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  • 1
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    Honiara : village-city of Solomon Islands (2022)
    Canberra, ACT : Australian National University Press
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    ISBN: 9781760465070
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 524 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: Pacific series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Honiara
    Keywords: History ; Honiara (Solomon Islands) History ; Solomon Islands - Honiara
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. Nahona`ara before 1942 -- 2. Taem blong faet: Camp Guadal -- 3. The new capital -- 4. The other Honiara -- 5. Municipal authority and housing -- 6. Building infrastructure -- 7. Building society and the nation -- 8. Stepping-stones to national consciousness -- 9. Since independence -- 10. The village-city -- Bibliography.
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    Honouring a nation : a history of Australia's honours system (2022)
    Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
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    ISBN: 9781760465018 , 1760465011
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 282 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Honouring a nation : a history of Australia's honours system
    DDC: 929.799994
    Keywords: Awards History ; Medals History ; Decorations of honor History ; Titles of honor and nobility History ; Awards ; Decorations of honor ; Medals ; Titles of honor and nobility ; History ; Australia
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Spirit of democracy, 1788-1900 -- 2. Nation and state, 1901-1914 -- 3. New empire order, 1914-1918 -- 4. Repugnant to the people? 1919-1939 -- 5. In war and peace, 1939-1967 -- 6. It's time, 1967-1975 -- 7. A system divided, 1975-1990 -- 8. Barbeque stopper, 1990-2015.
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    Sound citizens : Australian women broadcasters claim their voice, 1923-1956 (2021)
    Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
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    ISBN: 9781760464318 , 1760464317
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 185 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sound Citizens : Australian women broadcasters claim their voice, 1923-1956
    DDC: 791.440994
    Keywords: Women broadcasters History ; Women in radio broadcasting History ; Radio broadcasters History ; Mass media Political aspects ; History ; Political culture History ; Sex role History ; Women in the mass media industry History ; Mass media ; Political aspects ; Political culture ; Radio broadcasters ; Sex role ; Women broadcasters ; Women in radio broadcasting ; Women in the mass media industry ; History ; Australia
    Abstract: Introduction -- Establishing the platform: the Interwar years -- World citizens: women's broadcasting and internationalism -- Voicing the war effort: women's broadcasts during World War II -- 'An epoch making event': radio and the new female Parliamentarians -- Fighting soap: the postwar years -- We span the distance': women's radio and regional communities -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: In 1954 Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives, argued that radio had 'created a bigger revolution in the life of a woman than anything that has happened any time' as it brought the public sphere into the home and women into the public sphere. Taking this claim as its starting point, Sound Citizens examines how a cohort of professional women broadcasters, activists and politicians used radio to contribute to the public sphere and improve women's status in Australia from the introduction of radio in 1923 until the introduction of television in 1956. This book reveals a much broader and more complex history of women's contributions to Australian broadcasting than has been previously acknowledged
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    Power and dysfunction : the New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940 (2021)
    Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
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    ISBN: 9781760464738 , 1760464732
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 371 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Aboriginal History Monographs
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Power and dysfunction : the New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940
    DDC: 323.1199159
    Keywords: New South Wales History ; Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of History ; Aboriginal Australians Government policy ; History ; Government policy - State and territory - New South Wales ; Child welfare - Child / parent separation ; Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations ; Aboriginal Australians ; Government policy ; Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of ; History ; New South Wales
