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Using archival materials from all three nations, this first
comparative study of French and Italian relations with the United
States during the early Cold War shows that French and Italian
ambitions of status, or prestige, crucially affected the formation
of the Western Alliance. While attention to outside appearances had
a long historic tradition for both European nations, the notion was
compounded by their humiliation in World War II and their
consequent fear of further demotion. Only by promoting an American
hegemony over Europe could France and Italy aspire respectively to
attain continental leadership and equality with the other great
European powers. For its part, Washington carefully calibrated
concessions of mere status with the more substantial issues of
international roles.
A recent trend in both U.S. and European historiography of the
Cold War has emphasized the role that America's allies had in
shaping the post-World War II international system. Combining
diplomatic, strategic, economic, and cultural insights, and
reassessing the main events from post-war reconstruction to the
Middle Eastern crises of the late 1950s, Brogi reaches two major
conclusions: that the United States helped the two allies to
recover enough self-esteem to cope with their own decline; and that
both the French and the Italian leaders, with constant pressure
from Washington, progressively adapted to a notion of prestige no
longer based solely on nationalism, but also on their capacity to
promote, or even master, continental integration. With this focus
on image, Brogi finally suggests a background to today's changing
patterns of international relations, as civilizational values
become increasingly important at the expense of more familiar
indices of economic and military power.
The stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation
to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained
storytellers either formally at the high chief's court or
informally at family gatherings. Their chronology was ordered by a
ruler's genealogy, which, in the case of the pua ali'i (flower of
royalty), was illustrious and far reaching and could be traced to
one of the four great gods of Polynesia - Kane, Ku, Lono, and
Kanaloa. In these legends, Hawaiians of old sought answers to the
questions "Who are we?" "Who are our ancestors and where do they
come from?" "What lessons can be learned from their conduct?" Na
Pua Ali'i o Kaua'i presents the stories of the men and women who
ruled the island of Kaua'i from its first settlement to the final
rebellion against Kamehameha I's forces in 1824. Only fragments
remain of the nearly two-thousand-year history of the people who
inhabited Kaua'i before the coming of James Cook in 1778. Now
scattered in public and private archives and libraries, these
pieces of Hawai'i's precontact past were recorded in the nineteenth
century by such determined individuals as David Malo, Samuel
Kamakau, and Abraham Fornander. All known genealogical references
to the Kaua'i ali'i nui (paramount chiefs) have been gathered here
and placed in chronological order and are interspersed with legends
of great voyages, bitter wars, courageous heroes, and passionate
romances that together form a rich and invaluable resource.
People and Change in Australia arose from a conviction that more
needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the
changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous
communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion
remains embedded in traditionalizing views of indigenous people,
and in accounts that seem to underline essential and apparently
timeless difference. In this volume the editors and contributors
assume that "the person" is socially defined and reconfigured as
contexts change, both immediate and historical. Essays in this
collection are grounded in Australian locales commonly termed
"remote." These indigenous communities were largely established as
residential concentrations by Australian governments, some first as
missions, most in areas that many of the indigenous people involved
consider their homelands. A number of these settlements were
located in proximity to settler industries including pastoralism,
market-gardening, and mining. These are the locales that many
non-indigenous Australians think of as the homes of the most
traditional indigenous communities and people. The contributors
discuss the changing circumstances of indigenous people who
originate from such places. Some remain, while others travel far
afield. The accounts reveal a diversity of experiences and
histories that involve major dynamics of disembedding from country
and home locales, and re-embedding in new contexts, and
reconfigurations of relatedness. The essays explore dimensions of
change and continuity in childhood experience and socialization in
a desert community; the influence of Christianity in fostering both
individuation and relatedness in northeast Arnhem Land; the
diaspora of Central Australian Warlpiri people to cities and the
forms of life and livelihood they make there; adolescent
experiences of schooling away from home communities; youth in
kin-based heavy metal gangs configuring new identities, and
indigenous people of southeast Australia reflecting on whether an
"Aboriginal way" can be sustained. The volume takes a step toward
understanding the relation between changing circumstances and
changing lives of indigenous Australians today and provides a sense
of the quality and the feel of those lives.
This book reconstructs the history of a group of British Quaker
families and their involvement in the process of settler
colonialism in early nineteenth-century Australia. Their everyday
actions contributed to the multiplicity of practices that displaced
and annihilated Aboriginal communities. Simultaneously, early
nineteenth-century Friends were members of a translocal,
transatlantic community characterized by pacifism and an
involvement in transnational humanitarian efforts, such as the
abolitionist and the prison reform movements as well as the
Aborigines Protection Society. Considering these ideals, how did
Quakers negotiate the violence of the frontier? To answer this
question, the book looks at Tasmanian and South Australian Quakers'
lives and experiences, their journeys and their writings. Building
on recent scholarship on the entanglement between the local and the
global, each chapter adopts a different historical perspective in
terms of breadth and focused time period. The study combines these
different takes to capture the complexities of this topic and era.
