http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1436 2013-05-18T23:15:43Z 2013-05-18T23:15:43Z Yu, Teresa http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8903 2013-01-30T15:52:31Z 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Australia and the Palestine Question, 1947–1949: A New Interpretation Authors: Yu, Teresa Abstract: By 1947, the conflicting national aspirations of the Arab majority and Jewish minority within Palestine had developed into an intractable problem. The responsibility for the political future of Palestine fell upon the fledgling United Nations and thereby weighed upon the shoulders of all its constituent states. This was a time, however, when the nations of the globe were emerging from the shadow of a world war, and were re-evaluating their construction of foreign policy. In this thesis I utilise the Palestine Question as a prism through which to explore the nuances in the Australian conception of postwar diplomacy.

2012-12-01T00:00:00Z Fitzgerald, Zoe http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8865 2013-01-11T17:52:32Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: 'A Tale of Two Haitis: Representations of an Island Republic in the American Press Authors: Fitzgerald, Zoe Abstract: This thesis examines the representations of Haiti in the black and white American press throughout the United States Occupation, 1915-1934, and in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. It analyses how Haiti's revolutionary and colonial history has been variously celebrated and ignored, and as well as the context in which such representations took place.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Whitington, Luke http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8841 2012-12-07T17:52:34Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The End of the White Australia Policy in the Australian Labor Party; a discursive analysis with reference to postcolonialism and whiteness theory. Authors: Whitington, Luke Abstract: Labor leaders ended their commitment to a White Australia in response to the experience of the Second World War and societal changes brought about by post-war non-British migration. Previous scholarship erroneously credits the ‘baby-boomer’ generation and the ‘middle-classing’ of the ALP. Changing the policy did not mean abandoning the Australian national project or ceding control of the spaces and bodies of the nation to non-white people. Immigration would continue to be controlled to preserve working conditions and democracy. The Whitlam Government’s move toward non-racial civic nationalism proscribed racial discrimination but was productive of discourses of white Australian nationalism.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Warran, Michael http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8840 2012-12-07T17:52:46Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Exclusive Inclusion: Aboriginality, The 'Juggernaut' of Modernity and Australian National Identity. Authors: Warran, Michael Abstract: Recent studies of the problems inherent to Australian nationalism throughout the twentieth century have highlighted the consequences of Britain's efforts to dissociate itself from its imperial ties following the Second World War. The issue of defining the key elements of Australian nationhood has thus become oriented around how Australians have reacted to the increasing absence of Britishness as a source of cultural and civic identification. While not questioning the historical circumstances leading to this crisis in the Australian national imaginary, this thesis draws attention more towards the narrative of Australian nationalism which deals with the issue of securing a deeper connection to the Australian landscape in terms of a national homeland. The presence of this narrative within the twentieth century is intimately caught up in the romantic representation of Aboriginal people and their culture through European discourse, specifically how Aboriginality could be appropriated as a means of consolidating a more distinctive national culture and secure sense of place for white Australians. As will be shown in light of rhetoric emerging out of anthropological and literary discourse from the 1930s, the central problem with this intercultural dialectic involving Aboriginality and Europeanality is the way in which it has tended to include Aboriginal people only by way of their exclusion, and, moreover, functioned to undermine Aboriginal political agency.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Teoman, Darejan http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8839 2012-12-07T17:52:46Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Balancing Binaries: Michelet, Woman and the Tightrope of History Authors: Teoman, Darejan Abstract: The Nineteenth Century romantic historian Jules Michelet remains one of the canons of French history and as such much has been written concerning both Michelet the man and his approach to history. This thesis seeks to re-examine how Michelet represented woman, moving away from arguments which present Michelet as either a misogynist or a man enamoured with the entire female sex. The thesis presents an alternate perspective on Michelet and woman, suggesting that his writings regarding women were not essentially an expression of his perspective on gender. Rather, Michelet’s works concerning women must be understood in terms of his conception of history as a balancing act. The core idea influencing this thesis is that for Michelet, the tenuous balance between opposite, and at times opposing, forces was necessary to ensure progress in history. His works on the subject of women are re-interpreted in this light.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Southwood, David http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8838 2012-12-07T17:52:53Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: For the State or for the Student: Changes in Career Advice in New South Wales Secondary Schools in the Twentieth Century David Hugh Southwood A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of B.A. (Hons) in History. University of Sydney October Authors: Southwood, David Abstract: This thesis looks at how changes in the Australian Federal Government’s economic policy have affected career advice practices in New South Wales Secondary Schools. From 1927 – 75, career advice practices were primarily used to assist the nation in the process of industrialisation. However, from 1975 – 96 careers advice in schools has become increasingly marginalised as a result of the professionalisation of the role during the 1970s. The process of professionalisation had the effect of estranging Careers Advisers from the educational establishment and reducing their utility in facilitating the economic ambitions of the Federal Government.