Download or read book Isolationism and Appeasement in Australia written by Eric Montgomery Andrews and published by Columbia : University of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Isolationism and Appeasement in Australia written by Eric Montgomery Andrews and published by Columbia : University of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Australia and Appeasement written by Christopher Waters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Germany. He outlined how every effort had been made to maintain the peace by keeping the door open to a negotiated settlement. However, as these efforts had failed, the British Empire was now 'involved in a struggle which we must at all costs win, and which we believe in our hearts we will win'. Christopher Waters here examines Australia's role in Britain's policy of appeasement from the time Hitler came to power in 1933 through to the declaration of war in September 1939. Focusing on the five leading figures in the Australian governments of the 1930s - Joe Lyons, Stanley Bruce, Robert Menzies, Billy Hughes and Richard Casey - Waters examines their responses to the rise of Hitler and the growing threat of fascism in Europe. Australian governments accepted the principle that the Empire must speak with one voice on foreign policy and were therefore intimately involved in the decisions taken by successive governments in London. As such, this book provides new insights into the making of imperial foreign policy in the inter-war era, imperial history, the origins of World War II and Australian history.

Download or read book A Concise History of Australia written by Stuart Macintyre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth edition investigates the key factors - social, economic and political - that continue to shape modern-day Australia.

Download or read book Curtin s Empire written by James Curran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Curtin remains a venerated leader. His role as Labor's wartime supremo is etched deep into the national psyche: the man who put Australia first, locked horns with Churchill, forged the alliance with the United States and became the saviour of the nation in its darkest hour. Drawing on new archival material including sensitive and private correspondence from Curtin never before seen or quoted, Curtin's Empire shows that this British world vision was not imposed on him from abroad, rather it animated Curtin from deep within. Since entering politics Curtin had fought a bitter battle with his opponents - both inside and outside his party - over loyalty, identity and national security. At stake was how he and his party related to the defining idea of Australian politics for their times: Britishness.

Download or read book Imperial Sunset written by Max Beloff and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the British Empire, this study examines its transition into the Commonwealth, its policies towards defence, the effect of the world depression, the moves towards trusteeship and indirect rule, its part in World War II and the prospects for the future.

Download or read book Taking the Revolution Home written by Joyce Stevens and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problems faced by Aboriginal women discussed in articles appearing in "Women Today."

Download or read book American Umpire written by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commentators call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, often a destructive empire. In American Umpire Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman asserts instead that America has performed the role of umpire since 1776, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned broad approval, and violating them as well.

Download or read book Parliament and Politics in Australia written by Paul Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Australia in the Emerging Global Order written by Darvesh Gopal and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At The Dawn Of The New Millennium, Australia Is At Crossroads Seeking Redefinition Of Its Identity. Its Traditional Commitment To The Western Alliance System With Its Recently Evolving Inclination To Seek An Identity In The Asia Pacific Has Placed The Is

Download or read book Australia and the Jewish Refugees 1933 1948 written by Michael Blakeney and published by Sydney, NSW : Croom Helm Australia. This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian reluctance to accept Jewish refugees before and during World War II was connected to traditional immigration policies intended to ensure a "White Australia" and barring "genetically undesirable races." Traces the history of cultural and intellectual antisemitism in Australia, often originating in Britain, and of Social Darwinist and right-wing nationalist ideas and their influence on immigration policies before and after 1933. Unemployment caused by the depression (and often blamed on Jewish financial machinations) aroused fears of being swamped by hordes of Jewish refugees. The official Jewish community acquiesced in these fears. As a result, only 7500 refugees reached Australia before 1941. Even after the war, the public and press opposed entry of Jewish refugees.

Download or read book Australian Journal of Political Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book APAIS Australian Public Affairs Information Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1963 includes section Current Australian serials; a subject list.

Download or read book The Bell of Treason written by P. E. Caquet and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined material, this staggering account sheds new light on the Allies’ responsibility for a landmark agreement that had dire consequences. On returning from Germany on September 30, 1938, after signing an agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain addressed the British crowds: “My good friends…I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” Winston Churchill rejoined: “You have chosen dishonor and you will have war.” P. E. Caquet’s history of the events leading to the Munich Agreement and its aftermath is told for the first time from the point of view of the peoples of Czechoslovakia. Basing his work on previously unexamined sources, including press, memoirs, private journals, army plans, cabinet records, and radio, Caquet presents one of the most shameful episodes in modern European history. Among his most explosive revelations is the strength of the French and Czechoslovak forces before Munich; Germany’s dominance turns out to have been an illusion. The case for appeasement never existed. The result is a nail-biting story of diplomatic intrigue, perhaps the nearest thing to a morality play that history ever furnishes. The Czechoslovak authorities were Cassandras in their own country, the only ones who could see Hitler’s threat for what it was, and appeasement as the disaster it proved to be. In Caquet’s devastating account, their doomed struggle against extinction and the complacency of their notional allies finally gets the memorial it deserves.

Download or read book Jack Lang written by Heather Radi and published by Neutral Bay [Australia] : Hale & Iremonger. This book was released on 1977 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labour Premier twice, and twice expelled from the ALP. Drawing upon contemporary records, this book covers the rise and fall of Jack Lang from 1903 onwards.

Download or read book Australia 1939 written by Susan Johnston and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society written by Royal Australian Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Society's Annual report and statement of accounts.