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Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 explores the queer
dynamics of war across Australia and forward bases in the south
seas. It examines relationships involving Allied servicemen,
civilians and between the legal and medical fraternities that
sought to regulate and contain expressions of homosex in and out of
the forces.
Despite intense concern among academics and advocates, there is a
deeply felt absence of scholarship on the way media reporting
exacerbates rather than helps to resolve policy problems. This book
offers rich insights into the news media's role in the development
of policy in Australia, and explores the complex, dynamic and
interactive relationship between news media and Australian
Indigenous affairs. Spanning a twenty-year period from 1988 to
2008, Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller critically examine how
Indigenous health, bilingual education and controversial
legislation were portrayed through public media. The Dynamics of
News and Indigenous Policy in Australia provides evidence of
Indigenous people being excluded from policy and media discussion,
as well as using the media to their advantage. To that end, the
book poses the question: just how far was the media manipulating
the national conversation? And how far was it, in turn, being
manipulated by those in power? A decade after the Australian
government introduced the controversial 2007 Northern Territory
Emergency Response Act, McCallum and Waller offer a ground-breaking
look at the media's role in Indigenous issues and asks: to what
extent did journalism exacerbate policy issues, and how far were
their effects felt in Indigenous communities?
A History of New Zealand Literature traces the genealogy of New
Zealand literature from its first imaginings by Europeans in the
eighteenth century. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction
that charts the growth of, and challenges to, a nationalist
literary tradition, the essays in this History illuminate the
cultural and political intricacies of New Zealand literature,
surveying the multilayered verse, fiction and drama of such diverse
writers as Katherine Mansfield, Allen Curnow, Frank Sargeson, Janet
Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace. Written by a
host of leading scholars, this History devotes special attention to
the lasting significance of colonialism, biculturalism and
multiculturalism in New Zealand literature. A History of New
Zealand Literature is of pivotal importance to the development of
New Zealand writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for
specialists and students alike.
Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory explores
the transformation of Gallipoli's landscape in antiquity, during
the famed battles of the First World War and in the present day.
Drawing on archival, archaeological and cartographic material, this
book unearths the deep history of the Gallipoli peninsula, setting
the Gallipoli campaign in a broader cultural and historical
context. The book presents the results of an original
archaeological survey, the research for which was supported by the
Australian, New Zealand and Turkish Governments. The survey
examines materials from both sides of the battlefield, and sheds
new light on the environment in which Anzac and Turkish soldiers
endured the conflict. Richly illustrated with both Ottoman and
Anzac archival images and maps, as well as original maps and
photographs of the landscape and archaeological findings, Anzac
Battlefield is an important contribution to our understanding of
Gallipoli and its landscape of war and memory.
This book charts the previously untold story of decolonisation in
the oceanic world of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand,
presenting it both as an indigenous and an international
phenomenon. Tracey Banivanua Mar reveals how the inherent limits of
decolonisation were laid bare by the historical peculiarities of
colonialism in the region, and demonstrates the way imperial powers
conceived of decolonisation as a new form of imperialism. She shows
how Indigenous peoples responded to these limits by developing rich
intellectual, political and cultural networks transcending colonial
and national borders, with localised traditions of protest and
dialogue connected to the global ferment of the twentieth century.
The individual stories told here shed new light on the forces that
shaped twentieth-century global history, and reconfigure the
history of decolonisation, presenting it not as an historic event,
but as a fragile, contingent and ongoing process continuing well
into the postcolonial era.
Der Autor untersucht die ubergeordnete Rolle, die der Erste
Weltkrieg in der "kurzen" Geschichte Australiens spielt. Dieser
Krieg und der in seiner Folge entstandene Anzac-Mythos besitzen
seit der Landung australischer Truppen auf der Gallipoli-Halbinsel
am 25. April 1915 eine herausgehobene Stellung im
Geschichtsbewusstsein vieler Australierinnen und Australier. Das
Buch zeigt auf, wie sich dies in der Geschichtskultur des Landes
manifestiert hat. Der Autor analysiert den diachronen Wandel der
Objektivationen des Geschichtsbewusstseins (beispielsweise
Gedenktage, Denkmale oder Filme) und ermoeglicht so ein besseres
Verstandnis der Geschichte und Kultur Australiens.
In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory
studies, Joy Damousi considers the enduring impact of war on family
memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek
immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek
Civil War, the book explores the concept of remembrance within the
larger context of migration to show how intergenerational
experience of war and trauma transcend both place and nation.
Drawing from the most recent research in memory, trauma and
transnationalism, Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War deals
with the continuities and discontinuities of war stories,
assimilation in modern Australia, politics and activism, child
migration and memories of mothers and children in war. Damousi
sheds new light on aspects of forgotten memory and silence within
families and communities, and in particular the ways in which past
experience of violence and tragedy is both negotiated and
processed.
