Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application. The contributors to... more
Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application.
The contributors to the volume – historians, practitioners of foreign relations and political commentators, many of whom were taught by Meaney at the University of Sydney over the years – focus especially on the interaction between geopolitics, culture and ideology in shaping Australian and American approaches to the world.
Individual chapters examine a number of major themes informing Neville Meaney's work, including the sources and nature of Australia's British identity; the hapless, if dedicated, efforts of Australian politicians, public servants and intellectuals to reconcile this intense cultural identity with Australia's strategic anxieties in the Asia-Pacific region; and the sense of trauma created when the myth of ‘Britishness’ collapsed under the weight of new historical circumstances in the 1960s. They survey relations between Australia and the United States in the years after World War Two. Finally, they assess the US perceptions of itself as an ‘exceptional’ nation with a mission to spread democracy and liberty to the wider world and the way in which this self-perception has influenced its behaviour in international affairs.
The contributors to the volume – historians, practitioners of foreign relations and political commentators, many of whom were taught by Meaney at the University of Sydney over the years – focus especially on the interaction between geopolitics, culture and ideology in shaping Australian and American approaches to the world.
Individual chapters examine a number of major themes informing Neville Meaney's work, including the sources and nature of Australia's British identity; the hapless, if dedicated, efforts of Australian politicians, public servants and intellectuals to reconcile this intense cultural identity with Australia's strategic anxieties in the Asia-Pacific region; and the sense of trauma created when the myth of ‘Britishness’ collapsed under the weight of new historical circumstances in the 1960s. They survey relations between Australia and the United States in the years after World War Two. Finally, they assess the US perceptions of itself as an ‘exceptional’ nation with a mission to spread democracy and liberty to the wider world and the way in which this self-perception has influenced its behaviour in international affairs.
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Over the twentieth century 35,000 Australians suffered as prisoners of war in conflicts ranging from World War I to Korea. What was the reality of their captivity? Beyond Surrender presents for the first time the diversity of the... more
Over the twentieth century 35,000 Australians suffered as prisoners of war in conflicts ranging from World War I to Korea. What was the reality of their captivity? Beyond Surrender presents for the first time the diversity of the Australian 'behind-the-wire' experience, dissecting fact from fiction and myth from reality.
Beyond Surrender examines the impact that different types of camps, commandants and locations had on surrender, survival, prison life and the prospects of escape. It considers the attitudes of Australian governments to those who had surrendered, the work of relief agencies and the agony of families waiting at home for their husbands, brothers and fathers to be freed.
Covering several conflicts and diverse sites of captivity, Beyond Surrender showcases new research from Kate Ariotti, Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant, Jeffrey Grey, Karl James, Jennifer Lawless, Peter Monteath, Melanie Oppenheimer, Aaron Pegram, Lucy Robertson, Seumas Spark and Christina Twomey.
Contents:
1. Remembering and rethinking captivity
by Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant and Aaron Pegram
2. Bold bids for freedom: escape and Australian prisoners in Germany, 1916-18
by Aaron Pegram
3. Starvation, cruelty and neglect? Captivity in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-18
by Jennifer Lawless
4. 'At present everything is making us most anxious': families of Australian prisoners in Turkey
by Kate Ariotti
5. 'Our number one priority': the Australian Red Cross and prisoners of war in the world wars
by Melanie Oppenheimer
6. 'I hope you are not too ashamed of me': prisoners in the siege of Tobruk, 1941
by Karl James
7. Beyond the Colditz myth: Australian experiences of German captivity in World War II
by Peter Monteath
8. Australian prisoners of war of Italy in World War II: public and private histories
by Seumas Spark
9. Changi: military discipline in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, 1942-45
by Lucy Robertson
10. Officers and men: rank and survival on the Thai-Burma railway
by Joan Beaumont
11. Hellships, prisoner transport, and unrestricted submarine warfare in World War II
by Lachlan Grant
12. Breaking barriers: the diversity of prisoner-of-war camps in Japan and Australian contacts with Japanese civilians
by Lachlan Grant
13. Remembering captivity in the Korean War
by Jeffrey Grey, Jon MacKay and Ron Guthrie
14. Compensating prisoners of war of Japan in post-war Australia
by Christina Twomey
Beyond Surrender examines the impact that different types of camps, commandants and locations had on surrender, survival, prison life and the prospects of escape. It considers the attitudes of Australian governments to those who had surrendered, the work of relief agencies and the agony of families waiting at home for their husbands, brothers and fathers to be freed.