    Abstract: In 1883 the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines was tasked with assisting and supporting an Aboriginal population that had been devastated by a brutal dispossession. It began its tenure with little government direction - its initial approach was cautious and reactionary. However, by the turn of the century this Board, driven by some forceful individuals, was squarely focused on a legislative agenda that sought policies to control, segregate and expel Aboriginal people. Over time it acquired extraordinary powers to control Aboriginal movement, remove children from their communities and send them into domestic service, collect wages and hold them in trust, withhold rations, expel individuals from stations and reserves, authorise medical inspections, and prevent any Aboriginal person from leaving the state. Power and Dysfunction explores this Board and uncovers who were the major drivers of these policies, who were its most influential people, and how this body came to wield so much power. Paradoxically, despite its considerable influence, through its bravado, structural dysfunction, flawed policies and general indifference, it failed to manage core aspects of Aboriginal policy. In the 1930s, when the Board was finally challenged by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups seeking its abolition, it had become moribund, paranoid and secretive as it railed against all detractors. When it was finally disbanded in 1940, its 57-year legacy had touched every Aboriginal community in New South Wales with lasting consequences that still resonate today
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    Goodna girls : a history of children in a Queensland mental asylum (2020)
    Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
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    ISBN: 9781760463915 , 1760463914
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 157 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Aboriginal history monographs
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Goodna girls : a history of children in a Queensland mental asylum
    DDC: 362.709943
    Keywords: Wolston Park Hospital (Qld.) History ; Children Institutional care ; Psychiatry History ; Child welfare History ; Child welfare ; Children ; Institutional care ; Psychiatry ; History ; Australia ; Queensland ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Part 1. Historical context. 1. Marginalised voices: the quest for a recognised history -- Part 2. The survivors. 2. The Panther: Jean/Erin ; 3. One of the most persistent bitches: Judy ; 4. Wasted days and wasted nights: Rose ; 5. Don't shoot the wounded: Tammy -- Part 3. The witnesses. 6. Brewing truth: the Priest ; 7. The penny dropped: the Psychiatrist ; 8. I had no way of processing what was going on: the Nurse -- Part 4. Next steps. 9. Conclusion: What followed and what may yet proceed.
    Abstract: Goodna Girls tells the story of children incarcerated in Wolston Park Hospital, an adult psychiatric facility in Queensland, Australia. It contains the personal testimonies of women who relate--in their own no-holds-barred style and often with irreverent humour--how they, as children, ended up in Wolston Park and how this affected their adult lives. The accounts of hospital staff who witnessed the effects of this heinous policy and spoke out are also included. The book examines the consequences of the Queensland Government's manipulation of a medical model to respond to 'juvenile delinquents', many of whom were simply vulnerable children absconding from abusive conditions. As Australia faces the repercussions of the institutionalisation of its children in the twentieth century, brought about through a series of government inquiries, Goodna Girls makes a vital contribution to the public history of the Stolen Generations, Former Child Migrants and Forgotten Australians. Goodna Girls presents the research that informed a successful, collective campaign to lobby the Queensland Government to make long overdue and much-needed reparations to a group of courageous survivors. It holds contemporary resonance for scholars, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of public history, welfare, child protection, education, nursing, sociology, medicine and criminology
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    Forts and fortification in Wallacea Archaeological and ethnohistoric investigations (2020)
    Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
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    ISBN: 9781760463892 , 1760463892
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 290 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Terra Australis 53
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Forts and fortification in Wallacea Archaeological and ethnohistoric investigations
    DDC: 959.801
