Dr Rob Knowles
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (Murdoch), PhD (UQ)
Contact
| Email: | rknowles@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2156 (or +61 2 6773 2156 overseas) |
Areas of Teaching
HIST 328 Europe in War and Peace, 1914 to the present
HIST 324 Ashes to Ashes: Germany 1918-1945
HIST 357/457 Themes in modern European history, 1815-1914
HIST 348/448 Russia: from Kievan Rus to Lenin
Research interests
European history since the French Revolution.
Non-state notions of economy and community; political and social dissent, especially communitarian anarchism; the social history of ideas; ethnographic history.
Publications
Book:
Political Economy from Below: Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840-1914, New York: Routledge, 2004.
Book chapters:
"Tolstoy's Henry George: 'the first step on the rung of the ladder…'", in John Laurent (ed.) Henry George's Legacy in Economic Thought, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2005.
"Kropotkin And Reclus : Geographers, Evolution, and 'Mutual Aid'", in John Laurent (ed.) Evolutionary Economics and Human Nature, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2003.
Refereed Journal articles:
"Human Light: The Mystical Religion of Mikhail Bakunin", The European Legacy, Vol.7, Issue 1, 2002.
"Carlyle, Ruskin, Morris: Work across the 'river of fire'", History of Economics Review, Special Issue in Honour of Ray Petridis, Issue No.34, Summer 2001.
"Political Economy from Below: Communitarian Anarchism as a Neglected Discourse in Histories of Economic Thought", History of Economics Review, No.31 Winter 2000.
Internet publications:
"Research on Anarchism" at http://raforum.apinc.org/mot.php3?id_mot=1547&lang=en
"Anarchy Archives" at:
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/ kropotkin/Knowles.html
Conference papers:
"Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: From Caricature to Portrait", Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, Brisbane, Australia, July 2003. Publication in a book of proceedings is forthcoming.
"'The idea is burdened with the world': an anthropological approach to writing a history of ideas", Biennial Conference of the Australian Historical Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002.
"The United States of Europe: Anarchist notions of nationalism and patriotism 1850-1900", Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, Auckland NZ, July 2001. Refereed and published in Christian Leitz & Joseph Zizek (eds), Writing Europe's Pasts, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History (Auckland, New Zealand, July 2001).
Review in a refereed journal:
Review of French language CD-ROM: 'Bakounine: Oeuvres complètes', produced by the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol.48, No.1, March 2002.