Overview
Background
Assoc. Prof’s Andrew Bonnell’s research interests include: Modern German and European history. German cultural and intellectual history in social and political context. History of German Social Democracy.
Assoc. Prof. Bonnell holds a BA (Hons) (Sydney), and a PhD (Sydney). He is currently Associate Professor in History at UQ.
His teaching areas include Modern German history, European intellectual history, European fascism and the radical right, Film and history and Nationalism.
Assoc. Prof. Bonnell’s current research projects include Robert Michels and the political discontents of modernity and aspects of the history of German Social Democracy.
He is also the editor (History), Australian Journal of Politics and History.
Availability
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Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Sydney
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney
Works
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2015
Journal Article
“New Histories of the Origins of the First World War: What Happened to the ‘Primacy of Domestic Politics?’”
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2015). “New Histories of the Origins of the First World War: What Happened to the ‘Primacy of Domestic Politics?’”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 121-127. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12090
2014
Journal Article
Stephen Roberts as a commentator on fascism and the road to war in Europe
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2014). Stephen Roberts as a commentator on fascism and the road to war in Europe. History Australia, 11 (3), 9-30. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2014.11668529
2014
Journal Article
Explaining suicide in the Imperial German Army
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2014). Explaining suicide in the Imperial German Army. German Studies Review, 37 (2), 275-295. doi: 10.1353/gsr.2014.0055
2012
Book
Germans in Queensland: 150 years
Andrew G. Bonnell and Rebecca Vonhoff eds. (2012). Germans in Queensland: 150 years. Germanica Pacifica, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/978-3-653-02741-9
2011
Book
An American witness in Nazi Frankfurt: The diaries of Robert W. Heingartner, 1928-1937
Andrew G. Bonnell ed. (2011). An American witness in Nazi Frankfurt: The diaries of Robert W. Heingartner, 1928-1937. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
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2008
Book
Shylock in Germany: Antisemitism and the German Theatre from The Enlightenment to the Nazis
Bonnell, A. G. (2008). Shylock in Germany: Antisemitism and the German Theatre from The Enlightenment to the Nazis. United Kingdom, United States: Tauris Academic Studies.
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2005
Book
The People's Stage in Imperial Germany: Social Democracy and Culture 1890-1914
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2005). The People's Stage in Imperial Germany: Social Democracy and Culture 1890-1914. London, England: Tauris Academic Studies.
2024
Journal Article
Histories of Fascism and Anti‐Fascism in Australia. Edited by EvanSmith, JaynePersian and Vashti JaneFox (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. xiii + 266. Pb A$59.99, e‐book A$48.59
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2024). Histories of Fascism and Anti‐Fascism in Australia. Edited by EvanSmith, JaynePersian and Vashti JaneFox (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. xiii + 266. Pb A$59.99, e‐book A$48.59. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 70 (1), 158-159. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12965
2023
Journal Article
Franz Mehring was Marx’s first biographer and a Marxist pioneer in his own right
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2023). Franz Mehring was Marx’s first biographer and a Marxist pioneer in his own right. Jacobin.
2023
Journal Article
Marxism is the product of a struggle for political freedom
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2023). Marxism is the product of a struggle for political freedom. Jacobin.
2023
Journal Article
Review of History Wars. The Peter Ryan‐Manning Clark Controversy. By Doug Munro (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021), xxxvi +193 pp., colour and b/w illustrations. e‐book † and pb
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2023). Review of History Wars. The Peter Ryan‐Manning Clark Controversy. By Doug Munro (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021), xxxvi +193 pp., colour and b/w illustrations. e‐book † and pb. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 69 (1), 164-165. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12903
2023
Book
Robert Michels, socialism, and modernity
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2023). Robert Michels, socialism, and modernity. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780192871848.001.0001
2022
Journal Article
Review of Sozialdemokratie in Brandenburg (1868–1933). Lebenswege zwischen Aufbruch, Aufstieg und Abgrund Edited by Willi Carl, Martin Gorholt, and Sabine Hering. Bonn: J.H.W. Dietz, 2021. Pp. 357. Paperback €24.00. ISBN: 978-3801205966
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2022). Review of Sozialdemokratie in Brandenburg (1868–1933). Lebenswege zwischen Aufbruch, Aufstieg und Abgrund Edited by Willi Carl, Martin Gorholt, and Sabine Hering. Bonn: J.H.W. Dietz, 2021. Pp. 357. Paperback €24.00. ISBN: 978-3801205966. Central European History, 55 (4), 615-616. doi: 10.1017/s0008938922001145
2022
Journal Article
Review of Remembering Social Movements: Activism and Memory. Edited by Stefan Berger, Sean Scalmer, and Christian Wicke
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2022). Review of Remembering Social Movements: Activism and Memory. Edited by Stefan Berger, Sean Scalmer, and Christian Wicke. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 68 (1), 140-141. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12836
2022
Journal Article
The historical background to the war in Ukraine
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2022). The historical background to the war in Ukraine. QHistory: Journal of the Queensland History Teachers’ Association, 2022, 11-16.