The Gallipoli expedition was the bold and audacious plan of Winston
Churchill, amongst others, to force the Dardanelles narrows, by sea
and by land, to capture Constantinople from the Turks and to open
the Black Sea to ships taking supplies and arms for the Russians on
their immense German front. The campaign failed with catastrophic
loss of life on all sides, but again and again, unbeknown to the
Allies, they came close to achieving a goal that might have led to
victory overall. This book, first published in 1956, is still
regarded as the best and definitive account of the campaign. It won
the Sunday Times Best Book of the Year Award as well as the
inaugural Duff Cooper prize when the winner could choose who would
present the award. Appropriately enough, Moorehead chose Churchill
to make the presentation because the book demonstrated that the
faults were not in the conception of the plan. Indeed, long after
Churchill had resigned in disgrace, a new fleet was being assembled
to again attempt to force the Dardanelles in 1919, which was
cancelled when the war ceased and the Armistice was signed. Seen in
the new light that Moorehead revealed, the Gallipoli campaign was
no longer regarded as a blunder or a reckless gamble; it was the
most imaginative conception of the war, and its potentialities were
almost beyond reckoning. Certainly in its strictly military aspect
its influence was enormous. It was the greatest amphibious
operation which mankind had known up till then, and it took place
in circumstances in which nearly everything was experimental: in
the use of submarines and aircraft, in the trial of modern naval
guns against artillery on the shore, in the manoeuvre of landing
armies in small boats on a hostile coast, in the use of radio, or
the aerial bomb, the landmine, and many other novel devices. These
things lead on through Dunkirk and the Mediterranean landings to
the invasion of Normandy in the Second World War. In 1940 there was
very little the Allied commanders could learn from the long
struggle against the Kaiser's armies in the trenches in France. But
Gallipoli was a mine of information about the complexities of the
modern war of manoeuvre, of the combined operation by land and sea
and sky; and the correction of the errors made then was the basis
of the victory of 1945. "the story of one of the great military
tragedies of the twentieth century, which no writer has described
better than Alan Moorehead." Sir Max Hastings.
When Matthew Flinders set out in 1801 to carry out a 'complete
examination and survey' of the coast of New Holland, little did he
know that he would be away for over ten years. Although he did not
coin the term 'Australia' he keenly advocated its use, rather than
the clumsy 'Terra Australis', and will always be associated with
its adoption. As well as his meticulous surveys and maps, he made
many observations on ship-board life, flora and fauna, and the
appearance and customs of the native peoples he encountered. Volume
2 deals with the second half of his Australian survey, followed by
his incarceration on Mauritius for over 6 years by the French, and
his eventual release and return to England.
When Matthew Flinders set out in 1801 to carry out a 'complete
examination and survey' of the coast of New Holland, little did he
know that he would be away for over ten years. Although he did not
coin the term 'Australia' he keenly advocated its use, rather than
the clumsy 'Terra Australis' and will always be associated with its
adoption. As well as his meticulous surveys and maps, he made many
observations on ship-board life, flora and fauna, and the
appearance and customs of the native peoples he encountered. Volume
1 starts with a thorough review of previous exploratory voyages to
the great Southern continent, and then proceeds to describe the
first part of his journey, from Portsmouth to Port Jackson
(Sydney).
Australia's Prime Minister and premier diplomat in the 1930/1940s,
this new biography presents him as a consistent internationalist
and places him in a global context. Stanley Melbourne Bruce was at
the centre of Imperial politics for more than two decades from the
early 1920s until the end of the Second World War. This new
biography presents Bruce as a consistent internationalist. Educated
in Melbourne and Cambridge, Bruce, as a businessman, was alive to
the importance of international commerce, and particularly
Anglo-Australian trade. This lay at the core of his
internationalism, which took the form in the 1920s of encouraging
the political and economic integration of the British Empire.
Bruce's punitive treatment of militant Australian trade unionists
and his upholding of constitutionalism and law and order in the
1920s was part of an effort to defend one form of internationalism,
commitment to the British Empire, against the competing
international ideology of communism. While continuing to support a
unified British Empire acting as a progressive force in world
affairs, Bruce championed stronger international collaboration
through the League of Nations and the United Nations and through
cooperation between the Empire and the United States.
is an important book for the study of Korean Christianity in
Australia and New Zealand. This important book contains 8 articles
by Korean Christian clergy and scholars who have experienced the
vibrancy of Korean Christianity in Australia and New Zealand. Many
of these scholars have been participants in the history-making
process. This book, therefore, is an indispensable resource for
scholars, pastors, lay people, and interested public who want to
understand the experience of Korean Christians better. The editor,
Yong-Sun Yang, is Professor of Systematic Theology at Wesley
Institute in Sydney, Australia.
This volume provides a unique and critical perspective on how
Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars engage and critique the West
in their historical thinking. It showcases the dialogue between
Asian experts and their Euro-American counterparts and offers
valuable insights on how to challenge and overcome Eurocentrism in
historical writing.
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... we rarely travel far to swim. We occasionally cross the river
to Leighton or Cottesloe, where the white sand squeaks underfoot
and the champagne foam in the shallows tingles the legs and fizzes
over the shoreline and makes children giddy with delight.
