Peter McPhee

Peter McPhee

Peter Balshaw McPhee (born 1948 ) is an Australian historian.

Life

Peter McPhee attended Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne and studied history at Trinity College, University of Melbourne , where he earned a BA, an MA, and a PhD in education. McPhee specialized in French history, particularly the French Revolution .

McPhee taught history at La Trobe University from 1975 to 1979 and at Victoria University of Wellington from 1980 to 1986 and then returned to Melbourne University. He introduced forms of e-learning in his own teaching . In addition to research and teaching, he was also involved in university operations and in the introduction of the Bologna Process in Australia. At the university he temporarily held the post of provost .

McPhee is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a member of the Order of Australia (AM).

Fonts (selection)

• Liberty or Death: The French Revolution . Yale University Press, 2016 ISBN 978-0300189933
• Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life . Yale University Press, 2012 ISBN 0-30011-811-2
• Living the French Revolution, 1789-1799 . Palgrave McMillan, 2006 ISBN 0-33399-739-5
• A social history of France, 1789-1914 . Palgrave McMillan, 2004 ISBN 0-33399-751-4
• The French Revolution, 1789-1799 . Oxford University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-19924-414-6
• with Philip G. Dwyer (Ed.): The French Revolution and Napoleon: a sourcebook . Routledge, 2002 ISBN 0-41519-907-7
• The French revolution in a Mediterranean community: Collioure 1780-1815 . History Department, University of Melbourne, 1999 ISBN 0-86839-876-4
• Pansy: a life of Roy Douglas Wright . Melbourne University Press, 1999 ISBN 0-52284-626-2
• Revolution and environment in Southern France, 1780-1830: peasants, lords, and murder in the Corbieres . Oxford University Press, 1999 ISBN 0-19820-717-4
• A social history of France 1780-1880 . Routledge, 1992 ISBN 0-41501-615-0
• The politics of rural life: political mobilization in the French countryside, 1846-1852 . Oxford University Press, 1992 ISBN 0-19820-225-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter McPhee in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Peter McPhee , at Melbourne University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruth Scurr : Beyond the barricades . Review, in: Financial Times , April 23, 2016, p. 9
2. ↑ Proceedings 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2011