Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Harry Crawford v History: Problem Bodies, Queertrans Cosmogonies, and Historiographical Ethics in Cases of Gender Transgression in Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century Australia
Published 2018-01-01The predominant cultural metanarrative of transgender existence is that we sprang fully formed into being sometime in the 1960s, like Athena stepping out of Zeus’s skull. And yet in every corner of human history we find ...Open AccessThesis -
Heir to the Empire: Robert Menzies and The United States of America
Published 2018-05-29Open AccessThesis -
Reconsidering the Troubles: An examination of paramilitary and state violence in Northern Ireland
Published 2018-05-29In the bitter sectarian conflict of the Northern Ireland Troubles, which spanned the years 1966- 1998, culpability has usually been firmly placed in the actions of the Irish Republican Army, a group seeking reunification ...Open AccessThesis -
Suez: A Crisis of British Identity Interrogating the narrative of British strength in the press coverage during the 1956 Suez Crisis
Published 2018-05-29The Suez Crisis in 1956 has been identified as a critical turning point for Britain as the global spheres of powers shifted after the war. Although the crisis marks a deterioration of Britain’s geopolitical reputation ...Open AccessThesis -
The Legacy of the June 4 Incident on the Sydney Chinese Community: A study of the short-term and long-term impacts of the June 4 Incident on the Chinese community of Sydney
Published 2018-05-29This thesis examines the legacy of the June 4 Incident on the Sydney Chinese community in the immediate aftermath of the event, and in the years that followed. By making the focus of the thesis primary accounts from members ...Open AccessThesis