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This book offers a fresh examination of Australia's past and present. From the complex interactions of First Nations to modern international relations with significant partners and allies, it examines the forces which have influenced the place now called Australia both historically and today.
List of contents
1. When and Where is Australia?
Part I 2. Before Australia 3. Australia Before Responsible Government (1606 - 1856) 4. From British Australasia to Federation: No Linear Progression 5. Federation to the Second World War: Australian Identity and Anzac 6. British Dominion to Almost Republic: Australia Responds to the End of Empire 7. First Nations and Australia: Walking Together or Walking Alone?
Part II 8. The Unbreakable Alliance? Strategic Dependence and Australia's US Alliance 9. The Harder They Fall: Australia-China relations in Xi Jinping's New Era 10. Australia-Japan Relations: Close Ties and Shared Aspirations 11. Australia and Indonesia: The Persistence of Distance between Proximate Neighbours 12. Pacific Nation or Neighbour: Australia's Relationship with New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific 13. Australia's Southern Flank: Antarctica 14. Australia and the United Nations
About the author
Bridget Brooklyn is a Lecturer in Australian History at Western Sydney University. Recent publications are 'Mary Booth's Imperial Nationalism in the Aftermath of the Great War, in
After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath ed. M. J. Walsh & A. Varnava (Routledge, 2021), and 'Mnemosyne and Athena: Mary Booth, Anzac, and the Language of Remembrance in the First World War and After', in
Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific: Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse ed. A. Laugesen & C. Fisher (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Benjamin T. Jones is a Senior Lecturer in History at Central Queensland University, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Studies Institute. He also serves on the national executive committee of the Australian Historical Association. His most recent books are
History in a Post-Truth World (Routledge, 2020) and
This Time: Australia's Republican Past and Future (Redback, 2018).
Rebecca Strating is the Director of La Trobe Asia and an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her most recent book was
Defending the Maritime Rules-based Order: Regional Responses to the South China Sea Disputes (East West Center, 2020).
Summary
This book offers a fresh examination of Australia’s past and present. From the complex interactions of First Nations to modern international relations with significant partners and allies, it examines the forces which have influenced the place now called Australia both historically and today.
