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Australia and the World

Australia and the World

A Festschrift for Neville Meaney

Joan Beaumont, Matthew Jordan, Dennis Richardson

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Format: paperback
350 pages
ISBN: 9781743320006
Publication: 20 May 2013
Publisher: 色界吧

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Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application.

The contributors to the volume 鈥� historians, practitioners of foreign relations and political commentators, many of whom were taught by Meaney at the University of Sydney over the years 鈥� focus especially on the interaction between geopolitics, culture and ideology in shaping Australian and American approaches to the world.

Individual chapters examine a number of major themes informing Neville Meaney's work, including the sources and nature of Australia's British identity; the hapless, if dedicated, efforts of Australian politicians, public servants and intellectuals to reconcile this intense cultural identity with Australia's strategic anxieties in the Asia-Pacific region; and the sense of trauma created when the myth of 鈥楤ritishness鈥� collapsed under the weight of new historical circumstances in the 1960s. They survey relations between Australia and the United States in the years after World War Two. Finally, they assess the US perceptions of itself as an 鈥榚xceptional鈥� nation with a mission to spread democracy and liberty to the wider world and the way in which this self-perception has influenced its behaviour in international affairs.


Tags: 20th century, 21st century, Asia Pacific region, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history, Australia, Australia & New Zealand, Australian & Oceanian, c 1900 to c 1999, c 2000 to c 2100, culture, Dennis Richardson, English, foreign relations history, General, HISTORY, international, International relations, Joan Beaumont, Matthew Jordan, national identity, POLITICAL SCIENCE, politics, Politics and society, Professional and scholarly, society, 色界吧, World

Joan Beaumont is a professor of history in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.

Matthew Jordan works as a historian in the Historical Publications and Information section of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Dennis Richardson is the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Dennis Richardson

Australia and the world: Neville Meaney and the making of foreign relations history in Australia
1. Not the Cinderella it once seemed: the historiography of Australian foreign policy
Joan Beaumont
2. Australia and Japan in focus: from image to comparative history
Hugh Clarke
3. Pondering Australia鈥檚 world: Neville Meaney on the role of culture, ideology and geopolitics in American and Australian foreign policy history
Matthew Jordan

Race, nationalism and White Australia
4. The Chinese immigration crisis of 1888 and the coming of White Australia
Matthew Jordan
5. 鈥