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Seymour, Brett http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8837 2012-12-07T17:52:45Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Making and breaking order via clothing Clothing regulation, cross-dressing, and the ordering mentality in later medieval and early modern England Authors: Seymour, Brett Abstract: Following the events which disrupted social stability in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, individuals from a variety of social contexts demonstrated a particular necessity to see order visibly displayed in society. This thesis examines sumptuary regulations and cross-dressing side by side to demonstrate clothing's relationship to both making and breaking order. In the act of revealing this relationship, this thesis will argue that the two cases demonstrate clothing’s importance in creating a visible confirmation of social order which ultimately brings to the surface an underlying collective ordering mentality that equated a sense of security with arranging everyone in society in their rightful place.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Rose, Sophie http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8836 2012-12-07T17:52:44Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: PASSING BY: THE LEGACY OF ROBERT MENZIES IN THE LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA A study of John Gorton, Malcolm Fraser and John Howard Authors: Rose, Sophie Abstract: This thesis considers the legacy of Robert Menzies in the Liberal Party of Australia, as articulated by Liberal party prime ministers, John Gorton, Malcolm Fraser and John Howard. It challenges the prevailing assumption in Australian historiography that Liberals have suffered from collective amnesia and have therefore not been successful in writing their own history, particularly in regards to their founder, Robert Menzies. It demonstrates that circumstances were key in shaping the way in which each prime minister thought and spoke about Menzies. It discusses how new nationalism hindered Gorton’s efforts; how liberalism inspired Fraser’s efforts; and how Howard’s belief in the importance of history drove his articulation of Menzies’ legacy.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Roberts, Natasha http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8835 2012-12-07T17:52:52Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Australian Post-War Utopia: Reconsidering Herbert Evatt’s human rights contribution in the 1940’s Authors: Roberts, Natasha Abstract: This thesis contests the assumption that Herbert Evatt’s 1940’s career was devoted to the promotion of a universal post-war human rights regime. As Australian Minister for External Affairs, Evatt developed an independent small state strategy that pursued a system of international democracy and social justice to facilitate the expansion of Australian influence in the Pacific and curb American hegemony. Evatt’s subscription to the White Australia Policy undermined the realization of human rights by strengthening domestic sovereignty against international intervention. Human rights became the vehicle through which Evatt sought to shape the post-war order for the benefit of Australian national interests.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Ower, Lucinda http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8834 2012-12-07T17:52:33Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: FROM PANACEA TO PROBLEM: THE DEMONISATION OF OPIUM IN LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITAIN Authors: Ower, Lucinda Abstract: This thesis considers the multivalent role of opium in the last decades of the nineteenth century in Britain. It traces the not insignificant changes to the perception of the safety and suitability of opiate use in medical and non-medical contexts between their instigation in the 1870s until century’s close. It argues that there is a paucity of meaningful contextualisation and synthesis of opium in the existing historical scholarship. By re-assessing three particular historiographical landmarks in this field, this work contributes historical detail of the medical, cultural, and scientific character of this period, and critique of the scholarly approach to opium in late-nineteenth-century England.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Nolan, Rosa http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8833 2012-12-07T17:52:41Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ‘We want to do what they did’: History at St Clair Authors: Nolan, Rosa Abstract: In 1999 the Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation acquired the site of the former St Clair Mission where their forebears lived. They will recreate to turn it into a cultural centre that will sustain and strengthen their community and they are pursuing reclamation and recreation of language, material culture, art, family and public history projects. They do so in the context of Native Title legislation and debates about Aboriginality and identity shape their relationship to their past. The historiographical significance of their relationship to the past is that it challenges the modes of engaging with history that have justified and structured colonial history making.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Nanlohy, Owen http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8832 2012-12-07T17:52:36Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: “A TEST OF LOYALTY”: A HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY AND THE UNITED STATES ALLIANCE 1960 – 1967 Authors: Nanlohy, Owen Abstract: During the 1950s and 1960s Australian foreign policy was focused on ensuring the presence of the United States in South East Asia and the consequent protection of Australia under the ANZUS Treaty. For the Australian Labor Party between 1960 and 1967 the fundamental test of its readiness for government was the positions it took on issues relating to the Alliance. This thesis sheds light on the ALP’s vision for the Alliance during the period.