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Book Political Ephemera Relating to the Youth Campaign Against Conscription  YCAC

Download or read book Political Ephemera Relating to the Youth Campaign Against Conscription YCAC written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: File contains political ephemera such as handbills, flyers and leaflets.

Book Vietnam  the Australian Dilemma

Download or read book Vietnam the Australian Dilemma written by Terry Burstall and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1993 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harvest Of Fear

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  • Author : John Murphy
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-03-13
  • ISBN : 0429710763
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Harvest Of Fear written by John Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did fears of the Cold War shape Australian images of Asia? What was the nature of the Vietnamese revolution, which some 50 000 Australian troops failed to reverse in the 1960s? How did a small and marginal peace movement grow into the powerful Moratorium and did it have any impact on the course of the War? Harvest of Fear is a beautifully craf

Book The Hillbilly Dictator

Download or read book The Hillbilly Dictator written by Evan Whitton and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Death of a Utopia

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  • Author : Gianni Statera
  • Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Death of a Utopia written by Gianni Statera and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops the first full-scale sociological analysis of the movement which seized public attention in the dramatic days of 1969. The author examines the situation of students in modern industrial society and sets forth the features of modern utopian ideology which moved them to action.

Book A Foolish Passionate Man

Download or read book A Foolish Passionate Man written by Paul Ormonde and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fighting Against War

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  • Author : Julie Kimber
  • Publisher : Leftbank Press/Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
  • Release : 2015-02-13
  • ISBN : 0994238975
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Fighting Against War written by Julie Kimber and published by Leftbank Press/Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extended commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the Great War have commenced in earnest. Over the next four years people around the world will struggle to avoid the politicised public narratives of these remembrances. Nationalistic sentiment is no less palpable today than imperial sentiment was a century ago. Its opponents are still there too. Among the countless commemorative activities that will occur, there are innumerable counter narratives. Although they are compelling in their telling of oppositional stories, they have yet to capture the imagination of the dominant storytellers of our generation. Mainstream media, governments, and politicians of all persuasions, remain a captive of “soft jingoism”, and the myth making of Geoffrey Serle’s “fire-eating generals”. In such a view, war remains a lamentable, but necessary evil. The true costs of war are absorbed only partially. Given the destabilisation of much of the globe, and the increasing militarisation of domestic politics by Western governments, it is unsurprising that a widespread movement for peace is momentarily lost. But history provides hope. By looking back we can see the ebb and flow of peace movements, and the lessons here are instructive. The present commemorative phase provides historians with a license to tell the stories that underscore the feeble fabric of nationalistic hubris – ones that seek to analyse and understand the human condition rather than simply commemorate it. Tales of national re-birth are but one facet of war, complicated by a much richer, dirtier, and more nuanced reality. This reality challenges the necessity of war, and allows us to empathise with war’s victims, elucidate oppositional tactics, and provide explanations for the difficulties in sustaining a pacifist approach in the midst of war. The chapters here deal with aspects of peace and anti-war, of memory, of forgetting, and of legacy. The majority – unsurprisingly, given the present historical moment – concentrate on the experience of the First World War. The shadows of that war are long, and the historiography they build on extensive. Contributors include Phillip Deery, Julie Kimber, Karen Agutter, Anne Beggs Sunter, Robert Bollard, Verity Burgmann, Liam Byrne, Lachlan Clohesy, Rhys Cooper, Carolyn Holbrook, Nick Irving, Chris McConville, Douglas Newton, Bobbie Oliver, Carolyn Rasmussen, Phil Roberts, and Kim Thoday.

Book Into the Mainstream

Download or read book Into the Mainstream written by Tom O'Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are the mighty fallen. At the end of World War II, the Communist Party was a major force in Australian working class life. Yet by the 1980s it had diminished to a demoralised rump. And today it's only a memory. Did the party deserve this fate? Its courage and hard work brought together thousands of working class fighters. It led them in important struggles. But then it inflicted on them the bitterest of disappointments.Into the Mainstream traces the party's decline from an influential movement, plagued by its bureaucratic Stalinist politics, to a shrinking organisation trying desperately to re-invent itself as a radical force, but finally drifting into the political mainstream. The story is set against such historic events as the Cold War, the Sino-Soviet split, and the social radicalisation of the late sixties. It offers lessons for revolutionary activists today

Book Gender and War

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  • Author : Joy Damousi
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780521457101
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Gender and War written by Joy Damousi and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1995 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting 1995 collection of essays explores the inter-relationship of gender and war in Australia. Its focus is women's and men's experiences in WWI, WWII and the Vietnam War. Challenging the traditional images of men and women in wartime, this book shows that war offers opportunities that erode gender boundaries.

