Peter Monteath
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{{short description|Australian historian and academic}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1961}}
| birth_place = Brisbane, Queensland
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| awards = Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1997)
Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize (2004)
| alma_mater = University of Queensland (BA [Hons])
University of Siegen (MA)
Griffith University (PhD)
| thesis_title = Literature, Politics and War: The Impact of Political Commitment on the International Literature of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
| thesis_url = http://librarycatalogue.griffith.edu.au/search/q?author=monteath+peter+david&title=literature+politics+war+impact+political+commitment+international+literature+spanish+civil+war+1936+1939+by+peter+david+monteath&submit=Search
| thesis_year = 1990
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| workplaces = Flinders University
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| main_interests = Modern European and Australian history
Prisoners of war and internment
| notable_works = P.O.W. (2011)
Red Professor (2015)
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Peter David Monteath (born 1961) is an Australian historian and academic. He is a professor in Modern European History at Flinders University in South Australia. Monteath's research interests are in modern European and Australian history. He has a particular interest in prisoners of war, internment, and the German presence in Australia and has written extensively on these subjects.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/peter.monteath |title=Peter Monteath |publisher=Flinders University |date=n.d. |accessdate=2017-06-14}}{{cite web|title=Peter Monteath on Trove Books|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/book/result?q=monteath%2C+peter|website=National Library of Australia|accessdate=15 June 2017}}
With Jean Fornasiero and John West-Soob, Monteath co-authored Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders (Wakefield Press, 2004), which won the 2004 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize.{{cite web|title=Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize|url=http://www.anmm.gov.au/Get-Involved/Grants-and-Awards/History-Prizes#Past-Recipients|website=Australian National Maritime Museum|accessdate=14 June 2017}}
Monteath co-authored with Valerie Munt Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose (Wakefield Press, 2015), which was shortlisted for the 2016 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History.{{cite web|title=2016 Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlist|url=http://www.minister.communications.gov.au/mitch_fifield/news/2016_prime_ministers_literary_awards_shortlist_announced#.WUHyLROGNp8|website=Ministers for the Department of Communications and the Arts|accessdate=15 June 2017}}
Bibliography
=Author=
- {{cite book|last=Monteath|first=Peter|title=Writing the Good Fight: Political Commitment in the International Literature of the Spanish Civil War|year=1994|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=031328766X|author-mask=1}}
- {{cite book|last1=Monteath|first1=Peter|last2=Fornasiero|first2=Jean|last3=West-Sooby|first3=John|title=Encountering Terra Australis: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders|year=2004|publisher=Wakefield Press|location=Kent Town, South Australia|isbn=1862546258|author-mask1=1}}
- {{cite book|last=Monteath|first=Peter|title=Dear Dr Janzow: Australia's Lutheran Churches and Refugees from Hitler's Germany|year=2005|publisher=Australian Humanities Press|location=Unley, South Australia|isbn=0975831305|author-mask=1}}
- {{cite book|last=Monteath|first=Peter|title=P.O.W.: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler's Reich|year=2011|publisher=Macmillan|location=Sydney|isbn=9781742610085|author-mask=1}}
- {{cite book|last1=Monteath|first1=Peter|last2=Paul|first2=Mandy|last3=Martin|first3=Rebecca|title=Interned: Torrens Island 1914-1915|year=2014|publisher=Wakefield Press|location=Mile End, South Australia|isbn=9781743053386|author-mask1=1}}
- {{cite book|last1=Monteath|first1=Peter|last2=Munt|first2=Valerie|title=Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose|year=2015|publisher=Wakefield Press|location=Mile End, South Australia|isbn=9781743053720|author-mask1=1}}
- {{cite book|last=Monteath|first=Peter|title=Escape Artist: The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck|year=2017|publisher=NewSouth Publishing|location=Sydney|isbn=9781742235509|author-mask=1}}
- {{cite book|last=Monteath|first=Peter|title=Captured Lives: Australia's Wartime Internment Camps|year=2018|publisher=NLA Publishing|location=Canberra|isbn=9780642279248|author-mask=1}}
=Editor=
- {{cite book|editor-last=Monteath|editor-first=Peter|title=The Spanish Civil War in Literature, Film, and Art: An International Bibliography of Secondary Literature|year=1994|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Connecticut|isbn=0313292620|editor-mask=1}}
- {{cite book|author-last=Smith|author-first=Samuel|editor-last=Monteath|editor-first=Peter|title=Sailing with Flinders: The Journal of Seaman Samuel Smith|year=2002|publisher=Corkwood Press|location=Adelaide|isbn=1876247134|editor-mask=1}}
- {{cite book|author-last=Creaghe|author-first=Caroline|editor-last=Monteath|editor-first=Peter|title=The Diary of Emily Creaghe Creaghe: Explorer|year=2004|publisher=Corkwood Press|location=Adelaide|isbn=9781876247140|editor-mask=1}}
- {{cite book|editor-last=Monteath|editor-first=Peter|title=Germans: Travellers, Settlers and their Descendants in South Australia|year=2011|publisher=Wakefield Press|location=Kent Town, South Australia|isbn=9781743050101|editor-mask=1}}
- {{cite book|author-last=Gerstäcker|author-first=Friedrich|editor-last=Monteath|editor-first=Peter|title=Australia: A German traveller in the age of gold|year=2016|publisher=Wakefield Press|location=Mile End, South Australia|isbn=9781743054192|editor-mask=1}}
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Category:Academics from Brisbane
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