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Mylchreest, Lucinda http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8831 2012-12-07T17:52:42Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ‘An Atmosphere of Uncertainty’ The Struggle Over Mormon Polygamy in 1850s Utah Authors: Mylchreest, Lucinda Abstract: Historians have typically interpreted Mormon polygamy in nineteenth-century America through the lens of religious doctrine. This study takes a cultural approach and examines polygamous practice during its formative period in the 1850s by looking closely at two families, the Hales and the Heywoods. Private diaries, letters, and other family papers were used to reconstruct their relationships and analysis sheds light on how they viewed the marriages. The lived experiences of these Mormon pioneers show that polygamy was experimental. Men and women drew on traditional marital values such as domesticity and romantic love when negotiating their atypical marriages.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Murray, Zoe http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8830 2012-12-07T17:52:37Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: To maintain order amongst a disreputable people: The case of Captain Armstrong, colonial governance and scandal at the antipodes, 1878-1887 Authors: Murray, Zoe Abstract: On 4 April 1882, the New South Wales government steamer Thetis arrived at Lord Howe Island bearing J. Bowie Wilson, recently appointed commissioner of an inquiry into the conduct of the Island’s resident magistrate, Captain Richard Armstrong. Following a hastily convened investigation, Wilson recommended that the government confirm Armstrong’s suspension from office. Armstrong claimed he had done nothing to deserve the dismissal and that Wilson’s inquiry made a mockery of justice. So, while the colonial press initially expressed indignation against Armstrong’s alleged wrongdoings, over time the focus of moral outrage shifted to Wilson. This thesis explores the case of Captain Armstrong, a prominent scandal in 1880s New South Wales. It traces Armstrong’s connection with Lord Howe Island from its beginning in 1878 to its end in 1887, when he finally received tangible recognition of injustice, £1500 compensation. By untangling the many threads of the Armstrong case, it is possible to paint a vivid and detailed picture of colonial governance in late nineteenth-century New South Wales. It is not merely that the case highlights the experience of a minor official in a remote outpost – a much neglected area of Australian and imperial history – but that subsequent press and parliamentary debates reveal some of the most vexing issues in colonial society. It sheds light on the contemporary temperance movement, competing ideals of masculine character and pervasive anxieties surrounding the issue of the colony’s reputation. The Armstrong case provides compelling evidence that colonial governance, whether in a remote outpost or an established colony, was a fragile enterprise, fraught with contradictions and anxieties.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Murchie, Clare http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8829 2012-12-07T17:52:36Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: REHABILITATING “A FEW DISAFFECTED CHARACTERS”: IRELAND’S MEN OF ’98 FROM A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Authors: Murchie, Clare Abstract: The Irish Rebellion of 1798 has generated a fraught legacy. Its history has been variously skewed by elitist and partisan accounts which overshadow more balanced scholarship. These works have proved crucial in the proliferation of a mythologised Ireland in which the Catholic is pitted against the Protestant; the Gaelic against the Anglo-Irish; the tyrant against the slave. This thesis unpacks such problematic binaries by tracing Ireland’s political prisoners of 1798 to colonial New South Wales. Much of the historiography is dated and sharply divided, portraying these rebels as perennially recalcitrant, or alternatively, as national heroes. This thesis presents an alternative reading by arguing that these transportees often fell short of their revolutionary reputations in exile, instead making significant contributions to the colony in its formative years. By examining Irish political prisoners in both Ireland and New South Wales, this thesis demonstrates the value of reassessing 1798 from a transnational perspective. History, like individual lives, crossed (and re-crossed) oceans – and was shaped by the journey.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Mulders-Jones, Declan http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8828 2012-12-07T17:52:44Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: “Petticoat Government”: The Eaton Affair and Jacksonian Political Cultures Authors: Mulders-Jones, Declan Abstract: Though typically trivialised by historians, the Eaton Affair preoccupied Andrew Jackson throughout his first presidency and lived on in nineteenth-century popular memory. This thesis sets aside dismissive, partisan and elitist scholarship, revisiting the contemporary evidence to demonstrate the Eaton Affair comprised two distinct scandals. In doing so, a heretofore unexamined dissonance between the place of women in mass and elite Jacksonian political cultures is also revealed. The clash of these cultures in the Eaton Affair would shape both for years to come: stigmatising “petticoat government” among the masses while severely curtailing its practice within the informal politicking of Washington.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Light, Rowan http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8827 2012-12-07T17:52:32Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: From ‘Irish Exile’ to ‘Australian pagan’: the Christian Brothers, Irish handball, and identity in early twentieth-century Australia Authors: Light, Rowan Abstract: Migrant histories necessarily consider human journeys to new social and cultural realities, marked by discourse around integration and identity. The historiography of the Irish in Australia, dominated by historian Patrick O'Farrell, has lost its fundamental engagement with ordinary migrant experience and fixated on a narrative of nationalism, hierarchy, and elitist politics. This thesis examines the experience of the Irish Christian Brothers in early twentieth-century Australia and the playing of Irish handball in their colleges across the country. In doing so, it seeks a new understanding of Irish-Australian identity through the complex relationship of Catholicism, education, and sport; questioning the extent to which Gaelic games assuaged the transformative and dislocational processes of migration beyond O'Farrell's notion of Irish integration as an imperative of ‘Australianise or perish’.