School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry

Associate Professor Marion Diamond

Honorary Associate Professor in History
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Researcher biography

Associate Professor Marion Diamond's research interests include: Australian colonial history in an international context; the opium trade, and biography.

Associate Professor Diamond holds the following qualifications: BEcon(hons) (Queensland); PhD (Queensland) and is a Reader in History. She currently teaches in the areas of Australian history; European history, and history of European expansion.

Her current research projects include:

  • Colonial Merchants: Australian trade with Asia and the Pacific in the colonial period
  • the pill-pusher and the drug-dealer
  • Walter S. Davidson and his Australian network.

Publications

Book (1)
Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (16)
Research Report (1)
Thesis (1)

Book

Diamond, M. E. (1999). Emigration and Empire: The Life of Maria S. Rye. New York: Garland Publishing.

Book Chapter

Diamond, Marion (2006). 'Another Singapore?': Australia Turns Away From Asia. The GREAT Mistakes of Australian History. (pp. 156-169) edited by M. Crotty and D. A. Roberts. Sydney: UNSW Press.

Journal Articles

Diamond, Marion (2018). Australians in Shanghai: race, rights and nation in treaty port China. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (1), 163-165. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12446
Diamond, Marion (2017). Book review: Alana Piper (ed.), "Brisbane diseased: contagions, cures and controversies". Queensland Review, 24 (1), 169-170. doi: 10.1017/qre.2017.22
Diamond, Marion (2016, 08 29). From bonnets to fez to burkinis, clothing has long made us uneasy
Diamond, Marion (2016). From the collection: in the land of the Bunya. Fryer Folios, 10 (1), 10-11.
Diamond, Marion (2015). Brisbane's rediscovered views. History Australia, 12 (2), 245-246.
Diamond, Marion (2014). (Book review) The ambitions of Jane Franklin: Victorian lady adventurer. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60 (1), 131-132.
Diamond, Marion (2012). In her own words: the writings of Elizabeth Macquarie by Robin Walsh. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 (3), 451-451. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2012.01647.x
Diamond, Marion (2012). Stradbroke: a brief history. Fryer folios, 7 (1), 13-16.
Diamond, Marion (2012). Review of: Death or liberty: Rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788-1868 by Tony Moore. Journal of Australian Studies, 36 (1), 115-116. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2012.648145
Diamond, Marion (2010). Log book of HMS Warspite. Fryer folios, 5 (2), 19-21.
Diamond, M. E. (2003). Australia and the China trade. Maritime Museum of San Diego Mains'l Haul A journal of Pacific Maritime History, 39 (2), 47-55.
Diamond, M. E. (2003). Conrad Martens and the squatting families of the Darling Downs. Queensland Review, 9 (1), 59-65.
Diamond, M. E. (2001). Review of Sally Graham, ed A Man about Town: The Letters of James Graham, Victorian Entrepreneur 1854-1864.. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 47 (3), 415-417.
Diamond, M. E. (2001). Review of Pamela Jean Fulton, ed. The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage from Cork, Ireland to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 47 (3), 415-417.
Diamond, M. E. (1999). Tea and sympathy: foundations of the Australia/China trading networks. Queensland Review, 6 (2), 24-29.
Diamond, Marion (1990). Maria Rye and female emigration: work in progress. Proceedings of the University of Queensland History Research Group, 1, 9-12.

Research Report

Diamond, Marion (2009). Coal in Australian History. Brisbane: The University of Queensland.

Thesis

Diamond, Marion (1981). Charles St. Julian, 1818-1874 : the biography of a colonial visionary. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, The University of Queensland.