Overview
- Explores race, gender, culture, politics and society in Australia during the First World War
- Examines the Australian people's engagement in the First World War, exploring a range of voices and perspectives
- Uses a local-global framework to assess Australians' connections with the war
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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The AIF: Composition and Contribution
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Crossing Boundaries: Race, Culture and Gender
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The War at Home: Politics, People and Historiographical Perspectives
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Cultural Legacies: Remembrance and Representation
Reviews
“The collection is a worthy addition to the stock of historical writing about Australia and the Great War … . the book shows that Australian war history has much more to offer – and illustrates possible future directions.” (Martin Crotty, Honest History, honesthistory.net.au, September, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
James E. Bennett is an historian at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published widely on aspects of Australian and New Zealand history including war and society, history on film, transnational labour history as well as medicine and sexuality. He is the author of ‘Rats and Revolutionaries’: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890–1940 (2004) and co-editor of Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand ( 2011) and Radical Newcastle (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Australians and the First World War
Book Subtitle: Local-Global Connections and Contexts
Editors: Kate Ariotti, James E. Bennett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51520-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51519-9Published: 23 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84673-6Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51520-5Published: 11 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 254
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Australasian History, History of Military, World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, History of World War II and the Holocaust