    Keywords: Fortification History ; Fortification History ; Fortification History ; Fortification History ; Fortification Social aspects ; History ; Fortification Social aspects ; History ; Fortification Social aspects ; History ; Fortification Social aspects ; History ; Excavations (Archaeology) ; Excavations (Archaeology) ; Excavations (Archaeology) ; Antiquities ; Excavations (Archaeology) ; Fortification ; History ; Indo-Australian Region Antiquities ; History ; Timor-Leste Antiquities ; History ; Indonesia Antiquities ; History ; Indo-Australian Region ; Indonesia ; Indonesia ; Sulawesi ; Timor-Leste ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Forts and fortifications in Wallacea / Sue O'Connor, Andrew McWilliam and Sally Brockwell -- Archaeology of forts. 2. The fortified settlement of Macapainara, Lautem District, Timor-Leste / Sue O'Connor, David Bulbeck, Noel Amano Jr, Philip J. Piper, Sally Brockwell, Andrew McWilliam, Jack N. Fenner, Jack O'Connor-Veth, Rose Whitau, Tim Maloney, Michelle C. Langley, Mirani Litster, James Lankton, Bernard Gratuze, William R. Dickinson, Anthony Barham and Richard C. Willan ; 3. The Ira Ara site: A fortified settlement and burial complex in Timor-Leste / Peter V. Lape, John Krigbaum, Jana Futch, Amy Jordan and Emily Peterson ; 4. Excavations at the site of Vasino, Lautem District, Timor-Leste / Sally Brockwell, Sue O'Connor, Jack N. Fenner, Andrew McWilliam, Noel Amano Jr, Philip J. Piper, David Bulbeck, Mirani Litster, Rose Whitau, Jack O'Connor-Veth, Tim Maloney, Judith Cameron, Richard C. Willan and William R. Dickinson ; 5. The site of Leki Wakik, Manatuto District, Timor-Leste / Jack N. Fenner, Mirani Litster, Tim Maloney, Tse Siang Lim, Stuart Hawkins, Prue Gaffey, Sally Brockwell, Andrew McWilliam, Sandra Pannell, Richard C. Willan and Sue O'Connor -- Social history of forts. 6. Social drivers of fortified settlements in Timor-Leste / Andrew McWilliam ; 7. The indigenous fortifications of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and their sociopolitical foundations / David Bulbeck and Ian Caldwell ; 8. Forts on Buton Island: Centres of settlement, government and security in Southeast Sulawesi / Hasanuddin 9. Forts of the Wakatobi Islands in Southeast Sulawesi / Nani Somba ; 10. Historical and linguistic perspectives on fortified settlements in Southeastern Wallacea: Far eastern Timor in the context of southern Maluku / Antoinette Schapper -- Conclusion and future directions. 11. Surveys of fortified sites in Southern Wallacea / Sue O'Connor, Shimona Kealy, Andrew McWilliam, Sally Brockwell, Lucas Wattimena, Marlon Ririmasse, Mahirta, Alifah, Sandra Pannell, Stuart Hawkins, Mohammad Husni and Daud Tanudirjo ; 12. Conclusion / Andrew McWilliam, Sue O'Connor and Sally Brockwell.
    Abstract: Archaeology of forts -- Social history of forts -- Conclusion and future directions.
    Abstract: This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and scholarly set of archaeological and ethnohistoric studies that investigate the origin of forts in Wallacea. Socio-political instability from climate events, the materialisation of indigenous belief systems, and the substantial impact of imperial expansion and European colonialism are examined and comprise a significant addition to our knowledge of conflict and warfare in an under-studied part of the Indo-Pacific. The archaeological record for past conflict is frequently ambiguous and the contribution of warfare to social development is mired in debate and paradox. Authors demonstrate that forts and other defensive constructions are costly and complicated structures that, while designed and built to protect a community from a threat of imminent violence, had (and have) complicated life histories as a result of their architectural permanence, strategic locations and traditional cultural and political significance. Understanding why conflict outbreaks - like human colonisation - often appear in the past as a punctuated event can best be approached through long-term records of conflict and violence involving archaeology and allied historical disciplines, as has been successfully done here. The volume is essential reading for archaeologists, cultural heritage managers and those with an interest in conflict studies
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    Consolidated gold fields in Australia : the rise and decline of a British mining house, 1926-1998 (2020)
    Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781760463502 , 1760463507
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 464 pages : illustrations)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Porter, Robert, 1932- Consolidated gold fields in Australia :the rise and decline of a British mining house, 1926-1998
    Keywords: Gold mines and mining History ; Gold mines and mining ; HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand ; History ; Australia Gold discoveries ; Australia ; Electronic books
    Abstract: pt. 1. Context--consolidated gold fields. 1. The consolidated gold fields of South Africa ; 2. New horizons for a British mining house -- pt. 2. Early investments in Australia. 3. Western Australian gold ; 4. Broader associations ; 5. Lake George and New Guinea -- pt. 3. A new force in Australian mining 1960-1966. 6. A new approach to Australia ; 7. New men and a new model ; 8. A range of investments -- pt. 4. Expansion, consolidation and restructuring 1966-1981. 9. Move to an Australian shareholding ; 10. Expansion and consolidation 1966-1976 ; 11. Acquisition and diversification ; 12. Portfolio challenges ; 13. Portfolio review 1975-1981 -- pt. 5. A majority Australian owned mining company 1981-1989. 14. Formation of a diversified mining company ; 15. The initial years ; 16. New interests and diversification ; 17. The challenges of the parent -- pt. 6. The final decade 1990-1998. 18. Hanson on the Register ; 19. Tumultuous years 1990-1994 ; 20. Final years ; 21. The end of an era.
