Australia's Empire
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 February 2008
- ISBN 9780199273737
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages440 pages
- Size 242x163x26 mm
- Weight 887 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 half tones 0
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Short description:
Australia's Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society.
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This is the first major collaborative reappraisal of Australia's experience of empire since the end of the British Empire itself.
The volume examines the meaning and importance of empire in Australia across a broad spectrum of historical issues-ranging from the disinheritance of the Aborigines to the foundations of a new democratic state. The overriding theme is the distinctive Australian perspective on empire. The country's adherence to imperial ideals and aspirations involved not merely the building of a 'new Britannia' but also the forging of a distinctive new culture and society. It was Australian interests and aspirations which ultimately shaped 'Australia's Empire'.
While modern Australians have often played down the significance of their British imperial past, the contributors to this book argue that the legacies of empire continue to influence the temper and texture of Australian society today.
... an impressive book, adventurous in conception, and packed with challenging essays, several verging on sheer brilliance.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: What Became of Australia's Empire?
Part I Contact: The projection of empire
The Saga of Captain Cook
Conquest
Settling the Land
Indigenous Subjects
New Visions from Old: Art and the Environment
Part II Dynamics: The instruments of empire
Empire, State, Nation
Migrations: The Career of White British Australia
Religion and Society
Money: Trade, Investment and Economic Nationalism
Security: Defending Australia's Empire
Part III Cultures: An imagined empire
Monarchy: From Reverence to Indifference
War and Commemoration: The Responsibility of Empire
Gender and Sexuality
Popular Culture
In History's Page: Identity and Myth
Epilogue: After Empire
