
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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2020
Journal Article
Introduction: the revenge of Europe’s past
Bonnell, Andrew G. and Clarke, Amy (2020). Introduction: the revenge of Europe’s past. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 66 (3), 371-376. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12692
2020
Journal Article
Review of Eric Hobsbawm. A Life in History. By Richard J. Evans (London: Little, Brown, 2019)
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2020). Review of Eric Hobsbawm. A Life in History. By Richard J. Evans (London: Little, Brown, 2019). Australian Journal of Politics and History, 66 (1), 174-175. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12658
2020
Journal Article
Review of Lions and Lambs. Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany. By Noah Benezra Strote. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2020). Review of Lions and Lambs. Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany. By Noah Benezra Strote. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. German History, 38 (1), 148-150. doi: 10.1093/gerhis/ghaa007
2020
Journal Article
‘The dice are loaded’: history, solidarity and precarity in Australian universities
Thomas, Amy, Forsyth, Hannah and Bonnell, Andrew G. (2020). ‘The dice are loaded’: history, solidarity and precarity in Australian universities. History Australia, 17 (1), 21-39. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2020.1717350
2020
Journal Article
Approaching the historiography of Nazi Germany
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2020). Approaching the historiography of Nazi Germany. Q-History. The Journal of the Queensland History Teachers’ Association, 2020, 22-26.
2020
Journal Article
The 'Osterley' Germans: socialist working-class migrants in 1910
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2020). The 'Osterley' Germans: socialist working-class migrants in 1910. The Queensland Journal of Labour History (30), 30-36.
2019
Journal Article
Review of Brüder, Bürger und Genossen: Die deutsche Arbeiterbewegung. By Jürgen Schmidt. Bonn: Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachfolger. 2018
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2019). Review of Brüder, Bürger und Genossen: Die deutsche Arbeiterbewegung. By Jürgen Schmidt. Bonn: Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachfolger. 2018. German History, 37 (4), 573-575. doi: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz062
2019
Journal Article
Review of The Good University. What Universities actually do and why it's time for radical change. By Raewyn Connell (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, 2019)
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2019). Review of The Good University. What Universities actually do and why it's time for radical change. By Raewyn Connell (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, 2019). Australian Journal of Politics and History, 65 (3), 497-498. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12605
2019
Journal Article
The Ramsay Centre and 'Western Civilisation' An attempt at historical perspective A reaction to Martin Davies' paper (this issue)
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2019). The Ramsay Centre and 'Western Civilisation' An attempt at historical perspective A reaction to Martin Davies' paper (this issue). Australian Universities Review, 61 (2), 65-71.
2019
Journal Article
Editorial note
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2019). Editorial note. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 65 (2), 354-2. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12575
2019
Journal Article
Review of John Hutchinson, Nationalism and War
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2019). Review of John Hutchinson, Nationalism and War. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 65 (1), 155-157. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12557
2019
Journal Article
Why did Germany lose the First World War?
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2019). Why did Germany lose the First World War?. QHistory. The Journal of the Queensland History Teachers’ Association, 2019 annual issue, 7-11.
2019
Journal Article
Robert Michels and French Socialism and Syndicalism
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2019). Robert Michels and French Socialism and Syndicalism. French History and Civilization, 8, 174-188.
2019
Journal Article
Review of Sabine Hake, The Proletarian Dream: Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany, 1863–1933
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2019). Review of Sabine Hake, The Proletarian Dream: Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany, 1863–1933. European History Quarterly, 49 (1), 127-129. doi: 10.1177/0265691418822189l
2018
Journal Article
Review of Red Saxony: election battles and the spectre of democracy in Germany, 1860-1918
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2018). Review of Red Saxony: election battles and the spectre of democracy in Germany, 1860-1918. European History Quarterly, 48 (2), 382-384. doi: 10.1177/0265691418765637af
2018
Journal Article
Review of The Pursuit of Power. Europe 1815-1914 and To Hell and Back. Europe 1914-1949
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2018). Review of The Pursuit of Power. Europe 1815-1914 and To Hell and Back. Europe 1914-1949. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (1), 156-158. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12442
2018
Journal Article
Review of Roshan Magub, Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis: A Political Biography
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2018). Review of Roshan Magub, Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis: A Political Biography. European History Quarterly, 48 (1), 169-171. doi: 10.1177/0265691417747183t
2018
Book Chapter
Europhobia in the new tory historiography
Bonnell, Andrew (2018). Europhobia in the new tory historiography. Britain in Europe: Prospects for Change. (pp. 207-225) Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780429460661-15
2018
Book Chapter
Social democrats and Germany’s war in South-West Africa, 1904–7: the view of the socialist press
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2018). Social democrats and Germany’s war in South-West Africa, 1904–7: the view of the socialist press. Savage worlds: German encounters abroad, 1798-1914. (pp. 206-229) edited by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press. doi: 10.7765/9781526123411.00015
2018
Journal Article
Nazism and war
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2018). Nazism and war. QHistory. The Journal of the Queensland History Teachers’ Association, 2018 annual issue, 16-25.
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
From Revolutionary Hopes to Shattered Dreams: the revolutionary left in Australia, 1918-1925
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
The Bulgarian participation in the Brest-Litovsk Treaty negotiations
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
Performing the Nation: Practices of Identity Maintenance in the Australian-Hugarian Diaspora
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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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
The Great Chain of Feeing: Humans, Animals and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century England
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Königsberg/Kaliningrad: A Contested Site of Memory
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
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
Masculinity and the Making of a Nation: Constructions of Indigenous Australian Hyper-Masculinity in 19th Century Queensland
Principal Advisor
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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
From Revolutionary Hopes to Shattered Dreams: the revolutionary left in Australia, 1918-1925
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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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
Olgem eestlased, aga saagem ka eurooplasteks: Estonia's experience of European Integration.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Frank Mols
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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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Doctor Philosophy
A History of the African Diaspora in China, 1949-2019
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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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
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Doctor Philosophy
A History of the African Diaspora in China, 1949-2019
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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Doctor Philosophy
A History of the African Diaspora in China, 1949-2019
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
Completed supervision
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2024
Master Philosophy
Radicalism in the rank-and-file shop committee and assembly movements in three Australian trade unions from 1930-1960
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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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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2024
Doctor Philosophy
The Great Chain of Feeing: Humans, Animals and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century England
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
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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2019
Doctor Philosophy
'Murtherous-minded strumpets' and 'their wicked Companions quick with Child' at the early modern Home Circuit (1576-1659)
Principal Advisor
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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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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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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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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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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
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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2017
Master Philosophy
Under the Wrath of God: Emotional Communities of Plague in Early Modern England, 1631-1638
Associate Advisor
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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
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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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2014
Master Philosophy
'God is pleased to be called a man of warre': Religious Violence in the English Civil War, 1642-1646
Associate Advisor
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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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- Social democracy - Germany
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