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v, 111 leaves, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates. : illustrations ; 30 cm |
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University of Tasmania Dept. of History thesis |
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University of Tasmania.
Theses
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University of Tasmania. Department of History.
Theses
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| Contents |
Introduction -- ch. 1. The cultural context -- ch. 2. Tasmania's awakening: the first contingent leaves Hobart -- ch. 3. 'The equivocation of the fiends': oppposition to the war and the loyalist response -- ch. 4. 'The pearl of the sourthern seas': island, nation and empire -- ch. 5. 'A natural antipathy'?: perceptions of foreign races -- ch. 6. Rhetoric and reality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
This thesis examines Tasmanian - or more specifically Hobartian - attitudes to colony, nation, empire and race, in the early years of the 20th century - a period which saw the introduction of the 'White Australia' policy in the Commonwealth, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, and the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. It discusses the consciousness of the small community of Hobart during the Boer War being the product of a number of factors which manifested themselves in the different aspects of life and thought discussed. It examines the strength of support for the war, the loyalism towards Britain, and the pride in Tasmanian achievement reflected by the pervasiveness of official culture and Victorian values. It considers the populist qualifications of support for the war and the strength of Australian and Tasmanian sentiment and examines the fullness of public enthusiasm, and the idealistic rhetoric in which the war was seen and looks at the support for the sending of the first contingent, the images in which was war was seen and the modes in which the war was expressed. It discusses the seemingly decadence in public life - mass enthusiasms, gaudy decorations, large triumphal arches, and a love of sensation that pervaded the period and also the repression of the 'disloyal' in relation to the opposition to the war. It considers community and division, and fullness and decay in a colonial culture and aims to present a greater understanding of the complexities of Australian culture--Introduction |
| Notes |
This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honours |
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Thesis B.A. (Hons.) University of Tasmania 1973 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 108-111 |
| Subject |
Australians -- Australia -- Hobart (Tas.) -- Attitudes.
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Nationalism -- Australia -- Tasmania -- History -- 1891-1901
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Hobart (Tas.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82069987 -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 -- 1891-1901
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Tasmania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115474 -- Colonial influence http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005253 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1891-1901
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Tasmania -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004479 -- 1891-1901
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Tasmania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115474 -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 -- 1891-1901
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Transvaal (South Africa) -- History -- War of 1880-1881 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85137096 -- Public opinion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006218
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Academic theses.
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| Author |
University of Tasmania. Department of History.
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