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Australia's Empire
Deryck Schreuder and Stuart Ward
440 pages
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10 half tones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-927373-7
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Hardback
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07 February 2008
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- Major new collaborative account of Australia's imperial experience
- Brings together political, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the period for the first time
- Part of the Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
This is the first major collaborative reappraisal of Australia's experience of empire since the end of the British Empire itself.
The volume examines the meaning and importance of empire in Australia across a broad spectrum of historical issues-ranging from the disinheritance of the Aborigines to the foundations of a new democratic state. The overriding theme is the distinctive Australian perspective on empire. The country's adherence to imperial ideals and aspirations involved not merely the building of a 'new Britannia' but also the forging of a distinctive new culture and society. It was Australian interests and aspirations which ultimately shaped 'Australia's Empire'.
While modern Australians have
often played down the significance of their British imperial past, the contributors to this book argue that the legacies of empire continue to influence the temper and texture of Australian society today.Readership: Readers interested in the British Empire; students and scholars of Australian and imperial history.
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Deryck Schreuder, Visiting Professor, The University of Sydney, and Stuart Ward, Associate Professor, Institute of English, German, and Romance Studies, Copenhagen University Contributors:
Deryck M. Schreuder, University of Sydney
Stuart Ward, University of Copenhagen
Hobbles Danaiyarri
Deborah Bird Rose, Australian National University
Alan Atkinson, University of New England, New South Wales
Richard Waterhouse, University of Sydney
Ann Curthoys, Australian National University
Anne Gray, National Gallery of Australia
John Hirst, La Trobe
University, Melbourne
Eric Richards, Flinders University, Adelaide
Hilary M. Carey, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
Geoffrey Bolton, Murdoch University, Western Australia
Mark McKenna, University of Sydney
Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne
Angela Woollacott, Macquarie University
Richard White, University of Sydney
Hsu-Ming Teo, Macquarie University, New South Wales
Neville Meaney, University of Sydney
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"... an impressive book, adventurous in conception, and packed with challenging essays, several verging on sheer brilliance." - The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs "...a timely re-evaluation of the influences that helped shape modern-day Australia...a fascinating companion to the Oxford History of the Brritish Empire that should engage students and academics alike and all those interested in contemporary Australia and the shadow of its colonial past." - Lucy Popescu, Tribune "This is an important book. It will be seen by many readers as challenging or stimulating...To my knowledge this theme, so wide in its span, has not previously been attempted with such comprehensiveness" -
Geoffrey Blainey, The Australian Newspaper "It is part of the unfashionability of the topic that nothing on quite this scale has been attempted since the 1930s. The editors have marshalled an impressive array of talent... [to produce] a fine volume" - Jim Davidson, The Age Newspaper "Deryck Schreuder and Stuart Ward, are both recognised authorities on the subject, and both have done work beyond Australia that enables them to appreciate its distinctive characteristics. The contributors include leading historians who develop their topics with assurance...Together with the editorial introduction and epilogue, these make a persuasive case for bringing the imperial dimension back into Australian historiography" - Stuart MacIntyre,
The Australian Book Review
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Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward: Introduction: What Became of Australia's Empire?
Part I Contact: The projection of empire
1: Hobbles Danaiyarri: The Saga of Captain Cook
2: Alan Atkinson: Conquest
3: Richard Waterhouse: Settling the Land
4: Ann Curthoys: Indigenous Subjects
5: Anne Gray: New Visions from Old: Art and the Environment
Part II Dynamics: The instruments of empire
6: John Hirst: Empire, State, Nation
7: Eric Richards: Migrations: The Career of White British Australia
8: Hilary M. Carey: Religion and Society
9: Geoffrey Bolton: Money: Trade, Investment and Economic Nationalism
10: Stuart Ward: Security: Defending Australia's Empire
Part III Cultures: An imagined empire
11: Mark McKenna: Monarchy: From Reverence to Indifference
12: Joy Damousi: War and Commemoration: The Responsibility of Empire
13: Angela Woollacott: Gender and Sexuality
14: Richard White and Hsu-Ming Teo: Popular Culture
15: Neville Meaney: In History's Page: Identity and Myth
Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward: Epilogue: After Empire
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