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Ishii, Noriyuki http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8826 2012-12-07T17:52:39Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Japan be Number One Internationalism and History of Japanese Diplomacy, 1853-2006 Authors: Ishii, Noriyuki Abstract: This thesis engages with two bodies of scholarship: Japanese diplomacy and internationalism. Japan’s interaction with the international community and how it started and developed in the course of history is analysed. It is argued that Japanese leaders had strived to grant Japan a just place in the world. Their path, however, was not a straightforward one. The problems caused by identity issues, a West-centric world order, and the concept of ‘honour’ muddled the Japanese attempt. The words and practices of key figures were examined to illustrate the comprehensive development of Japanese diplomacy and internationalism between 1853 and 2006.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Bowes, Dominic http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8825 2012-12-07T17:52:52Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Exposing Indecency: Censorship and Sydney's Alternative Press 1963-1973 Authors: Bowes, Dominic Abstract: The ‘alternative press’ arose in the Sixties as a medium of protest that gave voice to the concerns of the emergent youth revolt. This thesis uses these magazines as a lens through which to analyse how censorship was challenged. The thesis begins by examining how the act of producing the alternative press reflected a form of direct action. An anti-authoritarian gesture borne particularly out of the politics of Sydney Libertarianism they challenged the style and focus of the mainstream media. Their most dramatic realignment focussed on the politics of sexuality. I demonstrate for the first time how the sexual revolution was theorised by its self-assigned agents. By publishing otherwise taboo material the editors predictably became entangled with the state’s censorship apparatus. The final portion of this thesis analyses these often- neglected clashes over ‘obscenity.’ It demonstrates the centrality of these contests to the demise of censorship regimes at both the state and federal level.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Donohoo, Jillian http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8824 2012-12-07T17:52:38Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Terre Vraiment Étrange: French Travel Writing in Australia between the Gold Rush and Federation Authors: Donohoo, Jillian Abstract: Despite the rich heritage of the French in Australia, its corresponding field of scholarship is limited. This thesis will explore the travel writings of ten French men and women who visited Australia between the Gold Rush and Federation. Their writings constructed Australia through the lens of exoticism, as a land truly other to their experiences in Europe. Three key themes emerge across the writings: the bizarre animals and plants, the ‘savage’ Indigenous Australians, and the surprise of developed cities. Overall, this thesis will synthesise the French perspective on Australia from a corpus of essentially untapped yet highly revealing travel writings.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Crealy, Isobel http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8823 2012-12-07T17:52:29Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: “Sendyth to hym Concyens”: Contested Orthodoxies in Fifteenth Century East Anglia Authors: Crealy, Isobel Abstract: This is a study of the changes in the expression of conscience within East Anglia in the fifteenth century. The ritualistic dimensions of performance are considered as to the way they demonstrate authority within a variety of performative settings. The Everyman as individual was increasingly empowered to express conscience, independent of the hegemonic voices of established institutions. A growing number of East Anglians exercised individual free will by contesting the primacy and legitimacy of prevailing power groups. The Macro morality plays are explored as representations of orthodoxy that provided the opportunity for the individual to respond and shape their conscience.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Guyot, Lucienne http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8822 2012-12-07T17:52:42Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: 'Fighting My Way Through': Northern Rural Women in the American Civil War Authors: Guyot, Lucienne Abstract: Rural women are almost entirely absent in the voluminous scholarship on the American Civil War. Yet women were more than volunteers and nurses during this conflict; they also worked the land, helping the North to achieve an unprecedented agricultural output, despite the enlistment of millions of Northern men in the army. This thesis tracks the fate of two Vermont farm families in order to analyse rural women's wartime experiences. Using their personal letters coupled with local histories, Vermont newspapers, government documents and a range of printed sources focused on rural life, this thesis maps the way farmwomen coped with the challenges of running farms alone. Widely recognised during the war for their contribution in sustaining the Northern economy and feeding the army, rural women would later be thoroughly forgotten.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Gribble, Samuel http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8821 2012-12-09T15:52:25Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: “Harry the Ninth (The Uncrowned King of Scotland)”: Henry Dundas and the Politics of Self‐Interest, 1790‐1802 Authors: Gribble, Samuel Abstract: The career of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville underscores the importance of individual self-interest in British public life during the 1790-1802 Revolutionary Wars with France. Examining the political intrigue surrounding Dundas’ 1806 impeachment, the manner in which he established his political power, and contemporary critiques of self-interest, this thesis both complicates and adds nuance to understandings of the political culture of ‘Old Corruption’ in the late-Georgian era. As this thesis demonstrates, despite the wealth of opportunities for personal enrichment, individual self-interest was not always focused on obtaining sinecures and financial windfalls. Instead, men like Henry Dundas were primarily focused upon amassing their own political power. In the inherently chaotic politics of the period, the self-seeking concerns of individuals like Henry Dundas, very quickly could, and indeed did, become the thread upon which the whole British political system turned.