Download or read book The Search for Security in the Pacific 1901 1914 written by Neville Kingsley Meaney and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1976, The Search for Security in the Pacific 1901-1914 is the first volume in a pioneering two-volume history of Australia's relations with the world, from the founding of the Commonwealth to the Great War and its immediate aftermath. This book is based on wide-ranging research in collections of personal and official papers in Australia, Britain, the United States and Canada and offers original insights into Australia's political culture. In taking the story up to the outbreak of the European conflict it shows the great impact that the looming presence of East Asia had on Australia's perception of the world and on the evolution of a distinctive defence and foreign policy. It tells the story of how in an age of race nationalism the fear of Asia led first to the making of the Commonwealth and the White Australia policy and then after Japan's defeat of Russia in 1905 to the potential prospect of a military invasion from the north. This sense of an 'Australian Crisis' pervaded the whole society and found expression in poetry, plays, novels, cartoons, at least one film, newspaper editorials as well as political speeches. To meet this threat Australian leaders, against all the advice from the British authorities, introduced compulsory military training and established a navy and a fledgling air force. The outbreak of the European war found the Australians resentful about the British betrayal and anxious to know what the Empire's involvement in that conflict might mean for the Pacific. This divergence of security concerns created tension between Australia's community of culture and its community of interest, between its British identity and its geopolitical circumstances.
Download or read book From Far East to Asia Pacific written by Brian P. Farrell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1900 to 1954 marked the transformation from an exotic, colonized "Far East" to a more autonomous, prominent "Asia Pacific". This anthology examines the grand strategies of great powers as they vied for influence and ultimately hegemony in the region. At the turn of the twentieth century, the main contestants included the venerable British Empire and the aspiring Japan and United States. The unwieldy leviathan of China, the European imperial holdings in Southeast Asia, and the expanses of the western Pacific emerged as battlegrounds in literal and geopolitical terms. Other less powerful nations, such as India, Burma, Australia, and French Indochina, also exercised agency in crafting grand strategies to further their interests and in their interactions with those great powers. Among the many factors affecting all nations invested in the Asia Pacific were such traditional elements as economics, military power, and diplomacy, as well as fluid traits like ideology, culture, and personality. The era saw the decline of British and European influence in the Asia Pacific, the rise and fall of Japanese imperialism, the emergence of American primacy, the ongoing struggle for independence in Southeast Asia, and China’s resurrection as a contender for hegemony. Great powers shifted and so too did their grand strategies.
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Historical Security written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 3894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 12-volume set contains titles originally published between 1957 and 1992. International in scope, the set looks at security and military history covering several battles, particularly the first and second world wars. Highlighting the difference between theory and practice, it also explores the people involved in the policy making and strategy of war, and the leaders tasked with carrying those decisions out.
Download or read book Australia and World Crisis 1914 1923 written by Neville Meaney and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia and World Crisis, 1914–1923 is the second volume in a pioneering two-volume history of Australian defence and foreign policy. It is based on wide-ranging research in collections of personal and official papers in Australia, Britain, the United States and Canada. Linking up with the first volume, The Search for Security in the Pacific, it offers a new and path-breaking understanding of Australia's relations with the world from the outbreak of the First World War to the making of peace in Europe and the Pacific. This study explores a number of fundamental issues that shaped Australia's response to the world in this era, such as race and culture, geopolitics and security, domestic divisions and ideas of loyalty, and the philosophies and personalities of the chief policy makers. From the outset of this global conflict Australia was involved in a 'hot war' in Europe against Germany and its allies, and in a 'cold war' in the Pacific against Japan. The British Australians, for reasons of sentiment and interest, supported the Mother Country, but even as they did so they were deeply concerned about Japan's ambitions. As a result Japan figured prominently in Australia's approach to the war and the peace. Indeed for the Australians the 'cold war' did not come to an end until the Washington Conference of 1921–2, when Japan with the other Pacific powers agreed to limit naval building and to respect existing territories in China and the Pacific. In tracing out this story, the book throws light on many particular aspects of the 'hot' and 'cold' wars. They include the origins of Asian studies in Australia, intelligence gathering, the secret service and loyalty leagues, the fear of Japan in the conscription controversy, Irish Catholics and the Anglo-Irish War. The labour movement and the Bolshevik revolution, the ideological clash of the American President and the Australian Prime Minister over peacemaking, the visit of the Prince of Wales, 'Britishness' and the failure of the idea of Greater Britain all influenced the development of Australia's defence and foreign policy. At the end of the book there is an attempt to provide an assessment of Australia's leadership through these testing times and to point out the significance of this experience for a later generation of Australia policy makers.
Download or read book A Great and Powerful Friend written by Norman Harper and published by St. Lucia [Qld.] ; New York : University of Queensland Press ; Lawrence, Mass., USA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy 1901 23 written by Neville Kingsley Meaney and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923 is the second volume in a pioneering two-volume history of Australian defence and foreign policy. It explores a number of fundamental issues which shaped Australia's response to the world in this era, such as race and culture, geopolitics and security, domestic divisions and ideas of loyalty and finally the philosophies and personalities of the chief policy makers.
Download or read book A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy 1901 23 The search for security in the Pacific 1901 14 written by N. K. Meaney and published by Sydney : Sydney University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Imperialism in the Pacific written by Roger C. Thompson and published by Carlton, Australia : Melbourne University Press ; Forest Grove, Or. : [available from] International Scholarly Book Services. This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Maritime Defence of Canada written by Roger Flynn Sarty and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of papers on maritime defence up to 1950, beginning with an overview of Canadian maritime defence 1892-1914. Subsequent papers cover the defence of British Columbia, the naval aspects of Canadian sovereignty, Pacific coast defence, rearmament and mobilization in the late 1930s, coastal fortifications of World War II, anti-submarine warfare in the north-west Atlantic 1943-45, and submarine warfare 1909-1950.
Download or read book The German Empire and Britain s Pacific Dominions 1871 1919 written by John Anthony Moses and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 25 essays written primarily by Australian and New Zealand historians, organized into three sections: the perceptions and policies of the great powers during the period from 1870 to 1919; the view of the world as perceived both by the Pacific Dominions and by the rising imperial power of Japan; and the complex character of the political culture of Imperial Germany and Australia's historiography on Dominion participation in WWI. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book J A Lyons the Tame Tasmanian written by David Samuel. Bird and published by Australian Scholary Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the neglected career of Australian prime minister, Joseph Lyons. It is a dramatic story set in the turbulent 1930s and involves many well-known figures, as well as many more obscure. It accounts a quest for peace which involved efforts in Washington, London, Tokyo and Rome.
Download or read book Japan to the Rescue written by Humphrey McQueen and published by Port Melbourne, Vic. : W. Heinemann Australia. This book was released on 1991 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Australia's relationship with Japan and the need to reconsider our historical attitudes with both Japan and the USA in the context of regional stability and defence. Includes a detailed bibliography. The author is a freelance historian widely known for his writings and radio commentaries.
Download or read book A Nation of Our Own written by Robert Birrell and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Longman 'Australian Studies' series which deal with contemporary Australian issues. A study of such contentious sociological issues as the republic and citizenship. The author links these debates to the history of the formation of Australia's major institutions and identity. He argues that by examining the history of the federation era, it can be seen that a populist approach, built around ideas of creating a new and better national community, can be successful. Includes an index.
Download or read book Implicated written by Philip Bell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the 'decline' of American power and the 'end' of the cold war, the implications of American power and example continue to colour Australia's political and social identity.
Download or read book The Domestic Sources of New Zealand Security Policy in Comparative Perspective written by David Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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