Australia and the Great War : identity, memory and mythology

Australia and the Great War : identity, memory and mythology / edited by Michael JK Walsh and Andrekos Varnava.

Australia and the Great War explores both the immediate and long-term consequences of the war on this complex relationship, looking in particular at identity, history, gender, propaganda, economics and nationalism. This multidisciplinary collection of essays unveils the creation and subsequent [mis]...

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Other Authors: Walsh, Michael J. K., 1968- (Editor), Varnava, Andrekos (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Melbourne University Press, 2016.
Series:MUP academic history series
Subjects:
1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 > Australia > Historiography.
Nationalism > Australia.
Collective memory > Australia.
Collective memory
Historiography
Nationalism
Australia > Historiography.
Australia
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Copyright; Title; Contents; 1 Australia's Great War: Contemporary and Historiographical Debates
  • Michael JK Walsh and Andrekos Varnava; Part I: Identities and Australianness; 2 Red Crossing for War: Responses of Imperial Feminism and the Australian Red Cross during the Great War; 3 Establishing Australian Medical-Military Expertise: The Gallipoli Landings; 4 From the Boer War to the Great War: Atrocity Propaganda and Complex Imperialism at the Westralian Worker 1900-1917; 5 The Enemy at the Gates: The 1918 Mystery Aeroplane Panic in Australia and New Zealand
  • 6 Saving the Australian War Effort in 1916? Global Climatic Conditions, Pests and William Morris Hughes's Negotiations with the British Government7 Loyalty Becoming Disloyalty? The War and Irish-Australians Before and After Easter 1916; 8 'This is Against All the British Traditions of Fair Play': Violence Against Greeks on the Australian Home Front during the Great War; Part II: Memory and Mythology; 9 Mustafa Kemal at Gallipoli: The Making of a Saga, 1921-1932 149; 10 Dangerous Ground and Fatal Shore: Remediating Gallipoli
  • 11 Revealing Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides in CEW Bean's Official History12 CEW Bean's Passchendaele; 13 Nationalism and War Memory in Australia; 14 From Competitive Memory to Comparative Commemoration: Tom Nicholson's Palestine Monument and the Great War Centenary; Select Bibliography; Biographies of Contributors; Index

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