School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Japan be Number One Internationalism and History of Japanese Diplomacy, 1853-2006
Published 2012-11-01This 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 ...Open AccessThesis -
Exclusive Inclusion: Aboriginality, The 'Juggernaut' of Modernity and Australian National Identity.
Published 2012-11-01Recent 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 ...Open AccessThesis -
“Sendyth to hym Concyens”: Contested Orthodoxies in Fifteenth Century East Anglia
Published 2012-11-01This 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 ...Open AccessThesis -
“SEND ME A BONNET”: Colonial Connections, Class Consciousness and Sartorial Display in Colonial Australia, 1788-1850
Published 2012-11-01From 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 ...Open AccessThesis -
The Australian Post-War Utopia: Reconsidering Herbert Evatt’s human rights contribution in the 1940’s
Published 2012-11-01This 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 ...Open AccessThesis