Anzac Nations

Anzac Nations
Author: Rowan Light
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781990048203

In Anzac Nations: The legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia, 1965-2015, author Rowan Light examines the myth-making around Anzac and how commemoration has evolved. Anzac Nations examines three key aspects: the changing and contested meanings of Anzac from the 1960s to the 1980s; the expanded role of the state in commemoration since 1990; and responses to these shifts by Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Light brings together stories and evidence from both sides of the Tasman, offering a sweeping panorama of memory that includes writers and filmmakers, protestors and prime ministers, and public audiences who have come to see Anzac Day as their own.

Anzac Battlefield

Anzac Battlefield
Author: Antonio Sagona
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107111749

Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory explores the transformation of Gallipoli's landscape in antiquity, during the famed battles of the First World War and in the present day. Drawing on archival, archaeological and cartographic material, this book unearths the deep history of the Gallipoli peninsula, setting the Gallipoli campaign in a broader cultural and historical context. The book presents the results of an original archaeological survey, the research for which was supported by the Australian, New Zealand and Turkish Governments. The survey examines materials from both sides of the battlefield, and sheds new light on the environment in which Anzac and Turkish soldiers endured the conflict. Richly illustrated with both Ottoman and Anzac archival images and maps, as well as original maps and photographs of the landscape and archaeological findings, Anzac Battlefield is an important contribution to our understanding of Gallipoli and its landscape of war and memory.

The Rage of Nations

The Rage of Nations
Author: Edward R. Kantowicz
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802844552

In the first volume of a two-volume set, Canadian historian Kantowicz describes the events, people, and ideas driving the world's social and political course through two world wars, the Holocaust, revolutions, depressions, and other phenomena. Covers from the beginning of the century through World War II; Coming Apart, Coming Together will presumably take the story from there. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

What's Wrong with ANZAC?

What's Wrong with ANZAC?
Author: Marilyn Lake
Publisher: University of New South Wales
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781742231518

In recent years Anzac, an idea as much as an actual army corps, has become the dominant force within Australian history, overshadowing everything else. The commemoration of Anzac Day is bigger than ever, while Remembrance Day, VE Day, VP Day and other military anniversaries grow in significance each year.

Reconciling Cultural and Political Identities in a Globalized World

Reconciling Cultural and Political Identities in a Globalized World
Author: Michális Michael
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137493151

Though geographically far apart, Turkey and Australia are much closer than many would think. This collection provides a relevant, comparative and comprehensive study of two countries seeking to reconcile their history with their geography.

Shaping Nations

Shaping Nations
Author: Linda Cardinal
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2002-03-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0776616900

As questions concerning nationhood and national identity continue to preoccupy both Canada and Australia, Shaping Nations brings together the work of Australian and Canadian scholars around five core themes: constitutionalism, colonialism, republicanism, national identity, and governance.

The Unknown Nation

The Unknown Nation
Author: James Curran
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0522856454

The Unknown Nation is an illuminating history of Australia's putative 'search' for national identity. James Curran and Stuart Ward document how the receding ties of empire and Britishness posed an unprecedented dilemma as Australians lost their traditional ways of defining themselves as a people. With the sudden disappearance in the 1960s and 1970s of the familiar coordinates of the British world, Australians were cast into the realm of the unknown. The task of remodelling the national image touched every aspect of Australian life where identifiably British ideas, habits and symbols--from foreign relations to the national anthem--had grown obsolete. But how to celebrate Australia's past achievements and present aspirations became a source of public controversy as community leaders struggled to find the appropriate language and rhetoric to invoke a new era.

Nation Making

Nation Making
Author: Robert John Foster
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780472084272

Examines the process of nation making in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu

Remembering the Great War in the Middle East

Remembering the Great War in the Middle East
Author: Hans-Lukas Kieser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0755626486

This book addresses the conflicts, myths, and memories that grew out of the Great War in Ottoman Turkey, and their legacies in society and politics. It is the third volume in a series dedicated to the combined analysis of the Ottoman Great War and the Armenian Genocide. In Australia and New Zealand, and even more in the post-Ottoman Middle East, the memory of the First World War still has an immediacy that it has long lost in Europe. For the post-Ottoman regions, the first of the two World Wars, which ended Ottoman rule, was the formative experience. This volume analyses this complex configuration: why these entanglements became possible; how shared or even contradictory memories have been constructed over the past hundred years, and how differing historiographies have developed. Remembering the Great War in the Middle East reaches towards a new conceptualization of the “long last Ottoman decade” (1912-22), one that places this era and its actors more firmly at the center, instead of on the periphery, of a history of a Greater Europe, a history comprising – as contemporary maps did – Europe, Russia, and the Ottoman world.