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Gorman, Zachary http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8820 2012-12-07T17:52:35Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Debating a Tiger Cub: The Anti-Socialist Campaign Authors: Gorman, Zachary Abstract: The anti-socialist campaign was a key moment in Australian history that established the ideological discourse of Australian politics. This thesis will provide the first stand-alone narrative and analytical account of the campaign. It will examine the role the campaign played in the evolution of Australian politics from policy based groupings to permanent ideological parties. It will also analyse the ideological legacy of the campaign for Australian liberalism, as well as looking at the way that the campaign contributed to the development of an Australian national media.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Condie, Michael http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8819 2012-12-07T17:52:51Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ‘It’s Mabo, It’s the Constitution, It’s the Vibe’: Debates over the ‘active citizen’ and Aboriginal history in the NSW History Syllabus in the 1980s and 1990s Authors: Condie, Michael

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Butterfield, Amy http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8818 2012-12-07T17:52:50Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: “SEND ME A BONNET”: Colonial Connections, Class Consciousness and Sartorial Display in Colonial Australia, 1788-1850 Authors: Butterfield, Amy Abstract: From the outset of British settler until the onset of the Gold Rush, many wealthy settler women in New South Wales sought to acquire clothing, not from local suppliers, but through family and friends residing in Britain who purchased items on their behalf. Yet this pattern was not repeated either among emancipists or by free settlers Van Diemen’s Land. This thesis, through an analysis of the letters left by settler women, posits that this practice of privately importing clothing was in fact a strategy by which they could reinforce their superior social status in the colony. For this practice not only allowed settler women to acquire clothing in manner denied to emancipists, but also to distinguish themselves from a society and culture defined by emancipists and instead identify with but a transnational network of colonial elites, who regards Britain as their true ‘home’.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Gorman, Jospeh http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8817 2012-12-07T17:52:34Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Off the Ball: Ethnicity, Commercialism and Australian Football, 1974-2004 Authors: Gorman, Jospeh Abstract: Despite its seemingly marginal role in Australian sport, football (soccer) contributed significantly to public debates regarding multiculturalism and imagined Australian national identity. This thesis explores the relationship between the ongoing de-ethnicisation of Australian football and the game’s rapid commercialisation. I contend that the introduction of a new professional competition in 2004 rounded out decades of attempts by football administrators to downplay the ethnic image of the game in order to sell the game to a ‘mainstream’ audience.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Daly, Philippa http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8816 2012-12-07T17:52:35Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Lone White Faces: Australian Foreign Policy & the Nixon Doctrine Authors: Daly, Philippa Abstract: On 25 July 1969, President Richard Nixon would announce a new direction in American foreign policy towards Asia that would have far reaching implications for its ANZUS partner in Australia. This study aims to map out the affects the Nixon Doctrine would have on Australian policy reforms in an attempt to critically examine the forces within international politics that saw Australia comprehensively engage with its Asia neighbours. This Asian region, which had previously been looked at with fear, was gradually viewed in the light of Nixon’s new policies as the only path to Australia’s long-standing future in the region.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Bendall, Sarah http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8815 2012-12-07T17:52:49Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Bodies, Stays, Bodices and Busks: The Early Modern Corset and the Performance of Gender and Sexuality in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England Authors: Bendall, Sarah Abstract: This thesis recovers the early modern corset – ‘bodies’, ‘stays’, ‘bodices’, ‘busks’ - from the fashion history timeline in order to reveal how these material objects and their interaction with the female body formed a central component of gender and sexuality in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. The corset shaped the torso physically, visually and discursively, inscribing sex and class onto the female body. This thesis argues that corsets and their accessories not only reveal the varying notions of gender and sexuality during this period, but ultimately show how the clothed body ‘performed’ or ‘staged’ culturally-approved notions of femininity and sexual desire.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Bedward, Alice http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8814 2012-12-07T17:52:48Z 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: 'Spectacles of Plenty': The USSR Exhibition of Achievements in Science, Technology, and Culture in New York City, 1959 Authors: Bedward, Alice Abstract: In 1959 the USSR Exhibition of Achievements in Science, Technology, and Culture was envisioned as an unparalleled opportunity to demonstrate how socialism had transformed the Soviet Union into a powerful and technologically advanced nation, on American soil. Today the Exhibition has been largely forgotten, lost with the dissolution of the USSR, and of its rival vision of progressive modernity. Utilising previously neglected or dismissed Soviet and U.S. sources, this paper examines the Exhibition as a site of convergence, to illuminate its meanings and significance, and to underscore the centrality of ‘spectacles of plenty’ in Cold War East-West engagement.

