This book contributes to the global turn in First World War studies by exploring Australians engagements with the conflict across varied boundaries and by situating Australian voices and perspectives within broader, more complex contexts. This diverse and multifaceted collection includes chapters on the composition and contribution of the Australian Imperial Force, the experiences of prisoners of war, nurses and Red Cross workers, the resonances of overseas events for Australians at home, and the cultural legacies of the war through remembrance and representation. The local-global framework provides a fresh lens through which to view Australian connections with the Great War, demonstrating that there is still much to be said about this cataclysmic event in modern history.
1. Introduction;
Kate Ariotti and James E. Bennett.- Part One. The AIF: Composition and Contribution.- 2. Foreign-Born Soldiers in the First AIF: Australias Multinational Fighting Force;
Karen Agutter.- 3. The Key to Victory: Australias Military Contribution on the Western Front in 1918;
Meleah Hampton.- Part II. Crossing Boundaries: Race, Culture and Gender.- 4. International Encounters in Captivity: The Cross-Cultural Experiences of Australian POWs in the Ottoman Empire;
Kate Ariotti.- 5. Australian Nurses and the 1918 Deolali Inquiry: Transcolonial Racial and Gendered Anxieties in a British Indian War Hospital;
Victoria K. Haskins.- 6. Opportunities to Engage: The Red Cross and Australian Womens Global War Work;
Melanie Oppenheimer.- Part III. The War at Home: Politics, People and Historiographical Perspectives.- 7. Labour and the Home Front: Changing Perspectives on the First World War in Australian Historiography; Frank Buongiorno.- 8. Australian Echoes of Imperial Tensions: Governmenló|
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