Australia's empire
By: [edited by] Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward.
Contributors: Schreuder, D. M.; Ward, Stuart.
Series: The Oxford history of the British Empire; Oxford history of the British Empire companion series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780199273737
Subjects: National characteristics, Australian.; Nationalism -- Australia -- History.; Imperialism -- History.; Australia -- History.; Australia -- Colonial influence.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Australia.; Australia -- Foreign relations.; Australia -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: What became of Australia's empire? / Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward; value: The saga of Captain Cook / Hobbles Danaiyarri; value: Conquest / Alan Atkinson; value: Settling the land : the making of rural Australia / Richard Waterhouse; value: Indigenous subjects / Ann Curthoys; value: Art and the environment : new visions from old / Anne Gray; value: Empire, state, nation / John Hirst; value: Migrations : the career of White British Australia / Eric Richards; value: Religion and identity / Hilary M. Carey; value: Money : trade, investment, and Australian nationalism / Geoffrey Bolton; value: Security : defending Australia's empire / Stuart Ward; value: Monarchy : from reverence to indifference / Mark McKenna; value: War and commemoration : 'the responsibility of empire' / Joy Damousi; value: Gender and sexuality / Angela Woollacott; value: Popular culture / Richard White and Hsu-Ming Teo; value: 'In history's page' : identity and myth / Neville Meaney; value: Epilogue: After empire / Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward.