Thomas Buchanan

Biography

Tom has a long-term interest in the history of capitalism. His early work focused on the history of enslaved people in the midst of America's nineteenth-century market revolution. It analysed how capitalist transformation created tensions within the steamboat economy of the Mississippi River that facilitated intensified slaveholder exploitation of enslaved people while it simultaneously created new possibilities for resistance. Currently, he is researching the culture of capitalism in the context of twentieth-century Australia. He is studying how Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Inc. (BHP) worked to shape the country in its own image, projecting corporate values onto many aspects of Australian life. The project will reach transnational dimensions in its later stages as it follows the impact of the 'Big Australian' on the global South.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc