Australia and the Great War

Identity, Memory and Mythology

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Published 01-01-2016
ISBN 9780522867879
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The events of the Great War intensified the relationship between the British Empire and Australia; the legacy can still be felt today.

The events of the Great War intensified the relationship between the British Empire and Australia—the legacy can still be felt today.

Australia and the Great War explores both the immediate and longterm consequences of the war on this complex relationship, looking in particular at identity, history, gender, propaganda, economics and nationalism.

This multidisciplinary collection of essays unveils the creation and subsequent [mis]use of histories and mythologies while considering the necessity and nature of both remembering, and forgetting, war.

Michael JK Walsh is Associate Professor of Art History and Associate Chair (Research) in the School of Art, Design and Media, at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests focus on the relationship between Modernism and the Great War, and this has resulted in several books, including This Cult of Violence (Yale University Press,…

Andrekos Varnava is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Military History at Flinders University. He is the author of British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915: The Inconsequential Possession and the editor/co-editor of various volumes, including, most recently, Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias. His next book is Serving the Empire in the Great…