Edited Books

A. Bashford, E.M. Kern, A. Bobbette (eds), New Earth Histories: Geo-cosmologies and the making of the modern world (University of Chicago Press, 2023).

D. Armitage, A. Bashford, S. Sivasundaram (eds), Oceanic Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2017). 

A. Bashford, Quarantine: Local and Global Histories (Palgrave, 2016).

D. Armitage and A. Bashford, Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People (Palgrave, 2014).

A. Bashford and S. Macintyre, The Cambridge History of Australia, 2 vols (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

A. Bashford and P. Levine, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford University Press, 2010).

A. Bashford, Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security from 1850 to the Present (Palgrave, 2006). Second edn. 2014.

A. Bashford and C. Strange, Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion (Routledge, 2003).

A. Bashford and C. Hooker, Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2001). Second edition: Contagion: Epidemics, history and culture from smallpox to anthrax (Sydney: Pluto Press, 2003). 

Special Issues

A. Bashford, S. Fennell, D. Kelly (eds), “Malthusian Moments.” The Historical Journal, Inaugural Special Issue. 2019 online.

A. Bashford and S.W. Tracy (eds), “Modern Airs, Waters, and Places.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Special issue: 86, 4, Winter 2012. 

Articles

A. Bashford, “The New Modern Synthesis: E.O. Wilson and Julian Huxley,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 55, no.1 (2025). 

C.C. Huang and A. Bashford, “Maritime Geographies and the Borders of Disease: Three Historical Precedents of Quarantined Vessels,” International Journal of Maritime History, 37, no. 1 (2025).

T. Barratt-Young and A. Bashford, “Contraceptive sterilisation: private practice, tubal ligation and vasectomy in twentieth-century Australia,” Medical History (2025): 1–18.

A. Bashford, “The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics,” Past & Present, 263, Issue 1 (2024): 125–169.

A. Bashford, “Lionel Penrose and the Geometry of the Hand,” The Lancet, 403 (May 18, 2024): 1978–79.

A. Bashford, “Malthus and Gender,” Australian Economic History Review, 62, 3(2022): 198–210.

T. Barratt and A. Bashford, “Lines of Hygiene: Pandemic Border Control in Australia, 1919,” Australian Historical Studies, 53 (2022): 284­–307.

Chi Chi Huang and A. Bashford, “Vaccine Requirements Predate the COVID-19 Pandemic by More than a Century,” Migration Policy, 6 April 2022.

A. Bashford, “World History and the Tasman Sea,” American Historical Review 126, no. 3 (2021): 922–948. 

A. Bashford, P. Chakrabarti, J. Hore, “Towards a Modern History of Gondwanaland,” Journal of the British Academy, 9 (s6) (2021): 5–26.

A. Bashford, “The Family of Man: Cosmopolitanism and the Huxleys, 1850-1950,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development, 12, no. 1 (Spring 2021), Special issue on ‘Cosmopolitanism’ ed. Valeska Huber. 

A. Bashford, “Malthus and China,” The Historical Journal, 63, special issue 1 (February 2020): 63–89.  

A. Bashford, D. Kelly, S. Fennell, “Malthusian Moments: Introduction,” The Historical Journal, 63, special issue 1, (2020): 1-13

A. Bashford, “Terraqueous Histories,” The Historical Journal, 60, no. 1 (2017): 1–20.

A. Bashford, P. Hobbins, A. Clarke, U. Frederick, “Geographies of Commemoration: Angel Island, San Francisco and North Head, Sydney,” Journal of Historical Geography, 52 (2016): 15–25.

A. Bashford, “Bioscapes: Gendering the Global History of Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 89 (2015): 690–95. Response to Mark Harrison.

A. Bashford and P. Hobbins, “Rethinking Quarantine: Pacific History at Australia’s Edge,” Australian Historical Studies, 46, no. 3 (2015): 392–409.

A. Bashford and J. McAdam, “The Right to Asylum: The 1905 Aliens Act and the Evolution of Refugee Law,” Law and History Review, 32, no. 2 (2014): 309–50.

A. Bashford, “Immigration Restriction: Rethinking Period and Place from Settler Colonies to Postcolonial Nations,” Journal of Global History, 9, no. 1 (2014): 26–48.

A. Bashford, “The Anthropocene is Modern History: Reflections on Climate and Australian Deep Time,” Australian Historical Studies, 44 (2013): 341–49.