2021
Journal Article
Anti-semitism, denunciation, and the Frankfurt Trial against Rosa Luxemburg
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2021). Anti-semitism, denunciation, and the Frankfurt Trial against Rosa Luxemburg. European History Quarterly, 51 (3), 345-354. doi: 10.1177/02656914211025485
2021
Journal Article
Review of Catrine Clay, The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2021). Review of Catrine Clay, The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945. Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History (120), 217-219.
2021
Journal Article
Review of The Hitler Conspiracies. The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination. By Richard J.Evans
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2021). Review of The Hitler Conspiracies. The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination. By Richard J.Evans. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 67 (1), 187-189. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12745
2021
Journal Article
Corporate power and academic freedom
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2021). Corporate power and academic freedom. Australian Universities' Review, 63 (1), 19-25. doi: 10.3316/informit.743641901075553
2021
Book Chapter
Painting Queensland Red: Hugo Kunze, transnational print culture and propaganda for socialism
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2021). Painting Queensland Red: Hugo Kunze, transnational print culture and propaganda for socialism. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. (pp. 173-191) edited by Catherine Dewhirst and Richard Scully. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-67330-7_9
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
From the oder and the rhine: Germans in South Australia, 1838-1914
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Doctor Philosophy
"Spiritual Hungary": Self-Representation, National Heritage, and Identity at the Hungarian Australian Cultural Festivals (1969-2017)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Doctor Philosophy
Olgem eestlased, aga saagem ka eurooplasteks: Estonia's experience of European Integration.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Frank Mols
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Doctor Philosophy
From Revolutionary Hopes to Shattered Dreams: the far left in Australia, 1918-1925
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Doctor Philosophy
The Great Chain of Feeing: Humans, Animals and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century England
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dolly MacKinnon
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Doctor Philosophy
Russian and Ukrainian diaspora in Australia: cultural memory, perceptions of identity
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Doctor Philosophy
The Bulgarian participation in the Brest-Litovsk Treaty negotiations
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Doctor Philosophy
Masculinity and the Making of a Nation: Constructions of Indigenous Australian Hyper-Masculinity in 19th Century Queensland
Principal Advisor
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Master Philosophy
Radicalism in the rank-and-file shop committee and assembly movements in Australian trade unions from 1930-1960
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Doctor Philosophy
Königsberg/Kaliningrad: A Contested Site of Memory
Principal Advisor
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Master Philosophy
German Lutheran Leadership in Southeast Queensland During World War 1
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Master Philosophy
A History of the African Diaspora in China (1949-2021): A Challenge to China's Multiculturalism
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Resistance to Learning: How the British Army Kept Losing but Still Won the Napoleonic Wars
Principal Advisor
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The British and the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar Period: Myths and Realities
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Looking to the East? German business involvement in the economic exploitation of the occupied Soviet Union, and the dynamics of the relationship between business and the Reich, (1939-43).
