Published   semiannually
Language(s)   English
     
ISSN   0705-7113
     
Editorial Board

EDITORS

CLARE CORBOULD, School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies, Monash University
MICHAEL ONDAATJE, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
HEATHER NEILSON, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW@ADFA

REVIEW EDITORS

TIMOTHY VERHOEVEN (History and related disciplines), School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies, Monash University
MELISSA HARDIE (Literature and related disciplines), Department of English, University of Sydney

EDITORIAL BOARD

JENNIFER FROST, University of Auckland
PAUL GILES, University of Sydney
IAN GORDON, Department of History, National University of Singapore, Singapore
MARILYN LAKE, University of Melbourne
JANE PARK, University of Sydney
STEPHEN ROBERTSON, University of Sydney
PAUL TAILLON, University of Auckland
IAN TYRRELL, University of New South Wales
SHANE WHITE, University of Sydney

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Editorial correspondence should be addressed to:
Clare Corbould (email: clare.corbould@monash.edu); or
Michael L. Ondaatje (email: Michael.Ondaatje@newcastle.edu.au); or
Heather Neilson (email: h.neilson@adfa.edu.au)

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Australasian Journal of American Studies

Published by the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association

AJAS (ISSN 0705-7113) is the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association.  It is published twice a year, in July and December.

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

The purpose of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association (ANZASA) is to encourage study and research in all aspects of U.S. culture and society.  In addition to publishing this Journal, the Association holds scholarly biennial conferences, supports postgraduate seminars, publishes occasional papers, supports research travel to the United States for postgraduate research candidates and encourages scholarly exchanges between Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

 

July 2014, Vol. 33 No. 1

'AMERICA IN THE 1970s' The Post-Traumatic Decade: New Histories of the 1970s


'AMERICA IN THE 1970s' The Limits of Power? Jimmy Carter's Nuclear Agenda in Pakistan


WINNER OF THE NORMAN HARPER PRIZE 2012 Landslide in the Corn: An Iowan Perspective on Political Campaign Tactics at the 1972 Presidential and Congressional Elections


WINNER OF THE NORMAN HARPER PRIZE 2013 Oil-Shocked: A Microhistory of the First Days of the Energy Crisis,October 16-27, 1973


‘By Right of Discovery’: The Media and the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, 1969-1971


America’s Reception of ‘The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation’


‘Macho Types Wanted’: The Village People, Homophobia, and Representation in 1970s America


The Birth of a New Era: Teaching the 1970s


Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon, Hollywood's South Seas and the Pacific War: Searching for Dorothy Lamour


Remembering the Revolution: Memory, History and Nation Making from Independence to the Civil War, Edited by Michael A. McDonnell, Clare Corbould, Frances M. Clark and W. Fitzhugh Brundage


Colin G. Calloway, Pen and Ink Witchcraft:Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History


Beverly C. Tomek, Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania


David R. Swartz, Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in An Age of Conservatism


Angela Miller and Chris McAuliffe, America: Painting a Nation


SPECIAL FEATURE ANZASA at Fifty


Other Issues

July 2015, Vol. 34 No. 1
December 2014, Vol. 33 No. 2
December 2013, Vol. 32 No. 2
July 2013, Vol. 32 No. 1
December 2012, Vol. 31 No. 2
July 2012, Vol. 31 No. 1
December 2011, Vol. 30 No. 2
July 2011, Vol. 30 No. 1
December 2010, Vol. 29 No. 2
July 2010, Vol. 29 No. 1
December 2009, Vol. 28 No. 2
July 2009, Vol. 28 No. 1
December 2008, Vol. 27 No. 2
July 2008, Vol. 27 No. 1
December 2007, Vol. 26 No. 2
July 2007, Vol. 26, No. 1
December 2006, Vol. 25 No. 2
July 2006, Vol. 25 No. 1
December 2005, Vol. 24 No. 2
July 2005, Vol. 24, No. 1
December 2005, Vol. 24, No. 2