Empire, region, world: The international context of Australian foreign policy since 1939

Australian Journal of Politics and History

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 346-358

  Reynolds, David ^a  

^a CHRIST S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 26244450863     PISSN: 00049522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2005.0377a.x     Document Type: Review

References (44)

1. Quoted in K.S. Inglis, Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape (Melbourne, 1999), p. 74;
2. cf. Charles Carrington, Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work (London, 1970), p. 237.
3. Drawing on themes from David Reynolds, One World Divisible: A Global History since 1945 (New York, 2000).
4. John Darwin, "Decolonization and the End of Empire", in Robin Winks, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire: Vol. V, Historiography (Oxford, 1999), pp. 541-57;
5. A.G. Hopkins, "Back to the Future: From National History to Imperial History", Past and Present, Vol. 164 (August 1999), pp. 198-243.
6. Quoted in P.G. Edwards, Prime Ministers and Diplomats: The Making of Australian Foreign Policy, 1901-1949 (Melbourne, 1983), who also notes the unintended impact of this phrase, originally written by his Press Secretary, p. 156.
7. E.g. Kosmos Tsokhas, "Dedominionization: The Anglo-Australian Experience, 1939-1945", Historical Journal, Vol. 37 (1994), pp. 861-83.
8. Carl Bridge, ed., Munich to Vietnam: Australia's Relations with Britain and the United States since the 1930s (Melbourne, 1991), p. 8.
9. See the range of essays in David Lee and Christopher Waters, eds, Evatt to Evans: The Labor Tradition in Australian Foreign Policy (St Leonards, NSW, 1997).
10. Greg Pemberton, "An Imperial Imagination: Explaining the Post-1945 Foreign Policy of Robert Gordon Menzies" in Frank Cain, ed., Menzies in War and Peace (St Leonards, NSW, 1997), p. 156.
11. A theme of much recent historiography, pioneered in John Gallagher (ed. Anil Seal), The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire (Cambridge, 1982).
12. Quoted in David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century (2nd edn, London, 2000), pp. 213-14.
13. A theme, for instance, of the essays in Bridge, ed., Munich to Vietnam.
14. Quoted in Alan Watt, The Evolution of Australian Foreign Policy, 1938-1965 (Cambridge, 1967), p. 24.
15. Peter Dennis, "Australia and Indonesia: The Early Years", in David Lowe, ed., Australia and the End of Empires: The Impact of Decolonisation in Australia's Near North, 1945-1965 (Geelong, 1996), pp. 43-52;
16. Richard Chauvel, "Up the Creek without a Paddle: Australia, West New Guinea and the 'Great and Powerful Friend"', in Cain ed., Menzies in War and Peace, pp. 55-71.
17. David Armstrong, The Rise of the International Organisation: A Short History (London, 1982), p. 61.
18. Quoted in David Lowe, "Menzies' National Security State, 1950-53" in Cain, ed., Menzies in Peace and War, p. 102.
19. Quotations from Gregory Pemberton, All the Way: Australia's Road to Vietnam (Sydney, 1987), pp. 316, 333.
20. Geir Lundestad, "Empire by Invitation?: The United States and Western Europe, 1945-1952", Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 23 (1986), pp. 263-77.
21. See also some of the essays in David Reynolds, ed., The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: International Perspectives (New Haven, 1994).
22. Cf. Elisabeth Barker, The British between the Superpowers, 1945-50 (London, 1983), p. 127.
23. E.g. John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War history (Oxford, 1997), pp. 282-3;
24. Odd Arne Westad, "The New International History of the Cold War", Diplomatic History, Vol. 24 (2000), esp. pp. 552-6;
25. Odd Arne Westad, ed., Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory (London, 2000), chapters 4 and 8.
26. A.W. Martin, Robert Menzies: A Life (2 Vols, Melbourne, 1993-9), Vol. 2, p. 169.
27. This theme is developed in David Lowe, Menzies and the 'Great World Struggle': Australia's Cold War, 1948-1954 (Sydney, 1999).
28. Quoted in Carl Bridge, "Special Relationships": Australia, Britain and the United States since 1941 (The Trevor Reese Memorial Lecture, 1991, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London), p. 18.
29. Quoted in Joan Beaumont, ed., Australia's War 1939-45 (St Leonards, NSW, 1996), p. 30.
30. See Glen St. J. Barclay, Friends in High Places: Australian-American Diplomatic Relations since 1945 (Melbourne, 1985), p. 55.
31. Quotations from Pemberton, All the Way, p. 313.
32. John Colville, The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries, 1939-1955 (London, 1985), p. 676.
33. Wayne Reynolds, Australia's Bid for the Atomic Bomb (Melbourne, 2000).
34. See Donald Denoon, ed., The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders (Cambridge, 1997), ch. 10.
35. John Wiseman, Global Nation?: Australia and the Politics of Globalisation (Cambridge, 1998), p. 53.
36. nd edn, Sydney, 1992), p. 71.
37. And 60 per cent by the end of the decade. The Economist, 13 June 1998, p. 101.
38. Neville Meaney, "The End of 'White Australia' and Australia's Changing Perceptions of Asia, 1945-1990", Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 49 (1995), pp. 171-89, quoting from p. 171.
39. W.K. Hancock, Australia (London, 1930), p. 77.
40. Christopher Waters, The Empire Fractures: Anglo-Australian Conflict in the 1940s (Melbourne, 1995).
41. Geoffrey Sherrington, A ustralia's Immigrants, 1788-1988 (2nd edn, Sydney, 1990), p. 149.
42. Quoted in David Day, The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1939-42 (Melbourne, 1988), p. 325.
43. Quoted in Sherrington, Australia 's Immigrants, p. 129.
44. See Meaney, "The End of 'White Australia'", pp. 181-3.