Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915-1940

Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915-1940
Author: Michael Roe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2002-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521523264

The story of Australia's post-war immigration program is well known, but little has been written about migration to Australia between the wars. This 1995 book is a systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Australian politicians and bureaucrats involved in the program and the half-million migrants who uprooted themselves. While their imperial ties were significant, the book shows that British and Australian governments acted in their own interests, using migration to meet their different needs, with little regard for the migrants themselves. Michael Roe shows that the Anglo-Australian relationship was rife with contradictions and these often came to a head in the debates over migration. Not only is the book an important study of imperial relations in the 1920s and 1930s, it describes an important and overlooked aspect of Australian political and social history.

D.H. Lawrence's Australia

D.H. Lawrence's Australia
Author: David Game
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 131715505X

The first full-length account of D.H. Lawrence’s rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, D.H. Lawrence’s Australia focuses on the philosophical, anthropological and literary influences that informed the utopian and regenerative visions that characterise so much of Lawrence’s work. David Game gives particular attention to the four novels and one novella published between 1920 and 1925, what Game calls Lawrence’s 'Australian period,' shedding new light on Lawrence’s attitudes towards Australia in general and, more specifically, towards Australian Aborigines, women and colonialism. He revisits key aspects of Lawrence’s development as a novelist and thinker, including the influence of Darwin and Lawrence’s rejection of eugenics, Christianity, psychoanalysis and science. While Game concentrates on the Australian novels such as Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush, he also uncovers the Australian elements in a range of other works, including Lawrence’s last novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Lawrence lived in Australia for just three months, but as Game shows, it played a significant role in his quest for a way of life that would enable regeneration of the individual in the face of what Lawrence saw as the moral collapse of modern industrial civilisation after the outbreak of World War I.

D.H. Lawrence's Australia

D.H. Lawrence's Australia
Author: Dr David Game
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2015-08-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1472415078

The first full-length account of D.H. Lawrence’s rich engagement with a country he found both fascinating and frustrating, D.H. Lawrence’s Australia focuses on the philosophical, anthropological and literary influences that informed the utopian and regenerative visions that characterise so much of Lawrence’s work. David Game gives particular attention to the four novels and one novella published between 1920 and 1925, what Game calls Lawrence’s 'Australian period,' shedding new light on Lawrence’s attitudes towards Australia in general and, more specifically, towards Australian Aborigines, women and colonialism. He revisits key aspects of Lawrence’s development as a novelist and thinker, including the influence of Darwin and Lawrence’s rejection of eugenics, Christianity, psychoanalysis and science. While Game concentrates on the Australian novels such as Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush, he also uncovers the Australian elements in a range of other works, including Lawrence’s last novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Lawrence lived in Australia for just three months, but as Game shows, it played a significant role in his quest for a way of life that would enable regeneration of the individual in the face of what Lawrence saw as the moral collapse of modern industrial civilisation after the outbreak of World War I.

Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War

Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War
Author: Joy Damousi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316453766

In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory studies, Joy Damousi considers the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept of remembrance within the larger context of migration to show how intergenerational experience of war and trauma transcend both place and nation. Drawing from the most recent research in memory, trauma and transnationalism, Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War deals with the continuities and discontinuities of war stories, assimilation in modern Australia, politics and activism, child migration and memories of mothers and children in war. Damousi sheds new light on aspects of forgotten memory and silence within families and communities, and in particular the ways in which past experience of violence and tragedy is both negotiated and processed.

Agents of Empire

Agents of Empire
Author: Lisa Chilton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2007-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442691662

The period between the 1860s and the 1920s saw a wave of female migration from Britain to Canada and Australia, much of which was managed by women. In Agents of Empire, Lisa Chilton explores the work of the women who promoted, managed, and ultimately transformed single British women's experiences of migration. Chilton examines the origins of women-run female emigration societies through various aspects of their work and the responses they received from emigrants and settled colonists. Working in the face of apathy in the community, resistance by other (usually male) managers of imperial migration, and agency exerted by the women they sought to manage, the emigrators endeavoured to maintain control over the field until government agencies took it over in the aftermath of the First World War. Agents of Empire highlights the aims and methods behind the emigrators' work, as well as the implications and ramifications of their long-term engagement with this imperialistic feminizing project. Chilton provides tremendous insight into the struggle for control of female migration and female migrants, aiding greatly in the study of gender, migration, and empire.

The British World

The British World
Author: Carl Bridge
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135759596

This collection of essays is based upon the assumption that the British Empire was held together not merely by ties of trade and defence, but by a shared sense of British identity that linked British communities around the globe. Focusing on the themes of migration, identity and the media, this book is an exploration of these and other interconnected themes that help define the British World of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

From White Australia to Woomera

From White Australia to Woomera
Author: James Jupp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2007-04-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0521697891

Immigration specialist James Jupp surveys changes in immigration policy since 1972.

Fairbridge

Fairbridge
Author: Chris Jeffery
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136224866

This study investigates the motives for the establishment of the Fairbridge child migration scheme, examines its history in Australia and Canada, and outlines the experiences of many of the former child migrants.

Australia in the Global Economy

Australia in the Global Economy
Author: Barrie Dyster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2012-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107683831

Explores the evolution of Australia's position in the global economy from the start of the twentieth century through to today.

Britain and the Sea

Britain and the Sea
Author: Glen O'Hara
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2010-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350306959

O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day. This all-encompassing account covers individual seafarers, ship-borne migration, warfare and the maritime economy, as well as the British people's maritime ideas and self perception throughout the centuries.