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The Empire's Patriotic Fund - Public Benevolence and the Boer War in an Australian Colony (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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The Empire's Patriotic Fund - Public Benevolence and the Boer War in an Australian Colony (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book examines the Empire's Patriotic Fund, established in
Victoria, Australia, in 1901 to assist the dependants of the men
serving in the Boer War and the men invalided home because of
wounds or illness. Acting as an autonomous body and drawing on
funds raised through a public appeal, its work marked one of the
first attempts in Australia to deal with the consequences of
Australian participation in a sustained war. This is the first full
study of an Australian fund established to support those affected
by a sustained war being fought for Empire by Australians. Rather
than casting those affected by war as victims, John McQuilton
examines how a body of middle class men attempted to come to grips
with an experience that lay outside prevailing notions of social
welfare. Based on applications submitted to the Empire's Patriotic
Fund where both class and gender played their roles, this book
opens up further study of such funds and the question of
antecedents in the history of repatriation in Australia in the
early twentieth century.
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