A. Bashford, “Anti-Colonial Climates: Physiology, Ecology, and Global Population, 1920s–50s,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 86 (2012): 595–626.

A. Bashford and C. Gilchrist, “The Colonial History of the 1905 Aliens Act,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 40 (2012): 409–37.

A. Bashford, “Malthus and Colonial History,” Journal of Australian Studies, 36 (2012): 99–110.

A. Bashford, “Living with Tuberculosis: The Prehistory of HIV/AIDS,” The Lancet, 375, no. 9728 (2010): 1774­–75.

A. Bashford, “Population, Geopolitics and International Organizations in the Mid Twentieth Century,” Journal of World History, 19 (2008): 327–47. Translated and republished. “População, Geopolitica e organizaçoes internacionais em meados do século XX,” Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, José Pedro Monteiro (orgs), Os Passados do Presente. Internacionalismo, imperialismo e a construção do mundo contemporâneo (Almedina: Coimbra, 2015), 271–94.

A. Bashford, “World Population, World Health and Security: 20th century trends,” Journal of Epidemiology and Population Health, 62 (2008): 187–90.

A. Bashford, “World Population and Australian Land: Demography and Sovereignty in the Twentieth Century,” Australian Historical Studies, 130 (2007): 211–27.

A. Bashford, “Nation, Empire, Globe: The Spaces of Population Debate in the Interwar Years”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 49 (2007): 170–201.

A. Bashford and C. Strange, “Thinking Historically about Public Health,” Medical Humanities, 33 (2007): 87–92.

A. Bashford, “Global Biopolitics and the History of World Health,” History of the Human Sciences, 19 (2006): 67–88.

A. Bashford and J. Welshman, “Tuberculosis, Migration, and Medical examination: Lessons from History,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60 (2006): 282–84.

A. Bashford and B. Power, “Immigration and Health: Law and Regulation in Australia, 1958-2004,” Health and History, 7, no. 1 (2005): 86-101.

A. Bashford and S. Howard, “Immigration and Health: Law and Regulation in Australia, 1901-1958,” Health and History, 6, no. 1, (2004): 97-112.

A. Bashford and C. Strange, “Public Pedagogy: Sex Education and Mass Communication in the Mid Twentieth Century,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 13 (2004): 71–99.

A. Bashford, “At the Border: Contagion, Immigration, Nation,” Australian Historical Studies, 120 (2002): 344–58.

A. Bashford, “Tuberculosis and Economy: Public Health and Labour in the Early Welfare State,” Health and History, 4, no. 2 (2002): 19–40.

A. Bashford and C. Hooker, “Diphtheria and Australian Public Health: Bacteriology and its Complex Applications, 1890-1930,” Medical History, 46 (2002): 41–64.

A. Bashford and C. Strange, “Asylum-seekers and National Histories of Detention,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48 (2002): 509-27.

A. Bashford, “Domestic Scientists: The Negotiation of Science and Gender in Early Twentieth Century Nursing,” Journal of Women’s History, 12 (2000): 127–46.

A. Bashford, “ ‘Is White Australia Possible?’ race, colonialism and tropical medicine in the early twentieth century,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23 (2000): 112–35.

A. Bashford, “Epidemic and Governmentality: Smallpox in Sydney, 1881,” Critical Public Health, 12 (1999): 301–16.

A. Bashford, “Quarantine and the Imagining of the Australian Nation,” Health, 2 (1998): 387–402.

A. Bashford, “Female Bodies at Work: Gender and the Re-forming of Colonial Hospitals,” Australian Cultural History, 13 (1994): 65–81.

Chapters in Books

A.Bashford, “Revisiting Disease in Immigration Law: Colonial and Commonwealth Histories” in Emily Gordon, Charles Mitchell and Ian Williams (eds), Epidemics and the Law from Past to Present (London: UCL Press, 2025).

A. Bashford, “Gondwanaland Fictions” in A. Bashford, E. Kern, A. Bobbette (eds), New Earth Histories (University of Chicago Press, 2023), 279–95.

A. Bashford, “The Pacific and the Tasman: A Conversation with Alison Bashford” in K. von Zinnenburg Carroll (ed.), Tupaia, Captain Cook and the Voyage of the Endeavour: A Material History (Bloomsbury, 2023), 56–66.

A. Bashford, “Empire in Oceania: Knowing the Sea of Islands” inDouglas Hamilton and John Macaleer (eds), Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail (Oxford University Press, 2021), 157–171.

