Documents on Australian international affairs 1901-1918 / edited by Gordon Greenwood and Charles Grimshaw with the assistance of Margaret Willis
Published
West Melbourne, Vic. : Thomas Nelson (Australia) in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1977
Documents on Australian International Affairs 1901-1918 fills a significant gap. This important voulme provides for the first time a comprehensive and authoriatative range of material to permit an appreciation of how Australia as a nation came to promote and defend its intrests in the world at large. The volume covers the formative years, from Federation to the end of the First World War, when Australia first ventured into the field of international relations. For Australia it was a matter of balancing its desires to make its own way as a new nation with imporatnt and powerful Empire interests. The emphasis in the selection is on official documents. But the editors believe that much non-official material can also enlarge an understanding of how and why policy evolved. Many years of careful research have produced a wide-ranging coverage. It includes material from govenrmental archives, political parties, trade unions, intreset and pressure groups, newspapers, other contemporary comment and statistics. The selection is reinforced by an extansive commentary. (Inside cover)
Analysis
Australia - Foreign relations - History - Sources
Australia. Foreign relations, 1901-1918. Readings from contemporary sources