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Australians and the first World War [electronic resource] : local-global connections and contexts / Kate Ariotti, James E. Bennett, editor.

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This book contributes to the global turn in First World War studies by exploring Australians' engagements with the conflict across varied boundaries and by situating Australian voices and perspectives within broader, more complex contexts. This diverse and multifaceted collection includes chapt...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Ariotti, Kate, Bennett, James E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918 > Australia.
Australia.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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