A. Bashford, “Population Planning for a Global Middle Class” in Christof Dejung, Jürgen Osterhammel, David Motadel (eds), The Global Bourgeoisie:The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire (Princeton University Press, 2019), 85–101.

A. Bashford, “World Population from Eugenics to Climate Change” in Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming and Lauren Kassell (eds), Reproduction: From Antiquity to the Present Day (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 505–520.

A. Bashford, “The Pacific Ocean” in David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram (eds), Oceanic Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 62‑84.

A. Bashford, “The History of Public Health during Colonialism” in S.R. Quah and W.C. Cockerham (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2nd edition, vol. 4, (Academic Press, 2017), 13–18.

A. Bashford, “Maritime Quarantine: Linking old world and new world histories” in Alison Bashford (ed.), Quarantine: local and global histories (Palgrave, 2016), 1–14.

A. Bashford and J.E. Chaplin, “Malthus and the new world” in Robert J. Mayhew (ed.), New Perspectives on Malthus (Cambridge University Press, 2016), 105–127.

A. Bashford, “Population Politics since 1750” in J.R. McNeill and Kenneth Pomeranz (eds), The Cambridge World History, vol. 7 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 212–236.

A. Bashford, “Panic’s Past and Global Futures” in Robert Peckham (ed.), Empires of Panic: Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties (Hong Kong University Press, 2014).

A. Bashford, “George Knibbs” in Libby Robin, Sverker Sørlin, and Paul Warde (eds), The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change (Yale University Press, 2013).

A. Bashford, “Insanity and Immigration Restriction” in Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland (eds) Migration, Health, and Ethnicity in the Modern World (Palgrave, 2013), 14–35.

A. Bashford and P. Hobbins, “Science and Medicine in Twentieth Century Australia” in Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre (eds) Cambridge History of Australia vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2013), 263–83.

A. Bashford, “Julian Huxley’s Transhumanism” in Marius Turda (ed.) Crafting Humans: From genesis to eugenics and beyond (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013), 153–68.

A. Bashford, “Karl Haushofer’s Geopolitics of the Pacific Ocean” in Kate Fullager (ed.) The Atlantic World in a Pacific Field: Effects and Transformation since the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2012), 120–43.

A. Bashford, “The Great White Plague Turns Alien: tuberculosis and immigration in Australia 1901-2001” in M. Worboys and F. Condrau (eds), Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease (McGill Queens University Press, 2010), 100–122.

A. Bashford, “Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Eugenics” in A. Bashford and P. Levine (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford University Press, 2010), 154–72.

A. Bashford, “Where Did Eugenics Go?” in A. Bashford and P. Levine (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford University Press, 2010), 539–58.

A. Bashford, “Australasia and Oceania” in H. Cook, A. Hardy and S. Bhattacharya (eds), History and the Social Determinants of Health (Orient Longman, 2008), 9–26.

A. Bashford, “The Age of Universal Contagion: history, disease and globalization” in A. Bashford (ed.) Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security (Palgrave, 2006), 1-19.

A. Bashford, I. Convery and J. Welshman, “Where is the Border? Tuberculosis Screening in Australia and the UK 1950-2000” in A. Bashford (ed.) Medicine at the Border: Disease, globalization and security, (Palgrave), 97-115.

A. Bashford, “Gender, Medicine and Empire” in Philippa Levine (ed.) Gender and Empire (Oxford University Press, 2004), 112–33.

A. Bashford, “Cultures of Confinement: tuberculosis, isolation and the sanatorium” in C. Strange and A. Bashford (eds) Isolation: places and practices of exclusion, (Routledge, 2003), 133–50.

A. Bashford and C. Strange. “Isolation and exclusion in the Modern World: an Introductory Essay” in C. Strange and A. Bashford (eds) Isolation: places and practices of exclusion, (Routledge, 2003), 1–20.

A. Bashford and C. Hooker, “Disinfecting Mail – from smallpox to anthrax” in A. Bashford and C. Hooker (eds) Contagion: Epidemics, history and culture from smallpox to anthrax, (Pluto Press, 2003), 226–31.

A. Bashford, “Foreign Bodies: vaccination, contagion and colonialism in the nineteenth century” in A. Bashford and C. Hooker (eds) Contagion (Routledge, 2001), 39–60.

A. Bashford and M. Nugent, “Leprosy and the Management of Race and Sexuality” in A. Bashford and C. Hooker (eds) Contagion (London: Routledge, 2001), 106–28.