Scientia Prof John Gascoigne

Teaching

Emergence of Modern Europe 1450-1815
Modern Europe: Society and Culture
Britain 1660-1918
The Enlightenment
Science and Government 1750-1945
Victorian Society and Culture
Exploration and Empire: The Pacific and Cultural Contact
Opium of the People: Religion and Western Society, 1450 to the Present
Making History and Historians

Consultation Times
Session One: 2012 Fri.11-12 or by appointment

Publications

(2011) (ed, withHilary Carey)Church and State in Old and New Worlds
(Leiden: E. J. Brill).

(2010) Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment.
British and Global Contexts
(Aldershot: Ashgate)

(2007) Captain Cook. Voyager between Worlds
(London: Continuum). Short-listed for the 2008 NSW Premier's History Prizes, General Category. Winner of the 2009 Frank Broeze biennial memorial prize for maritime history.

(2002) The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia (Cambridge UP) (ARC funded)

(1998) Science, politics and universities in Europe, 1600-1800 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), 300pp.

(March 1998) Science in the Service of Empire. Sir Joseph Banks and the British State in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), 247pp (ARC funded)

(1994) Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment. Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press,), 324 pp. Short-listed for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction, NSW Premier's Awards, 1995 (ARC funded)

(1989) Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment. Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press,), 358pp. Winner of the Hancock Prize of the Australian Historical Society for a first book, 1991

Affiliations and Memberships

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Interests

Modern Britain, Colonial Australia, the Enlightenment, history of ideas especially in relation to the interplay between science and religion, history of universities