    Abstract: Consolidated Gold Fields was a major British mining house founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1892. Diversifying from its South African gold interests, the company invested widely during the following century. This included investments in the Western Australian gold sector from the 1920s and exploration and mining activities elsewhere in Australia and the Territory of New Guinea. In the 1960s, Consolidated Gold Fields Australia (CGFA) was formed. CGFA had ambitious plans and the financial backing from London to establish itself as one of the main diversified mining companies in Australia. Investments were held in the historic Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, in Renison, and it was one of the first groups to develop iron ore deposits in the Pilbara of Western Australia. It also acquired a major interest in mineral sands. While the London-based Consolidated Gold Fields ceased to exist in 1989, taken over and dismembered by renowned corporate raider Hanson Plc, its Australian subsidiary, renamed Renison Goldfields Consolidated (RGC), continued for another nine years as a diversified mining group before it suffered its own corporate demise, facilitated by Hanson. CGFA and RGC were important participants in Australia's post-World War II mining sector. This book is a history of a once great British mining-finance house and its investments in Australia. Consolidated Gold Fields had a rich and broad history in Australia; its ultimate fate did not demonstrate its potential as an Australian mining company
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    Niche wars : Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001-2014 (2020)
    Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
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    ISBN: 9781760464035 , 1760464031
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 377 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Niche Wars : Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001-2014
    DDC: 356.10994
    Keywords: Australia History ; Afghan War, 2001- Participation, Australian ; Iraq War, 2003-2011 Participation, Australian ; Peacekeeping forces, Australian History ; Peace-building, Australian History ; Diplomatic relations ; Military participation ; Australian ; Military relations ; Peace-building, Australian ; Peacekeeping forces, Australian ; History ; Military history ; Australia Foreign relations 20th century ; Australia Foreign relations 21st century ; Australia Military relations 20th century ; Australia Military relations 21st century ; United States Military relations 20th century ; United States Military relations 21st century ; Australia History, Military 20th century ; Australia History, Military 21st century ; Australia ; Iraq ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction / John Blaxland -- Part 1: Policy and strategy. 1. A minister's perspective / Robert Hill ; 2. A departmental Secretary's perspective / Ric Smith ; 3. A Chief of Defence Force's perspective / Chris Barrie -- Part 2: On operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. 4. Australia's intervention in Afghanistan, 2001-02 / Dan McDaniel ; 5. Air Operations Control and Reporting Centre / Chris Westwood ; 6. Conventional stability operations at the battle group level in Iraq / Anthony Rawlins ; 7. Maritime operations / Peter Jones ; 8. Embeds / Jim Molan -- Part 3: Joint forces, enablers and partners. 9. Command and control / Michael Crane ; 10. Intelligence in Afghanistan / Mick Lehmann ; 11. Civil and humanitarian assistance / Alan Ryan ; 12. The military and the media / Karen Middleton ; 13. The Australian Federal Police in Afghanistan, 2007-14 / Col Speedie and Steve Mullins ; 14. AusAID stabilisation / David Savage ; 15. The gender dimension / Elizabeth Boulton -- Part 4: Lessons and legacies. 16. Lessons and legacies of the war in Afghanistan / William Maley ; 17. American and British experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2001-04 / Dan Marston ; 18. Lessons and legacies of the use of force / Peter Leahy ; 19. The Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East Timor / Craig Stockings ; 20. Final reflections / John Blaxland.
