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What's wrong with ANZAC? : the militarisation of Australian history
Brave and controversial, this account argues that Australians' collective obsession with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) has distorted their perception of national history. Delving into the history of ANZAC and the mythologies surrounding it, this detailed record explores topics such as the formation of Australia's national holiday—ANZAC Day—and the way in which the spirit of ANZAC is taught in the nation's classrooms. Ultimately, this informative narrative claims that ANZAC has become a conservative political force in Australia and questions whether ANZAC'S renowned foreign battles were worth all of the bloodshed. Daring, intelligent, and thought-provoking, this is a must-read for those interested in Australian or military history.
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Memory, place and Aboriginal-settler history : understanding Australians' consciousness of the colonial past
\"Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in rural South Australian settler descendants' historical consciousness as a starting point, Memory, Place and Aboriginal-Settler History combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate how and why the colonial past is known, represented and understood by current generations. The author draws on archival research, interviews, oral histories, fieldwork, site visits and personal experience to closely examine the diverse but interconnected processes through which the past is understood and narrated. Concluding that the colonial era is primarily and most powerfully known through lived experience--through dwelling in place, material objects, family stories and everyday social interaction--this deep history demonstrates how, by unsettling taken-for-granted assumptions, a process of settler-Aboriginal reconciliation can be facilitated\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A daughter of the oppressors
This paper examines the disjuncture between the myth of white, colonial Australia, and the reality of how we treated the Aboriginal people who had been here for millennia. It argues that the only way white Australia can justify its mythologising of its foundation is by ignoring the long history of British coloniality prior to the invasion of Australia. It shows that even historians who claim to be dealing with the reality of Australia's colonisation, do so through a lens that discounts the brutality and intentionality of British colonisation generally, and takes no account of the practice/policy the British had of invasion, conquest and dispossession of other people's land prior to coming to Australia.
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Material Powers
This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms of governance.
A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on in illustrating these concerns - from the role of territorial engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through the development of the postal system in nineteenth-century Britain to the relations between the state and road-building in contemporary Peru, for example. The colonial contexts examined are similarly varied, ranging from the role of photographic practices in the constitution of colonial power in India and the measurement of the bodies of the colonized in French colonial practices to the part played by the relations between museums and expeditions in the organization of Australian forms of colonial rule. These specific concerns are connected to major critical re-examination of the limits of the earlier formulations of cultural materialism and the logic of the 'cultural turn'.
The collection brings together a group of key international scholars whose work has played a leading role in debates in and across the fields of history, visual culture studies, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, museum studies, and literary studies.
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A daughter of the oppressors
This paper examines the disjuncture between the myth of white, colonial Australia, and the reality of how we treated the Aboriginal people who had been here for millennia. It argues that the only way white Australia can justify its mythologising of its foundation is by ignoring the long history of British coloniality prior to the invasion of Australia. It shows that even historians who claim to be dealing with the reality of Australia's colonisation, do so through a lens that discounts the brutality and intentionality of British colonisation generally, and takes no account of the practice/policy the British had of invasion, conquest and dispossession of other people's land prior to coming to Australia.
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In the Shadow of Gallipoli
Fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons. The war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. In the Shadow of Gallipoli corrects this historical amnesia by looking at what was happening on the Australian home front during WWI. It shows that the war was a disaster, and many Australians knew it. Discontent and dissent grew into major revolt. Bollard considers the wartime strike wave, including the Great Strike of 1917, alongside the impact of international political events including the Easter Rising in Ireland and the Russian Revolution. The first year of peace was tumultuous as strikes and riots involving returned Anzacs shook Australia throughout 1919. This book uncovers the history that has been obscured by the shadow of Anzac. This is history from below at its best.
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Farm novel or station romance?: The Geraldton Novels of Randolph Stow
Randolph Stow set three of his novels in and around Geraldton on Western Australia's mid- north coast. These were his first two novels, A Haunted Land (1956) and The Bystander (1957), written during his late teens while a student at the University of Western Australia, and his fifth novel, The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea (1965).1 In this essay, I would like to introduce a more closely-grained treatment of the material dynamics of colonisation that sit beneath Stow's Geraldton novels. These dynamics-in particular, the mode of agrarian land usage-tend to be mystified by the metaphysics of alienation of a certain school of Australian criticism, and occluded in the more typological forms of postcolonial critique. In this task, I am following John McLaren in locating Stow's work firmly within a global extension of agricultural production into new zones of exploitation during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in regarding the symbolic estrangement (i.e. 'alienation') of Stow's characters as a manifestation of the vicissitudes of these material colonial processes.
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Broken nation : Australians in the Great War
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac legend. But it was also a war fought by the families at home. Their resilience in the face of hardship, their stoic acceptance of enormous casualty lists, and their belief that their cause was just, made the war effort possible. Broken Nation is the first book to bring together all the dimensions of World War I. Combining deep scholarship with powerful storytelling, Joan Beaumont brings the war years to life: from the well-known battles at Gallipoli, Pozieres, Fromelles, and Villers-Bretonneux, to the lesser known battles in Europe and the Middle East; from the ferocious debates over conscription to the disillusioning Paris peace conference and the devastating \"Spanish\" flu the soldiers brought home. Witness the fear and courage of tens of thousands of soldiers, grapple with the strategic nightmares confronting the commanders, and come to understand the impact on Australians at home and at the front of death on an unprecedented scale. A century after the Great War, Broken Nation brings lucid insight into the dramatic events, mass grief, and political turmoil that makes the memory of this terrible war central to Australia's history.
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The woman who loved those yanks: The facts and fictions of Maureen C. Meadows and her 'narration of that desire'
An estimated one million troops passed through Brisbane during the Second World War (\"We've Said 'Hello, Goodbye' To A Million Doughboys Since Japan Struck\"). It was \"friendly invasion\" (Connors et al. 141) that, socially and culturally, impacted \"young Queensland women of the era quite possibly more than any other group\" (Hennesey 61). Now part of its cultural mythology and commemorative parlance, Brisbane's status as a garrison town during this time has been well documented by historians in several popular and scholarly histories...
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