British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century
This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and the Empire in the late nineteenth century, and looks at the beginnings of Australian nationalism. It is the first detailed study of the formative period 1880-1900. As the debate about an Australian Republic becomes more heated, this book is a timely reexamination of the colonial character of Australia's federation and Australia's incorporation into an imperial framework.
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British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century
This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and the Empire in the late nineteenth century, and looks at the beginnings of Australian nationalism. It is the first detailed study of the formative period 1880-1900. As the debate about an Australian Republic becomes more heated, this book is a timely reexamination of the colonial character of Australia's federation and Australia's incorporation into an imperial framework.
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British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century

British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century

by Luke Trainor
British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century

British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century

by Luke Trainor

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This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and the Empire in the late nineteenth century, and looks at the beginnings of Australian nationalism. It is the first detailed study of the formative period 1880-1900. As the debate about an Australian Republic becomes more heated, this book is a timely reexamination of the colonial character of Australia's federation and Australia's incorporation into an imperial framework.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521436045
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1992
Series: Studies in Australian History
Pages: 234
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. The Years 1880–6: 1. The search for a safe federation; 2. The imperial defence ideology; 3. The Anglo-Australian system in the Pacific; 4. The empire of commerce; 5. The empire of commerce; Part II. The Years 1887–94: 6. Whose nation?; 7. Race: idea and practice; 8. Federalism and defence; 9. Imperial and colonial trade; 10. British loans: Australian depression; 11. London and Australia - the great strikes; Part III. The Years 1895–1900: 12. Sinews of war; 13. Federating in a white world; Part IV. Perspectives: 14. Historical writings - national and imperial; 15. Imperialism: towards a workable model; Notes; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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"Trainor's writing is succinct and knowledgeable....It is entirely to [his] credit that his volume scans so many dark areas so clearly and judiciously." American Historical Review

"...Trainor has provided us with a thoughtful and innovative study of the white colonial mentalite^D in the context of the gathering tensions of the late nineteenth-century world." International History Review

"Trainor has certainly succeeded in making a strong case for the importance of imperialism in Austalia's development in the 1880s and 1890s, a wide-ranging. partially home-grown imperialism which penetrated deep into the fabric of Australian life." Canadian Journal of History

"The comprehensiveness of the study and the soundness of its judgments make it a valuable resource." Thomas E. Tausky, Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada

"...sound and very informative." Times Literary Supplement

"Trainor is to be applauded for working up perspectives that were not once part of his outlook. His assertions also warrant serious consideration." Robert Kubicek, Albion

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