Mid-morning, before the sun passes overhead and shears off the
ocean, the cirrus clouds above the horizon often resemble passages
of perfect cursive script written in soft white lines against the
bluest page. This is the picture of a Perth in harmony with the
stillness and space and silence that is its truest personality, the
only prick of drama being the spotter plane of the shark patrol
crawling over the sky. David Whish-Wilson's Perth - the river, the
coast, the plain and the light - is a place where deeper historical
currents are never far beneath the surface and cannot be ignored.
Like the Swan River that can flow in two directions at once, with
the fresh water flowing seawards above the salty water flowing in
beneath, Perth strikes perfect harmony with the city's
contradictions and eccentricities. Whish-Wilson takes us beyond the
near-constant sunshine, shiny glass facades, and boosterish talk of
mining booms and the gloom after the bust. Lyrical and sensitive,
Whish-Wilson introduces his readers to the richness of the natural
world and the trailblazers, the rebels, the occasional ghost and
the ordinary people that bring Australia's remotest capital city to
life. He reminds us that while the city's boundaries are porous as
people come and go, rates of Indigenous incarceration are high.
Carefully researched and full of personal reminiscences - including
many about fishing - and eye-opening facts, Perth now has a
remarkable new Postscript. Here Whish-Wilson returns to the city's
ghosts - some human, others the ancient jarrah trees, wildflowers
and wild birds that once flourished but no longer. And, as he walks
across the new Matagarup Bridge to watch the footy he reflects on
the city his children will inherit. New edition of a classic with a
new Postscript in which Whish-Wilson returns to the ghosts and
memories of his city and reflects on how much it has changed since
his book was first published in 2013 A beautiful portrait of Perth
that will move outsiders to revisit their preconceptions about the
place and inspire residents to renew their connections Acclaimed
for its poetic writing Author's reputation as a crime writer
growing with four thrillers -all set in Perth - out with Fremantle
since the publication of Perth Will be supported by major media and
publicity campaign
George Worgan was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the
First Fleet to Australia. He made expeditions to the Hawkesbury
River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on
Norfolk Island after his was shipwrecked there. Although he kept a
journal, it was not published on his return, unlike his
contemporary, Watkin Tench. This book consists of letters to his
brother in England, written in 1788, the second letter journaling
the first six months after the First Fleet's arrival in Sydney
Cove.
During 1928-9 the renowned anthropologist Raymond Firth visited
Tikopia, a small island in the east of Solomon Islands, for the
first time. This book takes the collection he made as its subject,
and explores how through its acquisition, Firth ceased to be a
stranger and became a respected figure incorporated into Tikopia
society. The objects were originally viewed by Firth as data in a
scientific record of a culture, and evidence challenging the belief
that complex economic transactions could only take place in a
recognizable market economy. Elizabeth Bonshek, however, revisits
the collection's documentation and the ethnography of Tikopia with
a different intent in mind: to highlight the social relations the
collecting process illuminates and to acknowledge Tikopia voices,
past and present. She argues that Firth downplayed the impact of
contact with outsiders - whalers, traders and missionaries calling
for the abandonment of the Work of the Gods - yet this context is
vital for understanding why local people actively contributed to
his collecting and research. She follows the life of the collection
after leaving the island in institutions that attributed different
meanings to its significance, in a failed repatriation request and
in a new role in the transmission of 'cultural heritage' along with
Firth's writings. She concludes that Firth's exchanges of objects
with other high-ranking men were culturally appropriate to the
social values dominant in that time and place. Indeed, she suggests
that while Firth was acquiring Tikopia artefacts, the Tikopia were
perhaps acquiring him. On what ethical and economic terms does an
anthropologist acquire other people's things? Collecting Tikopia
deftly applies the insights of contemporary material culture
studies to a historically important case. Bonshek coaxes
ethnographic documents and museum artefacts to reveal how objects
both materialize cultural identities over time and mediate social
relations across worlds of difference. Professor Robert Foster,
University of Rochester, President of the Society for Cultural
Anthropology. Richly supported by documentation this skilful and
insightful analysis reveals the complexity of cross-cultural
interactions and highlights important concerns for the
interpretation and management of cultural heritage in museum
'treasure places' worldwide. Dr Robin Torrence, Senior Principal
Research Scientist, Anthropology Research, Australian Museum.
This book explores the dynamics of Anglo-Australian cricketing
relations within the 'British World' in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. It explores what these interactions can
tell us about broader Anglo-Australian relations during this period
and, in particular, the evolution of an Australian national
identity. Sport was, and is, a key aspect of Australian culture.
Jared van Duinen demonstrates how sport was used to rehearse an
identity that would then emerge in broader cultural and political
terms. Using cricket as a case study, this book contributes to the
ongoing historiographical debate about the nature and evolution of
an Australian national identity.
Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion
surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during
the First World War. Based on letters and diaries of Australian
soldiers, it traces the history of work and workplace cultures
through Australia, the shores of Gallipoli, the fields of France
and Belgium, and the Near East.
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