Stewart Lone
Associate Professor
History Program
Phone: +61 2 6268 8868
Fax: +61 2 6268? 8879
Email: s.lone@adfa.edu.au
Professional Background
Lectures, seminars, presentations at UNSW@ADFA, Australian National University, Cambridge University, Columbia University, Kyoto University, London University, Melbourne University, National Institute of Defence Studies (Tokyo), Princeton University, Sheffield University, Takushoku University (Japan), University of Kansas
Visiting Professorships: Cambridge University, London School of Economics (London University), National Institute of Defence Studies (Tokyo), Sophia University (Tokyo)
Courses Taught
- East Asia: Between Tradition & Modernity (Nineteenth Century China, Japan & Korea)
- Social Change in East Asia (Twentieth Century China, Japan & Korea)
- Indian Society (16th-21st Centuries)
- Empires: Cultures of Control (4th year Honours)
- Birth of the Modern World (History 1A – tutor)
- Conflicts in Context: Aspects of World History since 1941 (History 1B – tutor)
- The Age of Extremes 1919-91 (History 1B – tutor)
Research Interests / Projects
Japan and the Age of Speed: Urban Life and the Automobile in Interwar Kyoto (book project due for completion in 2012)
Travelling Japan’s Dark Valley: Domestic Tourism in the Depression Era of the 1930s (ongoing article project)
Automobility and Urban Life in Contemporary India: The New and the Old in New and Old Delhi (research project in development)
Areas of general interest: modernity and urban life; technology and society; travel and tourism; civil society and the military; popular culture; social history of Japan 1800s-present; social history of Korea 1800s-present; social history of India 1600s-present.
Consulting / Professional Activities
Adviser to several historical dictionaries and encyclopedias
Major Publications
a) Monographs
- Provincial Life and the Military in Imperial Japan: The Phantom Samurai (London/NY 2009)
- Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia (Westport 2007), editor and main contributor
- The Japanese Community in Brazil 1908-1940: Between Samurai and Carnival (London/NY 2001)
- Army, Empire and Politics in Meiji Japan: The Three Careers of Katsura Taro (London/NY 2000)
- Japan’s First Modern War: Army and Society in the Conflict with China 1894-95 (London/NY 1994)
- Korea Since 1850, main author (London/NY 1993)
b) Journal articles/book chapters
- ‘Korea’, in C. Fernandes, ed., Asia and Oceania: Hotspot Histories volume 5 (Westport 2008)
- ‘Remembering Life in South Vietnam circa 1965-75’, in S. Lone, ed., Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia (Westport 2007)
- ‘The Wars of Meiji Japan’, in S. Lone, ed., Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Asia (Westport 2007)
- ‘Between Bushido and Black Humour: Japanese Society in the Russo-Japanese war’, History Today (London) September 2005
- ‘Remapping Japanese militarism: Provincial Society at War 1904-1905’, Japanese Studies (Taylor and Francis, London), May 2005
- ‘Between samurai and carnival: identity, language, music and dance among the Japanese expatriate community in 1930s Brazil’, in Sandra Wilson, ed., Nation and Nationalism in Japan (London/NY 2002)
- ‘Japanese militarism: Western myths, Japanese realities’, in Tamae Prindle, ed., Japan in the Twentieth Century: International Perspectives, (Denver/Berkeley 1999)
- ‘The Japanese annexation of Korea 1910: the failure of East Asian co-prosperity’, Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge) 1991
Areas of Previous and Potential Postgraduate Supervision
- Japan
- India
- urban studies
- civil-military relations
- colonialism