History Lecturer

Law and Society

Sunshine Coast University

90 Sippy Downs Drive, Sippy Downs

AU

4556 Sunshine Coast

mcook1@usc.edu.au

https://www.usc.edu.au/staff/dr-margaret-cook

61 418753546

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

History Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

Disasters in Australia, Gender and Environmental History

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

"A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane River Floods" (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2019).

Artikel

Cook, M. “The entanglement of Cotton in Australia, America and England”, Agricultural History, (Forthcoming Fall, 2021).

Morgan, Ruth A. and Cook, Margaret, “Gender, Environment and History: New Methods and Approaches in Environmental History”. International Review of Environmental History, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 20201. http://doi.org/10.22459/IREH.07.01.2021.

Cook, M. “Emotional Challenges to Masculinity in the 1930s Callide Valley Closer Settlement, Australia’, International Review of Environmental History, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 20201. http://doi.org/10.22459/IREH.07.01.2021.

Spearritt, P. & Cook, M. “Water Forever: Warragamba and Wivenhoe Dams”, special edition on urban water in Australia of Australian Historical Studies, 10.1080/1031461X.2021.1882513

Cook, M. “Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Queensland’s Callide Valley: settlers, patriarchy and environment”. History Australia. Vol 18, Issue 1,2021. http://doi.org./10.1080/14490854.2021.1878911

McKinnon, S. and Cook, M. “Five days of swirling fury: Emotion and memory in newspaper anniversary reports of the 1974 Queensland Floods”. Emotion, Space and Society, 35, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100685

Cook, M. “Perceptions of a ‘Normal’ Climate in Queensland, Australia (1924-34)” in Rural History, 31, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793319000219

Cook, M. “‘Uncle Sam’s Letterbag’: Children’s Involvement in newspaper propaganda in the First World War”. Australian Journal of Popular Culture, 8. No. 2, 2019: 211-228. doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00006_1

Cook, M. “‘It will never happen again’: The Myth of Flood Immunity in Brisbane”, Journal of Australian Studies, 42, 3, 2018: 328-342. doi 10.1080/14443058.2018.1487871
“John Baillie Henderson: A Hydrologist in Colonial Brisbane”, International Review of Environmental History, 4, Issue 1, 2018: 69-92. doi.org/10.22459/IREH.04.01.2018.06

Cook, M. “‘A River with a City Problem, not a City with a River Problem’: Brisbane and its Flood-prone River,” Environment and History, 4. No. 4 (November): 2018: 469-496. doi: 10.3197/096734018X15137949592034

Cook, M. “Vacating the Flood Plain: Urban Property, Engineering and Floods in Brisbane,” Conservation and Society 15, no. 3 (2017): 344-354. doi: 10.4103/cs.cs_16_95.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

McKinnon, S. and Cook, M. (eds.) "Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical approaches to understanding catastrophe" (London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020).