William Morris Hughes: The Little Digger, 1914-1952
Author | : L. F. Fitzhardinge |
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Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : L. F. Fitzhardinge |
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Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Laurence Frederic Fithardinge |
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Total Pages | : 703 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Laurence Frederic Fitzhardinge |
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Total Pages | : 702 |
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ISBN | : 9789130001347 |
Author | : Laurence Frederic Fitzhardinge |
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Total Pages | : 703 |
Release | : 1979 |
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ISBN | : 9780207132452 |
A political history of William Morris Hughes, of Welsh origins who migrated to Australia in 1884.
Author | : George H. Nash |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780393025507 |
his family life, business affairs, and the other aspects of his life with the larger historical context. --Book Jacket.
Author | : Carl Bridge |
Publisher | : Haus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-05-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1907822208 |
The First World War marked the emergence of the Dominions on the world stage as independent nations, none more so than Australia. The country's sacrifice at Gallipoli in 1915, and the splendid combat record of Australian troops on the Western Front not only created a national awakening at home, but also put Great Britain in their debt, ensuring them greater influence at the Peace Conferences. Australia was represented at Versailles by the Prime Minister, the colourful Billy Hughes, whom Woodrow Wilson called 'a pestiferous varmint' after their repeated clashes over Australia's claims to the Pacific Islands its troops had taken from Germany during the War. Hughes was also the most vociferous (though by no means at all the only) opponent of the racial equality clause put forward by Japan. Indeed, it was fear of Japanese expansion that drove Australia's territorial demands in the Pacific.
Author | : Stuart Macintyre |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2020-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108728480 |
Macintyre revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present.
Author | : Anne Henderson |
Publisher | : NewSouth |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1742241794 |
In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little. Many followers of Australian political history, including Liberal party supporters, forget that Robert Menzies had many years in the political wilderness not knowing he would end up being Australia’s longest-serving prime minister. This book focuses on the period between 1941, when Menzies lost the prime-ministership, to 1949, when he regained it. In the interim he travelled around the world, spending an extended time in Britain during World War II, set up the Liberal Party and, the author argues, developed the leadership qualities that made him so successful. Anne Henderson refers to this time as his real political blooding.
Author | : Sheila Dwyer |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2014-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144385882X |
The six Australian colonies united on 1st January 1901 to become the Commonwealth of Australia. One of the reasons given for this federation was that the Commonwealth could provide a common defence. William Rooke Creswell argued that, as an island continent, Australia could not defend itself without a navy. He saw no point in having a 70,000 strong army if only one enemy battleship could destroy port cities and disrupt maritime trade and sea communications. Creswell was not alone in his campaign to establish a navy for Australia but he was the one constant advocate throughout the years from his first proposals on a navy for Australia in 1886 to when the first ships of the Australian Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour in October 1913.
Author | : Peter J. Yearwood |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2009-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199226733 |
"The book breaks new ground in examining how London tried to use the League in the crises of the early 1920s: Armenia, Persia, Vilna, Upper Silesia, Albania, and Corfu. It shows how in the negotiations leading to the Draft Treaty of Mutual Assistance, the Geneva Protocol, and the Locarno accords, Robert Cecil, Ramsay MacDonald, and Austen Chamberlain tried to solve the Franco-German security question through the League. This involves a re-examination of how these leaders tried to use the League as an issue in British domestic politics and why it emerged as central to British foreign policy."--pub. desc.