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
'Murtherous-minded strumpets' and 'their wicked Companions quick with Child' at the early modern Home Circuit (1576-1659)
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dolly MacKinnon
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Breaking Hearts and Minds: Germany, National Socialism, and British Subversive Propaganda in the Second World War
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Politics of Forgetting: New Zealand-Greek Wartime Relationship
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Clive Moore
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2015
Master Philosophy
'No troops but the British': British national identity and the Battle for Waterloo
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Spoken through the Press: German-Australian identity and influence during the Kaiserreich
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Clive Moore
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
'For the British soldier is keenly sensitive to honour': Military History, Heroism and British Identities in the Works of William Napier
Principal Advisor
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
James V. Forrestal as cold war policymaker: A re-assessment
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
THE GRAND DECEPTION; WINSTON CHURCHILL'S ROLE IN THE DARDANELLES DISASTER
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
WOMEN OF THE HUNGER YEARS: SURVIVING THE NORMALISATION OF AMERICAN-OCCUPIED NUREMBERG, 1945-1948
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
A SPECIAL GERMAN RESPONSIBILITY: THE NAZI PAST AND THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE GERMAN GREENS, 1980-2004
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
FROM HOPE... TO HOPE: STORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION, FEATURING THE VICTORIAN BRANCH, 1921-1945
Principal Advisor
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
DEFINING THE ENEMY: A STUDY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC
Principal Advisor
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2005
Master Philosophy
VICTIMS AND EXECUTIONS: AMERICAN POLITICAL DISCOURSES ON THE HOLOCAUST FROM LIBERATION TO BITBURG
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
ANARCHISM AS COMMUNITARIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: A NEGLECTED TRADITION
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
SCIENTISTS IN CONFLICT: HANS BETHE, EDWARD TELLER AND THE SHAPING OF UNITED STATES NUCLEAR WEAPONS POLICY, 1945 - 1972
Principal Advisor
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Business Strategies to Overcome Crises after Relocation by Fujian and Zhejiang Capitalists at War: Cases from Yu Mingyu, Liu Hongsheng, and Tan Kah Kee (1937-1949)
Associate Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Dwelling in Shenzhen: Development of Living Environment from 1979 to 2018
Associate Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Imperialism and the evolution of central-provincial relations in late Qing China: Zhang Zhidong in Jiangsu and Hubei
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Zur Berichterstattung der Bildzeitung über die Rote Armee Fraktion von 1970-1977: Eine kritische Inhalts- und Diskursanalyse
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Stephan Atzert
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
The Rise of Hong Kong Identity and Political Mobilisations vis-a-vis China, 1949-1997
Associate Advisor
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2017
Master Philosophy
Under the Wrath of God: Emotional Communities of Plague in Early Modern England, 1631-1638
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dolly MacKinnon
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
The Never-Ending War: Lives of Chinese National Army Soldiers, 1937 - 1987
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Urban Development and Everyday life of Ordinary Labours in Wartime Chongqing
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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2015
Master Philosophy
I mourn for them I loved: Emotions and the material culture of love and loss in eighteenth-century England
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dolly MacKinnon
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2014
Master Philosophy
'God is pleased to be called a man of warre': Religious Violence in the English Civil War, 1642-1646
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Dolly MacKinnon
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
"Berlin from Behind": a History of "Gay" Travel to Inter-War Berlin
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Clive Moore
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
Australian Chinese Legislative Recruitment, Political Incorporation and Representation in the Global Moment (1973-2012)
Associate Advisor
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Christian Identity and Business Success: Lin Zifeng (1892-1971) and his Public Career in Hong Kong
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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2010
Doctor Philosophy
Bring the Bombs out of the Basement:The United States, the NPT, and the sui generis states of India, Pakistan and Israel, 1961-1975.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Martin Crotty
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2010
Doctor Philosophy
Transitional justice and the politics of pragmatism: addressing historical injustices and atrocities through truth commissions - perspectives from the South African TRC and the East Timorese CAVR
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Robert Elson
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
Agitators and Patriots: Cultural and Political Identity in Queensland¿s Spanish Communities, 1900-1975
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Clive Moore
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM ON GERMAN NATIONALS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA 1932-1947
Associate Advisor
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2005
Doctor Philosophy
ON THE BORDERS OF SCIENCE: PSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN GERMANY, C.1870-1939
Associate Advisor
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Master Philosophy
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND SOUTH AFRICA: JUS AD BELLUM, JUS IN BELLO AND THE PROMOTION OF NATIONAL UNITY AND RECONCILIATION ACT (34) 1995
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Robert Elson
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2014
Master Philosophy
Casting a `Cold Light¿? Psychical Research and the Haunting of Popular Culture in Britain, 1918-1948
Joint Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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