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

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319515195
• ISBN13: 9783319515199
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"