2012-11-01T00:00:00Z Barrat, Tiarne http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8813 2012-12-07T17:52:47Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Ill-conceived History: An Analysis of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Pill Authors: Barrat, Tiarne Abstract: The fiftieth anniversary of the pill was an international commemorative event celebrated in 2010, and this thesis is an analysis of the use of history within this anniversary literature. Within the fiftieth anniversary, commemorators relied heavily on the idea of the past in order to make contemporary narratives of the pill appear less controversial to a popular audience. This supressed the polyvalent nature of the pill and resulted in an extremely narrow presentation of this history. This thesis analyses these commemorations as they occurred in the United States and Australia, concluding that this anniversary demonstrated an expedient use of public history.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Florek, Karol http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8677 2012-09-21T18:52:30Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Cultures of Rebelliosness and Repression in a Mining City: Guanajuato, 1766-1767 Authors: Florek, Karol Abstract: n/a

2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Raeburn, James http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8626 2012-08-08T16:52:39Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ‘Mere sympathy is not enough’: Glasgow and the Spanish Civil War Authors: Raeburn, James Abstract: Despite its central role in the British efforts to combat General Franco and his fascist allies, previous studies on Britain and the Spanish Civil War have largely ignored Glasgow’s contribution. This thesis examines the relationship between Glasgow and Spain, including Glaswegian volunteers fighting in Spain, Aid Spain movements in Glasgow and the lingering impact these events had on working-class memory and history in Glasgow and Scotland. It contends that Glasgow’s experience of Spain differed significantly from other places in Britain, and that a top-down, national approach to such histories has concealed important local and regional complexities.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z McMinn, Tempe http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8625 2012-08-08T16:52:38Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ‘With Friends Like These’: Human Rights, Neoconservatism and U.S. Foreign Policy from Carter to Reagan. Authors: McMinn, Tempe Abstract: This thesis engages with two emerging bodies of scholarship: the history of human rights and the history of U.S. neoconservatism. It begins with an exploration of the genesis of the contemporary international human rights movement, arguing that human rights as we know and understand them today were a product of the latter half of the twentieth century. Their path, however, was not a clear one. The emergence of neoconservative ideology in U.S. domestic politics would greatly impact upon the trajectory of the human rights movement under the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. The latter period witnessed a conflict between America’s Watch and the Reagan administration over human rights as an ‘idea’ and as praxis, with U.S. policy towards Latin America as the primary battle field .

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bates, Sarah http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8624 2012-08-08T16:52:37Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Casement Contra Casement: Liberalism, Empire and the Radicalisation of the Tohought of Roger Casement Authors: Bates, Sarah Abstract: THIS THESIS examines the political thought of Roger Casement (1864–1916). A knighted humanitarian imperialist famed for his exposure of widespread human rights atrocities in the Congo and Amazon, Casement was hanged for high treason following his revolutionary republican gun running into Ireland on the eve of the Easter Uprising. Examining the content and conditions of Casement’s seemingly paradoxical political ideas, it will be argued that his anti-imperialism was continuous with and derived from his humanitarian expansionism and his unique practical experiences of the contradictions of liberal imperialism. In so doing, this thesis demonstrates the complexity and fluidity of liberal thought as it was navigated by contemporary individuals, illustrating the extent to which arguments about self-determination and decolonisation were not just external critiques of empire, but developed from within empire itself.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Aghazarian, Armen http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8623 2012-08-08T16:52:33Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ‘We the Peoples of Asia and Africa’ The Bandung Conference and the Southernisation of the United Nations, 1955 – 1970 Authors: Aghazarian, Armen Abstract: ‘We the Peoples of Asia and Africa’ The Bandung Conference and the Southernisation of the United Nations, 1955 – 1970

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ryan, Hannah http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7999 2011-12-13T16:01:13Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: An Intimate Revolution: Fascism, Sexuality and Kommune I in 1960s West Germany Authors: Ryan, Hannah Abstract: Subversive voices within the German New Left developed a discourse which linked the rise of fascism in Germany with repressed sexuality. In response, a group of Berlin students founded a commune in 1967, attempting to liberate sexuality and revolutionise relationships. Kommune I’s provocative antiauthoritarianism led to infamy and derision from mainstream Germany, and the commune ended in political failure. While the historiography has refused to see the commune as a serious political project, this thesis argues that Kommune I warrants a more considered examination as a moral and political response to the Nazi past. Drawing on intellectual, social, and cultural history, it explores the power and limitations of this discourse in post-war Germany society.