell AM; Broeze F; Blaazer D; Frawley K, 1995, 'Book reviews', Australian Historical Studies, 26, pp. 487 - 512,
    Journal articles | 1991
    BLAAZER DP, 1991, 'SOCIALISM, RADICALISM, AND NOSTALGIA - SOCIAL CRITICISM IN BRITAIN, 1775-1830 - STAFFORD,W', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 37, pp. 139 - 140,
    Journal articles | 1991
    Blaazer D, 1991, 'Reviews : David Boucher, The Social and Political Thought of R.G. Collingwood (Cambridge University Press, 1989)', Thesis Eleven, 29, pp. 129 - 131,