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Dr Tony Griffiths (Adjunct)
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| Contemporary Australia,
London, 1977 |
The Irish Board
of Works, New York, 1987 |
Scandinavia, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1991 & 1993 | Beautiful Lies, Adelaide, 1993 |
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| Scandinavia, Adelaide, 1991 |
Scandinavia, at War with the Trolls, 2004 | Beautiful Lies:
Australia from Kokoda to Keating |
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In 2004 Griffiths' third edition of Scandinavia was published in New York. See www.palgrave-usa.com for Scandinavia At War with Trolls. ISBN 1406967768. It was also published in London. See www.hurstpub.co.uk for ISBN 1850653178. An Australian edition was published also. See www.wakefieldpress.com.au. In 2005 a Korean translation of the work was published by the Mirae Corporation, Seoul, Korea. The Mirae Corporation operates TV broadcast stations in Scandinavia. In 2004 Dr Griffiths presented a Paper at the University of Melbourne Conference on Baltic Studies, and in 2005 will attend the 6th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe www.va.lv/cbse/ presenting a paper outlining the relationship between Sweden and the Baltic States since 1905. The Wakefield Press in Adelaide also published in 2005 Beautiful Lies Australia from Menzies to Howard ISBN 186254901.
Reviews
Scandinavia: A modern history from the Napoleonic era to the third millennium
‘Tony Griffiths stated intentions are to analyse the relationship between cultural and political change by looking at Scandinavian artists and their works, and to provide an ‘outsiders’ history of the area without the all too common parochialism and bias of local historians. He has succeeded remarkably on both counts. There is an astonishing amount of information in Scandinavia’s200-odd pages, yet the lively style makes page after page read like a good story.’
- Australian Book Review‘An heroically compressed history of the politics and diplomacy by which the four nations have won and held their independence, and a witty and affectionate account of their leading writers,artists and businessmen.’
– Hugh Stretton, Adelaide Review
Beautiful lies: Australia from Menzies to Howard
Phillip Knightley, reviewing the first edition of this book almost thirty years ago in the Times Literary Supplement wrote:
No other book that I know describes so succinctly the forces that in less than forty years turned Australia from a vassal of the United Kingdom into an independent power, which, if it owes any allegiance, owes it politically to the United States and economically to Japan.
While the relationship between social change and political power has remained constant in Australia since World War Two, all the TLS would have to do in the third millennium is change the word ‘Japan’ for China. As Mark Twain said, ‘Australia’s story does not read like history,but like the most beautiful lies; and all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy old stale ones.’ This was most recently demonstrated when Prime Minister Howard won his record fourth election despite a damaging row in the Liberal Party over whether or not one of its own senators had described the prime minister as ‘a lying rodent.’
‘To understand modern Australia, study this.’ Times Educational Supplement
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Dr Neal Blewett, Dr Tony Griffiths and His Excellency the Swedish Ambassador to Australia, Bo Heinebäck, at the Swedish Consulate, Adelaide, 1 March 1991, on the occasion of Dr Blewett's launching of Dr Griffiths' book Scandinavia. See Reviews by Hugh Stretton, Sune Jungar, Tom Morton, Jan Waingelin, Marjatta Foward, Craig Cormack, Pekka Sorensen, Ulf-Erk Slotte, and Peter Morgan. |
 Dr Tony Griffiths at the launching of HMAS Dechaineux |
Tony Griffiths Curriculum Vitae.
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