Britishness in regent Australian historiography

Historical Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1145-1155

  Gare, Deborah ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 33745244974     PISSN: 0018246X     EISSN: 14695103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X00001564     Document Type: Review

References (80)

1. Australians: a historical library (11 vols., Sydney, 1987).
2. There were approximately four hundred contributors to the official history project, Australians.
3. Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee, eds., 4 volumes: Constructing a culture, Staining the wattle, A most valuable acquisition, and Making a life (Fitzroy, 1988).
4. John Rickard, Australia: a cultural history (London and New York, 1988).
5. Other examples of Australian histories at the time, providing special attention to cultural and social issues, are John Molony, The Penguin bicentennial history of Australia: the story of 200 years (Ringwood, 1987);
6. and Geoffrey Bolton, gen. ed., The Oxford history of Australia (4 vols., Melbourne, 1986-90).
7. E. M. Andrews, The Anzac illusion: Anglo-Australian relations during World War 1 (Cambridge, 1993).
8. John Masefield, cited in Richard White, Inventing Australia: images and identity, 1688-1980 (North Sydney, 1981), p. 129.
9. C. E. W. Bean cited in Andrews, Anzac illusion, p. 62.
10. White, Inventing Australia, p. 129;
11. see also Rickard, Australia, p. 119.
12. Andrews, Anzac illusion, p. 63.
13. Ibid., pp. 149, 150.
14. Ibid., p. 62.
15. Ibid., p. 7.
16. Ibid., p. 165.
17. Ibid., p. 166.
18. C. E. W. Bean, cited in ibid., p. 167.
19. Ibid., p. 167.
20. Ibid., p. 168.
21. Ibid., p. 168.
22. Rickard, Australia, p. 119.
23. l Andrews, Anzac illusion, p. xiv.
24. Geoffrey Partington, The Australian nation: its British and Irish roots (2nd edn, New Brunswick, 1997).
25. Ibid., p. xvii.
26. Neville Meaney, 'Introduction: "sidere mens eadem mutato"?', in Neville Meaney, ed., Under new heavens: cultural transmission and the making of Australia (Port Melbourne, 1989), p. 3.
27. Partington, Australian nation, p. xx.
28. W. J. Hudson, 'Strategy for survival', in M. McKernan and M. Browne, eds., Australia: two centuries of war and peace (Canberra, 1988), p. 32.
29. Ibid., p. 32.
30. Ibid., p. 32.
31. Andrew Fisher, cited in Rickard, Australia, p. 119.
32. Andrews, The Anzac illusion, pp. 36-9.
33. Ibid., p. 38.
34. Ibid., p. 45.
35. Ibid., p. 55.
36. Oliver Hogue, cited in ibid., p. 48.
37. Ibid., pp. 53, 54.
38. Unnamed soldier cited in ibid., p. 175.
39. M. McKernan, The Australian people in the Great War (West Melbourne, 1980), p. 116.
40. Ibid., p. 116;
41. see also Andrews, Anzac illusion, p. 181.
42. McKernan, Australian people, pp. 116-18;
43. and Andrews, Anzac illusion, pp. 179-81.
44. Andrews, Anzac illusion, pp. 180, 181.
45. Ibid., p. 185.
46. McKernan, Australian people, p. 117.
47. Cited in Joan Beaumont, 'Australia's war: Asia and the Pacific', in Joan Beaumont, ed., Australia's war, 1939-1945 (St Leonards, 1996), p. 30.
48. David Day, Menzies and Churchill at war: a controversial new account of the 1941 struggle for power (North Ryde, 1986);
49. David Day, The great betrayal: Britain, Australia and the onset of the Pacific war, 1939-1942 (North Ryde, 1988);
50. David Day, Reluctant nation: Australia and the allied defeat of Japan, 1942-1945 (Melbourne, 1992).
51. Daily Telegraph Mirror, 28 Feb. 1992, p. 11.
52. Day, Great betrayal, dustjacket.
53. David Day, 'Loosening the bonds: Britain, Australia and the Second World War', History Today, 38 (1988), p. 17.
54. Ibid., p. 17.
55. Beaumont, 'Asia and the Pacific', p. 29.
56. Ibid., p. 33.
57. Geoffrey Blainey, A shorter history of Australia (Port Melbourne, 1994), p. 183.
58. Notwithstanding the contentions of some that this process is yet to end without the constitutional removal of the monarchy.
59. Christopher Waters, 'Conflict with Britain in the 1940s', in David Lowe, ed., Australia and the end of empires: the impact of decolonisation in Australia's near north, 1945-1965 (Geelong, 1996), p. 69.
60. Christopher Waters, The empire fractures: Anglo-Australian conflict in the 1940s (Melbourne, 1995), p. 10.
61. Ibid., p. 5.
62. Ibid., p. 6.
63. See David Lowe, 'Australia in the world', in Beaumont, ed., Australia's war, pp. 162-86.
64. Waters, Empire fractures, pp. 18, 15.
65. Ibid., p. 3.
66. Ibid., p. 194.
67. l Ibid., pp. 193-4.
68. Waters, '1940s conflict', p. 77.
69. For gradual Australian separation from Britain see also Geoffrey Bolton, The Oxford history of Australia, volume 5, 1942-1988, the middle way (Melbourne, 1990).
70. Mark McKenna, The captive republic: a history of Australian republicanism, 1788-1996 (Melbourne, 1996).
71. See also Rickard, Australia, p. 115, for discussion of nineteenth-century republicanism.
72. McKenna, Captive republic, p. 8.
73. Ibid., p. 40.
74. Ibid., p. 58.
75. Ibid., p. 58.
76. Ibid., p. 32.
77. Ibid., pp. 219, 221.
78. Les Murray cited in ibid., p. 236.
79. See also Keating, cited in ibid., p. 262.
80. Ibid., pp. 259, 260.