    Abstract: Australia invoked the ANZUS Alliance following the Al Qaeda attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001. But unlike the calls to arms at the onset of the world wars, Australia decided to make only carefully calibrated force contributions in support of the US-led coalition campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why is this so? Niche Wars examines Australia's experience on military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to 2014. These operations saw over 40 Australian soldiers killed and hundreds wounded. But the toll since has been greater. For Afghanistan and Iraq the costs are hard to measure. Why were these forces deployed? What role did Australia play in shaping the strategy and determining the outcome? How effective were they? Why is so little known about Australia's involvement in these campaigns? What lessons can be learned from this experience? Niche Wars commences with a scene-setting overview of Australia's military involvement in the Middle East over more than a century. It then draws on unique insights from many angles, across a spectrum of men and women, ranging from key Australian decision makers, practitioners and observers. The book includes a wide range of perspectives in chapters written by federal government ministers, departmental secretaries, service commanders, task force commanders, sailors, soldiers, airmen and women, international aid workers, diplomats, police, journalists, coalition observers and academics. Niche Wars makes for compelling reading but also stands as a reference work on how and why Australia became entangled in these conflicts that had devastating consequences. If lessons can be learned from history about how Australia uses its military forces, this book is where to find them. -- From publisher's website
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    Tulagi : Pacific outpost of British empire (2019)
    Acton, ACT : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 1760463086 , 9781760463083 , 9781760463090
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 448 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Pacific series
    DDC: 995.93
    Keywords: World War, 1939-1945 ; Pacific Ocean ; Islands of the Pacific ; Solomon Islands ; British colonies ; History ; World War (1939-1945) ; Colonial influence ; Great Britain Colonies ; Islands of the Pacific Colonial influence ; Solomon Islands History 20th century
    Abstract: Protecting Solomon Islanders -- A 'very arduous task': Charles, Arthur and Frank -- Administration: Pop, Spearline and the poodle -- Chinatown, the club, hotels and the 'black hole' -- Mildewed elegance, houses and servants -- '... a pity you didn't wing him': Gender, sexuality and race -- Silk, white helmets and Malacca canes -- Evacuation, invasion and destruction.
    Abstract: Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 1942. The British withdrawal from the island during the Pacific War, its capture by the Japanese and the American reconquest left the island's facilities damaged beyond repair. After the war, Britain moved the capital to the American military base on Guadalcanal, which became Honiara. The Tulagi settlement was an enclave of several small islands, the permanent population of which was never more than 600: 300 foreigners--one-third of European origin and most of the remainder Chinese--and an equivalent number of Solomon Islanders. Thousands of Solomon Islander males also passed through on their way to work on plantations and as boat crews, hospital patients and prisoners. The history of the Tulagi enclave provides an understanding of the origins of modern Solomon Islands. Tulagi was also a significant outpost of the British Empire in the Pacific, which enables a close analysis of race, sex and class and the process of British colonisation and government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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    Following the water : environmental history and the hydrological cycle in colonial Gippsland, Australia, 1838-1900 (2019)
    Acton, ACT : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781760462857 , 1760462853
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 306 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Carman-Brown, Kylie Following the Water : Environmental History and the Hydrological Cycle in Colonial Gippsland, Australia, 1838 -1900
    DDC: 551.480994
    Keywords: Hydrology ; Hydrology ; Victoria ; Gippsland Lakes Region ; History ; Gippsland Lakes Region (Vic.) History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Making the circle round: Perceptions of hydrology through time -- 3. The earth's thoughtful lords? Nineteenth-century views of water and nature -- 4. 'Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather': The role of precipitation in the catchment -- 5. 'Fair streams were palsied in their onward course': The desirability of flowing waters -- 6. 'A useless weight of water': Responding to stagnancy, mud and morasses -- 7. Between 'the water famine and the fire demon': Drying up the catchment -- 8. Mirror, mirror? The reflective catchment.
