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Associate Professor Greg Tobin

Position: Academic Status
Associate Professor, American Studies

Qualifications:
BA (Hons), BEd (Melb), MA (ANU), PhD (Texas)

Teaching:
War in America
The American Civil War
The American West

Main field of interest:
History of the Trans-Mississippi West; social responses to natural disasters, the United States and Australia; immigration history

Contact

Phone Number:	61 8 8201 2106
Fax Number:	61 8 8201 5165
Email:	greg.tobin@flinders.edu.au
Postal Address:	American Studies Department Faculty of Social Sciences Flinders University GPO Box 2100 ADELAIDE. 5001

Publications

Books

The Making of a History: Walter Prescott Webb and 'The Great Plains', University of Texas Press, 1976.

Chapters in Books

"Walter Prescott Webb," in J. Wunder (ed), Historians of the American Frontier (New York: Greenwood Press), 1988

"Australian Immigration History," in Michael Le May (ed), The Keepers of the Gates: Comparative Immigration Policy (New York: Praeger), 1989

Manuscripts in Preparation

The Sea-Divided Gael: A Study of Irish Nationalism in Australia, 1880-1914.

Proud Lucifer: Fire in the South Australian Environment, 1836-1976

Articles

"Landscape, Region and the Writing of History: Walter Prescott Webb in the 1920's", in E. Barry and N.D. Harper, eds., American Studies Down Under, Melbourne 1977. (Reprinted in American Studies International, 16, 1978.)

"The Varieties of Memory: Perspectives on Oregon's Past", Australasian Journal of American Studies, 2, July 1983.