Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319846736 ISBN 13 : 9783319846736

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

1. Introduction; Kate Ariotti and James E. Bennett.- Part One. The AIF: Composition and Contribution.- 2. Foreign-Born Soldiers in the First AIF: Australia's Multinational Fighting Force; Karen Agutter.- 3. The Key to Victory: Australia's Military Contribution on the Western Front in 1918; Meleah Hampton.- Part II. Crossing Boundaries: Race, Culture and Gender.- 4. International Encounters in Captivity: The Cross-Cultural Experiences of Australian POWs in the Ottoman Empire; Kate Ariotti.- 5. Australian Nurses and the 1918 Deolali Inquiry: Transcolonial Racial and Gendered Anxieties in a British Indian War Hospital; Victoria K. Haskins.- 6. Opportunities to Engage: The Red Cross and Australian Women's Global War Work; Melanie Oppenheimer.- Part III. The War at Home: Politics, People and Historiographical Perspectives.- 7. Labour and the Home Front: Changing Perspectives on the First World War in Australian Historiography; Frank Buongiorno.- 8. Australian Echoes of Imperial Tensions: Government Surveillance of Irish-Australians; Stephanie James.- 9. Aboriginal Australians and the Home Front; Samuel Furphy.- 10. 'Total War' in Australia: Civilian Mobilisation and Commitment 1914-1918; Bart Ziino.- Part IV. Cultural Legacies: Remembrance and Representation.- 11. Decentring Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916-1939; Jenny Macleod.- 12. "So homesick for Anzac"? Australian Novelists and the Shifting Cartographies of Gallipoli; Christina Spittel.- 13. Australia's War through the Lens of Centenary Documentary: Connecting Scholarly and Popular Histories; James E. Bennett.- Select Bibliography.- Index

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kate Ariotti is Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her PhD thesis on Australians and the impact of captivity in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War was recently awarded the C.E.W. Bean Prize for Military History from the Australian Army History Unit. She has published several book chapters and journal articles about the experiences of the POWs and the legacy of their captivity.
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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319846736
• ISBN 13: 9783319846736
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Ariotti Kate, Bennett James E.
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