Davida Malo's Mo'olelo Hawai'i is the single most important
description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795,
twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawai'i,
wrote about everything from traditional cosmology and accounts of
ancestral chiefs to religion and government to traditional
amusements. The heart of this two-volume work is a new, critically
edited text of Malo's original Hawaiian, including the manuscript
known as the "Carter copy," handwritten by him and two helpers in
the decade before his death in 1853. Volume 1 provides images of
the original text, side by side with the new edited text. Volume 2
presents the edited Hawaiian text side by side with a new annotated
English translation. Malo's text has been edited at two levels.
First, the Hawaiian has been edited through a careful comparison of
all the extant manuscripts, attempting to restore Malo's original
text, with explanations of the editing choices given in the
footnotes. Second, the orthography of the Hawaiian text has been
modernized to help today's readers of Hawaiian by adding
diacritical marks ('okina and kahako, or glottal stop and macron,
respectively) and the punctuation has been revised to signal the
end of clauses and sentences. The new English translation attempts
to remain faithful to the edited Hawaiian text while avoiding
awkwardness in the English. Both volumes contain substantial
introductions. The introduction to Volume 1 (in Hawaiian) discusses
the manuscripts of Malo's text and their history. The introduction
to Volume 2 contains two essays that provide context to help the
reader understand Malo's Moolelo Hawaii. "Understanding Malo's
Moolelo Hawaii" describes the nature of Malo's work, showing that
it is the result of his dual Hawaiian and Western education. "The
Writing of the Moolelo Hawaii" discusses how the Carter copy was
written and preserved, its relationship to other versions of the
text, and Malo's plan for the work as a whole. The introduction is
followed by a new biography of Malo by Kanaka Maoli historian
Noelani Arista, "Davida Malo, a Hawaiian Life," describing his life
as a chiefly counselor and Hawaiian intellectual.
This work, first published in 1789, is an edited compilation of
official papers, journals and illustrations relevant to the voyage
of the First Fleet to Australia and the founding of Port Jackson on
Sydney Cove, and of the penal colony of Norfolk Island. Arthur
Phillip (1738-1814), a sailor of wide experience in both the Royal
Navy and the Portuguese fleet, accepted the post of commander of
the fleet and governor of the new colony in 1786, and the eleven
ships arrived in Botany Bay in January 1788. This account begins
with a note on Phillip's career, and discusses earlier British
colonisation, before describing the preparations for, and progress
of, the voyage. The fascinating documentation continues with
materials on the founding of the colony, problems with the convict
workmen, encounters with native Australians, and with the local
wildlife, all illustrations of the birth of one of the world's
great cities.
This important collection, published in two volumes in 1770-1 and
reissued here in one, contains accounts of notable Iberian and
Dutch voyages in the southern hemisphere, translated and edited by
Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808). Hydrographer to the Admiralty from
1795, Dalrymple produced this work as part of his research into the
belief at the time that there existed an undiscovered continent in
the South Pacific. These volumes were intended to demonstrate the
knowledge of the region to date. The first volume covers
sixteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese voyages, beginning with
Ferdinand Magellan and including those of Juan Fernandez, Alvaro de
Mendana y Neira and Pedro Fernandes de Queiros. The second volume
contains the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch voyages of
Jacob Le Mair and Willem Schouten, Abel Tasman and Jacob Roggeveen.
This volume also contains a chronological table of discoveries in
the southern hemisphere since 1501.
This book explores a cross-section of war crimes trials that the
Allied powers held against the Japanese in the aftermath of World
War II. More than 2,240 trials against some 5,700 suspected war
criminals were carried out at 51 separate locations across the Asia
Pacific region. This book analyzes fourteen high-profile American,
Australian, British, and Philippine trials, including the two
subsequent proceedings at Tokyo and the Yamashita trial. By delving
into a large body of hitherto underutilized oral and documentary
history of the war as contained in the trial records, Yuma Totani
illuminates diverse firsthand accounts of the war that were offered
by former Japanese and Allied combatants, prisoners of war, and the
civilian population. Furthermore, the author makes a systematic
inquiry into select trials to shed light on a highly complex - and
at times contradictory - legal and jurisprudential legacy of Allied
war crimes prosecutions.
The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in
1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic
entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in
missionary Christianity among influential Maori chiefs had
far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing
cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and
practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he
identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of
cultural engagement, with Maori and missionaries struggling over
hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality. "Entanglements
of Empire" is particularly concerned with how, as a result of their
encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard, Maori
and the English mutually influenced each other's worldviews.
Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand's formal colonization, this
book offers an important contribution to debates over religion and
empire.
From July to September 1916, some 23,000 Australians were killed or
wounded in the Battle of Pozieres. It was the first strategically
important engagement by Australian soldiers on the Western Front
and its casualties exceeded those of any other battle of the First
World War, including Gallipoli. In this important book, Christopher
Wray explores the influence of Pozieres on Australian society and
history, and how it is remembered today. In the opening chapters he
revisits the battle and considers its aftermath, including shell
shock and the psychological effects experienced by surviving
soldiers. The concluding chapters examine the way in which the
battle has been commemorated in literature and art, and the extent
to which it has been overlooked in contemporary remembrance of the
war. Generously illustrated with photographs, maps and paintings,
Pozieres: Echoes of a Distant Battle is essential reading for
anyone interested in the First World War and Australia's post-war
society.
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