Browsing Volume 28, 2012 by Title
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‘Australia Speaks’: Reactions to Political Opinion Polls in Australia 1941-1943
(Flinders University, 2012)Political opinion polls came to Australia in the first years of World War Two. Their entry into the political arena caused much discussion about the role of the polls and about their creators. Despite the best efforts of ... -
Australian Participation in the Spanish Civil War
(Flinders University, 2012)A small number of Australians participated directly in the Spanish Civil War without the sanction of their Government. A few lost their lives. This article discusses some of the motivating factors that encouraged these ... -
Biography, history, agency: where have all the ‘great men’ gone?
(Flinders University, 2012)From the 19th century, the biography has stood at the heart of the Western historical enterprise. The ‘great men’ of history have been valorised as the sources of change in the world. Yet, biography has equally been decried ... -
Book review: Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of South Australia’s Frontier Wars
(Flinders University, 2012)Book review: Robert Foster and Amanda Nettelbeck, Out of the Silence: The History and Memory of South Australia’s Frontier Wars, Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2012. -
Book review: The Indian Bourgeoisie: a political history of the Indian capitalist class in the early Twentieth Century
(Flinders University, 2012)Book review: David Lockwood, The Indian Bourgeoisie: a political history of the Indian capitalist class in the early Twentieth Century, London & New York, I.B Taurus, 2012, 315 pp. -
Book review: The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
(Flinders University, 2012)Book review: Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain, W.W.Norton & Company, New York, 2012. -
Contesting Notions of an ‘Education Industry’: Media Commentary on the Transition to a Trade- Orientated International Student Program in Australia
(Flinders University, 2012)In 1985, the Australian government instituted major changes to its international student policy. These changes signalled a shift in International Student Program intent from an emphasis on international enrolments as a ... -
How R2P failed Syria
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Police Persecution of Adelaide’s Homosexual Culture: 1945-1972
(Flinders University, 2012)The flowering of Adelaide’s homosexual culture in the years immediately following World War II and before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the 1970s was accompanied by persecution at the hands of the South Australian ... -
The Political Theory of Federalism
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Sea Change, A pictorial history of the City of Holdfast Bay,
(Flinders University, 2012)Book review: Jim Blake and the Holdfast Bay History Centre, Sea Change, A pictorial history of the City of Holdfast Bay, Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2012. -
Where are you Alex? Lessons to be learnt by Australians
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