Covering several conflicts and diverse sites of captivity, Beyond Surrender showcases new research from Kate Ariotti, Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant, Jeffrey Grey, Karl James, Jennifer Lawless, Peter Monteath, Melanie Oppenheimer, Aaron Pegram, Lucy Robertson, Seumas Spark and Christina Twomey.
Contents:
1. Remembering and rethinking captivity
by Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant and Aaron Pegram
2. Bold bids for freedom: escape and Australian prisoners in Germany, 1916-18
by Aaron Pegram
3. Starvation, cruelty and neglect? Captivity in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-18
by Jennifer Lawless
4. 'At present everything is making us most anxious': families of Australian prisoners in Turkey
by Kate Ariotti
5. 'Our number one priority': the Australian Red Cross and prisoners of war in the world wars
by Melanie Oppenheimer
6. 'I hope you are not too ashamed of me': prisoners in the siege of Tobruk, 1941
by Karl James
7. Beyond the Colditz myth: Australian experiences of German captivity in World War II
by Peter Monteath
8. Australian prisoners of war of Italy in World War II: public and private histories
by Seumas Spark
9. Changi: military discipline in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, 1942-45
by Lucy Robertson
10. Officers and men: rank and survival on the Thai-Burma railway
by Joan Beaumont
11. Hellships, prisoner transport, and unrestricted submarine warfare in World War II
by Lachlan Grant
12. Breaking barriers: the diversity of prisoner-of-war camps in Japan and Australian contacts with Japanese civilians
by Lachlan Grant
13. Remembering captivity in the Korean War
by Jeffrey Grey, Jon MacKay and Ron Guthrie
14. Compensating prisoners of war of Japan in post-war Australia
by Christina Twomey
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Cultural History, History and Memory, Nationalism, and 18 moreNational Identity, Second World War, Prisoners of War, World War I, First World War, World War II, Australian History, Korean War, Second World War (History), World War II history, Australian Army, Anzac, Australian military history, Australia in World War II, The Second World War, social and cultural history of the Second World War, World War II Prisoners of War, and History of the Second World War and the Holocaust
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Defence of the nation is one of the fundamental obligations of government. For much of the first century of the Commonwealth of Australia that obligation has been tested – in two world wars, and in a series of other military engagements.... more
Defence of the nation is one of the fundamental obligations of government. For much of the first century of the Commonwealth of Australia that obligation has been tested – in two world wars, and in a series of other military engagements. The military reputation that has grown out of these defining moments in Australian history has been a significant factor in moulding Australians' views of themselves, yet service matters have not often attracted any great degree of public interest. "The Australian Centenary History of Defence" explains the complexities of an essential strand of the Commonwealth's first century – the successes and the failures, the progress and the setbacks, in peace and war. This book is intended for general readers of military defence history titles, especially works in this series. Also military defence historians and students.
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The Second World War was a dominant experience in Australian history. For the first time the country faced the threat of invasion. The economy and society were mobilised to an unprecedented degree, with 550 000 men and women, or one in... more
The Second World War was a dominant experience in Australian history. For the first time the country faced the threat of invasion. The economy and society were mobilised to an unprecedented degree, with 550 000 men and women, or one in twelve of a population of over 7 million, serving in the armed forces overseas. Social patterns and family life were disrupted. Politically, the war gave a new legitimacy to the Australian Labor Party which had been confined to the wilderness of the Opposition at the Federal level for most of the inter-war years. The powers of the Federal government increased and a new momentum for social reform was generated at the popular and governmental level. In the international sphere, the war fundamentally shook Australian confidence in the power on which it had relied for generations, Great Britain. It generated a sense of independence in Australian foreign policy and initiated a new, if halting and problematic, realignment towards the United States.
This book considers the range of Australia's experience of this conflict, drawing together the many aspects of the war and distilling the current state of historical scholarship.
This book considers the range of Australia's experience of this conflict, drawing together the many aspects of the war and distilling the current state of historical scholarship.