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

by Kate Ariotti (Editor), James E. Bennett (Editor)

Overview

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 chapters on the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial Force, the experiences of prisoners of war, nurses and Red Cross workers, the resonances of overseas events for Australians at home, and the cultural legacies of the war through remembrance and representation. The local-global framework provides a fresh lens through which to view Australian connections with the Great War, demonstrating that there is still much to be said about this cataclysmic event in modern history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319515205
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	08/11/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	254
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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).

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
     

Editorial Reviews

Global history of the kind championed in this book is no longer a choice; it is a necessity, and, going by the high level of scholarship found in this book, a portent of excellent things to come.” (Jay Winter, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 49, 2018)

“The collection is a worthy addition to the sk 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)

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