David Day (historian)
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David Day (born 1949, Melbourne) is an Australian historian.
David Day graduated with first-class Honours in History and Political Science from the University of Melbourne and was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College in Cambridge, founding head of History and Political Science at Bond University, official historian of the Australian Customs Service, Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History at University College Dublin, and Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is currently at LaTrobe University in Melbourne.
David Day has written widely on Australian history and the history of the Second World War. Among his many books are Menzies and Churchill at War and a two volume study of Anglo-Australian relations during the Second World War. His prize-winning history of Australia, Claiming a Continent, won the prestigious non-fiction prize in the 1998 South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. An earlier book, Smugglers and Sailors, was shortlisted by the Fellowship of Australian Writers for its Book of the Year Award. John Curtin: A Life was shortlisted for the 2000 NSW Premier's Literary Awards' Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction.
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- 1986: Menzies and Churchill at War
- 1988: The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1939-42
- 1992: Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan, 1942-45
- 1992: Smugglers and Sailors: The Customs History of Australia, 1788-1901
- 1996: Contraband and Controversy: The Customs History of Australia from 1901
- 1996: Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia
- 1999: John Curtin: A Life
- 2001: Chifley
- 2003: The Politics of War
- 2005: Conquest: A New History of the Modern World
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