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• The Reef – A Passionate History

  Iain’s latest book, The Reef – A Passionate History will be published by Penguin Australia on 23 October 2013. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest cor…

• Darwin’s Armada

  Darwin’s Armada is both a gripping adventure story and a brilliantly enlightening work of history, for the first time portraying the Darwinian revolution as a c…

• Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution

  Edited by Michael T. Davis, Iain McCalman, Christina Parolin

  Newgate in Revolution provides a useful and thought-provoking anthology of radical literature-satirical, philosophical, and political writings-issued by the rad…

• The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro

  Guiseppe Balsamo, the Count of Cagliostro, was an 18th-century Sicilian who became a magician, a mystic, a healer, a Freemason, swindler and, last but not least…

• The Enlightenment World

  Edited by Martin Fitzpatrick, Peter Jones, Christina Knellwolf & Iain McCalman

  The Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (circa. 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch a…

• Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens

  Edited by Jon Mee, Iain McCalman and Clive Hurst

  ‘What dark history is this?’ This is the question that hangs over Dickens’s brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the…

• Proof & Truth: The Humanist as Expert

  Edited by Iain McCalman & Ann Margaret McGrath

  Lawyers, historians, anthropologists and literary scholars draw heavily on the concepts of ‘evidence’, ‘proof’ and ‘truth’ but these crucial terms generally car…

• An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British culture, 1776-1832

  General Editor: Iain McCalman

  For the first time in this innovative reference book the Romantic Age is surveyed across all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic ter…

• Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia

  Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew Reeves

  Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous de…

• Mad Cows and Modernity. Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Crisis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

  Edited by Iain McCalman, Benjamin Penny & Misty Cook

  Proceedings of an interdisciplinary workshop held at the Australian National University, plus later invited papers, about the panicked response of the public to…

• National Biographies and National Identity: a critical approach to theory and editorial practice

  Edited by Iain McCalman, Jodi Parvey & Misty Cook

  This book presents a collection of papers presented at a conference which debated current and future trends in the shaping of national biographical dictionaries…

• Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840

  This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between th…