Joan Beaumont: Australia's War 1939-45

Cover: 9781864480399 | Australia's War 1939-45 | Joan Beaumont | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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The Second World War was a dominant experience in Australian history. For the first time the country faced the threat of invasion. The economy and society were mobilised to an unprecedented degree, with 550 000 men and women, or one in twelve of a population of over 7 million, serving in the armed forces overseas. Social patterns and family life were disrupted. Politically, the war gave a new legitimacy to the Australian Labor Party which had been confined to the wilderness of the Opposition at the Federal level for most of the inter-war years. The powers of the Federal government increased and a new momentum for social reform was generated at the popular and governmental level. In the international sphere, the war fundamentally shook Australian confidence in the power on which it had relied for generations, Great Britain. It generated a sense of independence in Australian foreign policy and initiated a new, if halting and problematic, realignment towards the United States.

In this accessible book Joan Beaumont, Kate Darian-Smith, David Lee, David Lowe, Marnie Haig-Muir, Roy Hay and David Walker consider the range of Australia's experience of this conflict. In a single volume they draw together the many aspects of the war and distil the current state of historical scholarship.

Australia's War 1939-45 will be invaluable to tertiary students and of enormous interest to the reader concerned with the social, political and military history of Australia. A companion volume on the First World War is also available.

Über den Autor

Joan Beaumont is the editor of the highly successful Australia's War 1914-18 and Professor of History at Deakin University. The six contributors teach history, Australian studies and international relations.

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Acknowledgments

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Contributors

Chronology of the war

Introduction JOAN BEAUMONT

1 Australia's war: Europe and the Middle East JOAN BEAUMONT

2 Australia's war: Asia and the Pacific JOAN BEAUMONT

3 War and Australian society: KATE DARIAN-SMITH

4 The politics of war DAVID LEE

5 The economy at war MARNIE HAIG-MUIR AND ROY HAY

6 The writers' war DAVID WALKER

7 Australia in the world DAVID LOWE

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Erscheinungsjahr:	1996
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781864480399
ISBN-10:	1864480394
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Beaumont, Joan
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Joan Beaumont
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.1996
Gewicht:	0,327 kg