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Fisher, Simon http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7997 2011-12-12T16:00:38Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: An Era of Two Images: Japan in the Eyes of the Australian Public 1950-1960 Authors: Fisher, Simon Abstract: Since Federation Australia had largely regarded Japan as a nation that posed a direct threat to its way of life, a view seemingly proved correct in World War Two. Yet by the end of the 1950s, a mere fifteen years after the war ended, Australians were more positive about their Japanese neighbours than ever before. This thesis seeks to explore why public opinion moved so dramatically over these years by studying a select series of events, ranging from the Treaty of Peace with Japan to art exhibitions, throughout the decade.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Willet, Mary http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7995 2011-12-09T18:01:19Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: THE WORD OF A GENTLEMAN AND THE OATH OF A PATRIOT: Military Parole in the American Civil War Authors: Willet, Mary Abstract: The use and eventual demise of military parole in the American Civil War provides a key insight into the changing nature of ‘military honour’ in America’s bloodiest conflict. This thesis will use parole to examine America’s engagement and dedication to European international law, the prevalence of ‘honour’ in Union and Confederate armies and the way a pre-war culture of honour was challenged both by the harsh realities of nineteenth-century warfare and by the uniquely American way parole was employed during the Civil War.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Thompson, Andrew http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7993 2011-12-09T18:01:18Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Defining the Nation: The Wider Discussions on White Australia and the Japanese Racial Equality Clause Authors: Thompson, Andrew Abstract: Australia’s involvement in the rejection of the Japanese racial equality clause, at the Peace Conference of 1919, has been noted by contemporaries and historians as a significant event in Australia’s nationalism. Often portrayed as Prime Minister William Morris Hughes’ struggle to preserve White Australia and therefore the nation, sources and opinions divergent from Hughes’ have not been fully explored. A contrast of these sources to the traditional legacy of the episode using a thematic framework of nation, labour and defence, demonstrates the significance that the denial of the clause had on Australia and the complexity of discussion it inspired.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Selden, Oscar http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7992 2011-12-09T18:01:23Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Chilly Relationships: The use of history and memory in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. Authors: Selden, Oscar Abstract: Jindabyne is a town that has undergone dramatic structural change over the past 60 years. From a small pastoral community, Jindabyne has grown to become a premier tourist destination due to its close proximity to New South Wales’ ski resorts. This growth has been a product of the introduction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme, the Kosciusko National Park and the tourism industry along with the career opportunities provided by these industries. This growth has resulted in a shift of power from the traditional grazing community to other sections of the community. History is used by these sections of the community to legitimise their position in society. This thesis explores how and why this history has been used.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Sellwood, Claire http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7991 2011-12-09T18:01:22Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ‘All sorts and conditions of men’: Beckett’s Budget, masculinity and sensational working-class journalism in inter-war Australia Authors: Sellwood, Claire Abstract: This thesis closely analyses John Sleeman’s sensational newspaper Beckett’s Budget, a notorious commercial and political publication in Sydney’s inter-war press market. It considers the paper’s role in working-class, pro-Labor, political discourse, particularly its strategy of combining hard-line class debates with highly salacious reports of domestic crime and divorce. It argues that gender and class, particularly anxieties about masculinity, were central to Sleeman’s commercial and political strategies. Drawing on media theory debates about sensationalism, the thesis explores the nature and function of this form of commercial, campaigning journalism and the impact it had on political communication.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Parkinson, Naomi http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7990 2011-12-09T18:01:22Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Greeting the Stranger: Examining the (un)familiar in Australia’s detention history Authors: Parkinson, Naomi Abstract: Despite the contemporary explosiveness of asylum seekers and their treatment in Australia, the complex vicissitudes of its history have been glossed over. Focusing specifically on the evolution of detention legislation, this thesis places Australia’s treatment of ‘boat people’ within the framework of the 1980s migration debates, preoccupations with illegal immigration and the development of Australia’s ‘proud humanitarian record.’ It criticises historians’ exemplification of the 1992 mandatory detention legislation as a ‘watershed’ moment, and shows that this legislation only solidified a policy with a deeper and more complex history.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Lim, Gerard http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7989 2011-12-09T18:01:21Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A Misunderstood Power China, the US, and a year of deteriorating relations, 2010. Authors: Lim, Gerard Abstract: The year 2010 witnessed a dramatic decline in the US-China relationship, primarily over issues related to the Chinese currency, geopolitics, and human rights. Beijing’s apparent intransigence over these issues led to the perception of China’s growing assertiveness, prompting Washington to harden its stance vis-a-vis Beijing. As this thesis will show, however, such notions misinterpreted the rationale behind Beijing’s stand over the issues, distorting in the process the true nature of China’s rise. Consequently, US pressure served only to aggravate tensions between the two countries, contributing ultimately to the deterioration in bilateral relations.