    Abstract: Water reflects culture. This book is a detailed analysis of hydrological change in Australia's largest inland waterway in Australia, the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria, in the first 70 years of white settlement. Following air, water is our primal need. Unlike many histories, this book looks at the entire hydrological cycle in one place, rather than focusing on one bit. Deftly weaving threads from history, hydrology and psychology into one, Following the Water explores not just what settlers did to the waterscape, but probes their motivation for doing so. By combining unlikely elements together such as swamp drainage, water proofing techniques and temperance lobbying, the book reveals a web of perceptions about how water 'should be'. With this laid clear, we can ask how different we are from our colonial forebears
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    Solomon Islanders in World War II : an indigenous perspective (2017)
    Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press
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    ISBN: 1760461660 , 1760461652 , 9781760461652 , 9781760461669
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 135 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kwai, Anna Annie Solomon Islanders in World War II : An Indigenous Perspective
    DDC: 940.54/26
    Keywords: World War, 1939-1945 ; Indigenous peoples ; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns ; Electronic books ; History: specific events and topics ; Humanities ; Military history ; Regional and national history ; Second World War ; Indigenous peoples ; Military campaigns ; Australasian and Pacific history ; Solomon Islands ; World War (1939-1945) ; Colonialism and imperialism ; History
    Abstract: The Solomon Islands Campaign of World War II has been the subject of many published historical accounts. Most of these accounts present an ђ́بoutsiderђ́ة perspective with limited reference to the contribution of indigenous Solomon Islanders as coastwatchers, scouts, carriers and labourers under the Royal Australian Navy and other Allied military units. Where islanders are mentioned, they are represented as ђ́بloyalђ́ة helpers. The nature of local contributions in the war and their impact on islander perceptions are more complex than has been represented in these outsiderѕђ́ة perspectives. Islander encounters with white American troops enabled self-awareness of racial relationships and inequality under the colonial administration, which sparked struggles towards recognition and political autonomy that emerged in parts of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in the postwar period. Exploitation of postwar military infrastructure by the colonial administration laid the foundation for later sociopolitical upheaval experienced by the country. In the aftermath of the 1998 crisis, the supposed unity and pride that prevailed among islanders during the war has been seen as an avenue whereby different ethnic identities can be unified. This national unification process entailed the construction of the ђ́بPride of our Nationђ́ة monument that aims to restore the pride and identity of Solomon Islanders
    Abstract: The Solomon Islands Campaign of World War II has been the subject of many published historical accounts. Most of these accounts present an 'outsider' perspective with limited reference to the contribution of indigenous Solomon Islanders as coastwatchers, scouts, carriers and labourers under the Royal Australian Navy and other Allied military units. Where islanders are mentioned, they are represented as 'loyal' helpers. The nature of local contributions in the war and their impact on islander perceptions are more complex than has been represented in these outsiders' perspectives. Islander encounters with white American troops enabled self-awareness of racial relationships and inequality under the colonial administration, which sparked struggles towards recognition and political autonomy that emerged in parts of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate in the postwar period. Exploitation of postwar military infrastructure by the colonial administration laid the foundation for later sociopolitical upheaval experienced by the country. In the aftermath of the 1998 crisis, the supposed unity and pride that prevailed among islanders during the war has been seen as an avenue whereby different ethnic identities can be unified. This national unification process entailed the construction of the 'Pride of our Nation' monument that aims to restore the pride and identity of Solomon Islanders
    Abstract: Introduction -- Islanders at War -- Why Support the Allies-- Impacts of the War -- Monument-building and Nationђ́ѵbuilding -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Prime Minister Derek Sikuађ́ةs letter of endorsement of the Solomon Scouts and Coastwatchers Trust -- Appendix 2: Letter of recognition from President Barack Obama.
    Abstract: Introduction -- Islanders at War -- Why Support the Allies? -- Impacts of the War -- Monument-building and Nation-building -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Prime Minister Derek Sikua's letter of endorsement of the Solomon Scouts and Coastwatchers Trust -- Appendix 2: Letter of recognition from President Barack Obama.
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