Book A History of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance

Download or read book A History of the Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance written by John Percy and published by Resistance Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resistance is the first volume of a projected three volume history of the Democratic Socialist party and the youth organisation Resistance, which today constitute the main current of the Australian far left. This volume covers the tumultuous period from 1965 to 1972.

Book The Australian New Left

Download or read book The Australian New Left written by Richard Gordon and published by Melbourne : W. Heinemann Australia. This book was released on 1970 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transnational Protest  Australia and the 1960s

Download or read book Transnational Protest Australia and the 1960s written by Jon Piccini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is rarely considered to have been a part of the great political changes that swept the world in the 1960s: the struggles of the American civil rights movement, student revolts in Europe, guerrilla struggles across the Third World and demands for women’s and gay liberation. This book tells the story of how Australian activists from a diversity of movements read about, borrowed from, physically encountered and critiqued overseas manifestations of these rebellions, as well as locating the impact of radical visitors to the nation. It situates Australian protest and reform movements within a properly global – and particularly Asian – context, where Australian protestors sought answers, utopias and allies. Dramatically broadens our understanding of Australian protest movements, this book presents them not only as manifestations of local issues and causes but as fundamentally tied to ideas, developments and personalities overseas, particularly to socialist states and struggles in near neighbours like Vietnam, Malaysia and China.'Jon Piccini is Research and Teaching Fellow at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His research interests include the history of human rights and social histories of international student migration.'

Book Dissent Events

Download or read book Dissent Events written by Sean Scalmer and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dissent Events: Protest, the Media and the Political Gimmick in Australia offers a contemporary history of collective action in Australia over the last four decades, from the halting experiments of the early sixties, to more recent actions involving Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, the quest for reconciliation, and the anti-corporate campaigners of the S11 Alliance. It tells the story of these performances, develops a set of concepts to analyse their changing form and illuminates the larger story of social and political change in recent Australian life."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Memory and History in Twentieth century Australia

Download or read book Memory and History in Twentieth century Australia written by Kate Darian-Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship between memory, history and the competing narratives of identity, place and gender in Australian society. The study is a window on the Australian past, demonstrating the centrality of memory to the writing of history.

Book Vietnam

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  • Author : Jeffrey Grey
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
  • Release : 1992-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781863733199
  • Pages : 157 pages

Download or read book Vietnam written by Jeffrey Grey and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, covering government attitudes, the Sixties and the war, the anti-war movements, myths and memories of the war, and comparisons with American and New Zealand experiences. Includes index. The editors teach at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

Book The 1960s in Australia

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  • Author : Shirleene Robinson
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2012-01-17
  • ISBN : 1443836761
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book The 1960s in Australia written by Shirleene Robinson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s is one of the most heavily mythologised decades of the twentieth century. More than 50 years on, the era continues to capture the public’s imagination. The 1960s in Australia: People, Power and Politics recognises the complexity of social and cultural change by presenting a broad range of contributions that acknowledge an often overlooked fact – that not everyone experienced the 1960s in the same way. The diversity of the time is confirmed by contributions from a number of expert Australian historians who each provide an insight into Australia in the 1960s, offering an understanding of the social realities of this period as well as the ebbs and flows of transnational influence. This collection includes a featured contribution by prominent Australian historian, Raymond Evans, who provides a personal insight into the 1960s. Other contributors also place ‘the lived experience’ at the centre of their analysis by considering the growth of modern flats, the impact of cosmopolitanism, and sex and sexuality in the ‘Sixties’. The book also highlights the way power was deployed and deconstructed during this era by considering the psychiatric profession, the agenda of the counter-culture, and the role that women’s magazines played in reinforcing dominant gender paradigms. The complex politics of the era are also explored through the transnational impact of figures such as Anthony Crosland, the impact of the Vietnam War, and the multiplicity of motivations behind the anti-war protest and the Aboriginal rights movement of the era. The 1960s in Australia: Power, People and Politics is a fresh focus on a significant time in Australia’s history. It brings together a collection of innovative and engaging explorations into the Australian ‘Sixties’, which underline the complexity of the time.

Book Protests and Visions

Download or read book Protests and Visions written by James Hinton and published by Hutchinson. This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: