Julie McIntyre

The University of Newcastle, History, Faculty Member

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My research on agriculture and environments focuses on how the growing, making, selling, drinking and export of Australian grape wine is a window to human desire, changing identities and landscapes. These inquiries cross into histories of alcohol production, business and trade, drinking cultures and tourism. I argue for the need to conceptualise 'global' as a re-entanglement of social, environmental and economic historical factors in settler capitalist communities. This notion frames my research as the State Library of NSW 2018 Merewether Fellow on the project 'Settlers in the Empire of Science: William Macarthur, James King and Australian agricultural modernity'. My research career followed completion of a Bachelor of Arts (Hons First Class) at the University of Newcastle in 2004, for which I earned Faculty and University Medals. This led to an Australian Postgraduate Award to undertake a PhD (History) at the University of Sydney. My PhD thesis, conferred in 2009, is titled A "Civilised" Drink and a "Civilising" Industry: Wine growing and cultural imagining in colonial New South Wales. In 2010 I held the Rydon Fellowship at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies (MCAS), King's College London. This fellowship enabled access to archives at the British Library and Kew Gardens to explore histories of economic theories and the sciences connected with wine growing in colonial Australia. My research appears in major journals including Australian Historical Studies, the Journal of Australian Colonial History and Australian Economic History Review. My monograph First Vintage: Wine in Colonial New South Wales (UNSW Press, 2012) received a international publishing prize and was shortlisted for a NSW Premier's History Award, as well as other honours. My current project is the Australian Research Council Linkage Project 'Vines, Wine

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First Vintage: Wine in Colonial New South Wales

This award winning monograph argues that the roots of the Australian wine industry lie in British... more This award winning monograph argues that the roots of the Australian wine industry lie in British imperial ambition, colonial imagining and decades of hard won knowledge resulting from plant and knowledge mobilities from outside the British Empire. By viewing early Australian wine history through the lens of contemporary historical concerns such as Indigenous-settler relations, migration, transnational knowledge flows and agricultural organisation, this book gives a unique view of the origins of industry producers intertwined with their environment and attempting to develop a consumer base within emergent political, legal and cultural structures in the first century of European Australia.

First Vintage: wine in colonial New South Wales (Sydney, 2012)

First Vintage explores the forgotten history of the early Australian wine industry. Few people kn... more First Vintage explores the forgotten history of the early Australian wine industry. Few people know that vine cuttings were brought to Australia on the First Fleet and planted in Governor Arthur Phillip’s garden at Circular Quay, or that botanist and champion of colonial development Joseph Banks encouraged plans to create a wine industry from the earliest years of the colony. Before the assisted migration of German vinedressers in the 1830s, any convict or free settler with a hint of vine growing or wine making expertise was quickly drafted to the cause. First Vintage reveals the people who dreamed of making Australia a wine-drinking country, including influential colonists Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson, Richard Windeyer, John Macarthur and Thomas Mitchell, who all had vineyards. It shows the challenges of choosing vine stock, the battles to protect against pests and diseases, and the innovation of new technologies which assisted small scale growers, many in wine regions which vanished from the landscape and memory for much of the twentieth century.

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Not Rich and Not British: Philip Schaeffer, 'Failed' Colonial Farmer

The article discusses historical scholarship on colonial farming and a critique of the role of th... more The article discusses historical scholarship on colonial farming and a critique of the role of the Enlightenment ideal of progress in constructionist representations of early colonial small-holders. Schaeffer's work has achieved increased historical significance since wine has become one of Australia's largest agricultural exports.

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