About the Author

Alan Atkinson is a historian with postgraduate degrees from the University of Sydney, University of Dublin, Trinity College, and the Australian National University. He has taught at Murdoch University, the University of Western Australia and the University of New England over a period of more than 30 years. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Visiting Fellow at the universities of Cambridge, London and Melbourne and at the Australian National University. Atkinson is the author of Europeans in Australia, volumes I-III (volume III won the Victorian Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History).