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Levin, Joshua http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7988 2011-12-09T18:01:20Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Much Ado About Nothing: British Non-Intervention During The American Civil War Authors: Levin, Joshua Abstract: During the American Civil War the Federals and Confederates believed that Britain was likely to intervene. This belief is pervasive in current historiography, which argues that Britain was constantly on the threshold of interfering in the American conflict. Taking a longer view of the Anglo-American diplomatic relationship, as well as the relevance of contextual British economic, social, political and foreign policy interests and limitations, this thesis argues that Britain was never going to abandon neutrality. Drawing on the personal papers and official correspondence of diplomats and politicians, it becomes clear that occasionally aggressive transatlantic rhetoric was a negotiating strategy for two nations concerned with maintaining peace at all costs.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Byrne, Liam http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7986 2011-12-09T18:01:18Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Towards a Better Union: The formation and development of the National Union of Students (Australia) Authors: Byrne, Liam Abstract: The National Union of Students was established in 1987 and began function in its full capacity the following year after a long and contested formation process that involved as many failures as successes. Both at the time and during periods of political tension since the structure and organisation of the union have come under intense criticism for entrenching the factional power of the Labor students. This thesis closely examines the processes by which the NUS was formed and places the internal political contests that shaped the early union within a broader structural framework.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Blum, Timothy http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7985 2012-05-01T17:09:12Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Profits Over Patriotism: Black Market Crime in World War II Sydney Authors: Blum, Timothy Abstract: This thesis examines the multi-faceted phenomenon of black market crime in World War II Sydney. Using previously classified archives, coupled with oral sources and newspaper articles I provide a complete survey of this phenomenon. As a concept the black market was a social construct with a level of stigma attached to offenders that would not exist in peace time. This was moral policing. I begin by discussing the relationship between the geography and morals of the city. Both women and men in Sydney related to the black market differently. I outline and evaluate the official response to the problem. I also examine broader community attitudes in relation to this issue. The research provided here should form the basis for a more comprehensive understanding of white-collar crime and the moral regulation of behaviour.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis, Stephen http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7984 2011-12-09T18:01:15Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Fighting for Empire: the contribution and experience of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles first contingent in the South African War. Authors: Francis, Stephen Abstract: The South African War was Australia’s first war. Historians have insufficiently acknowledged the contribution of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles first contingent in this conflict. Unlike most Australian soldiers, the Mounted Rifles had a unique experience. Taking part in both the conventional and guerrilla phase of the war, they encountered both a familiar and unfamiliar war. After the war, they returned to a society that was largely indifferent towards them. This thesis improves our understanding of Australia’s contribution in the South African War and reveals how the antipodes were actively involved in a wider imperial network.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Knight, Jessica http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7983 2011-12-09T18:01:20Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: 'A Poisonous Cup?’ Afternoon Tea in Australian Society, 1870-1914 Authors: Knight, Jessica Abstract: This thesis examines the ceremonies and rituals that emerged around the taking of afternoon tea in Australia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Drawing on recent historiography of manners and social relationships, it explores how afternoon tea infiltrated many aspects of daily life and helped define boundaries between gender, public and private, rural and urban, work and leisure. This thesis contributes to the small body of research on tea drinking and domestic life in Australia. Its methodology combines cultural analysis with investigation of the material apparatus and tangible social locations of afternoon tea, offering unexpected insight into the tensions that surfaced as Australian society evolved into a modern nation.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Beale, Greta http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7982 2012-05-01T17:09:11Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A “Foreign” Country? Australia and Britain at Empire’s End. Authors: Beale, Greta Abstract: This thesis explores the process by which Australia came to view Britain as a “foreign” country. Firstly, it examines the introduction of the 1962 United Kingdom Commonwealth Immigrants Act, and the implications that this Act had for Australians and their perception of their British identity. The declining sense of Britishness in Australia is further assessed in light of the tightening of immigration controls under the 1971 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, which essentially rendered the majority of Australians ‘aliens.’ Finally, the symbolic transfer of the administration of Australia House from the responsibility of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to the Department of Foreign Affairs, indicated the end of the “special” relationship between Britain and Australia. However, the process of placing Britain on a foreign footing was fraught with difficulty, indicating the enduring nature of Britishness in the Australian national psyche.

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