The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History
Title | The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Dennis |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 728 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
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This is a comprehensive guide to Australian military history, broadly conceived within a critical and analytical framework. It contains 800 entries. The editors have sought a balance between various types of entries. Their interpretation of 'military history' is inclusive, extending beyondstandard categories such as battles, campaigns, biographies and weapons, and encompassing entries on the structures of various parts of the defence force organization and their evolution, military language and customs, literature dealing with military themes and treaties, alliances and acts ofparliament that have had a significant impact on the military. Biographical entries vary from long analytical essays on figures such as Thomas Blamey and C.E.W. Bean to much shorter entries on figures of less importance. Not every Chief of General Staff or RAN and RAAF equivalent has an entry: as the editors say, some were undistinguished. All office holdersof significant rank within the three services are listed in an appendix. No attempt is made to duplicate the Australian Dictionary of Biography; nor, except in two instances, have the editors commissioned articles on specific individuals from the historians who wrote those particular entries forADB. The editors' focus is different, combining essential biographical facts with more commentary and analysis. Battles are grouped into overall campaigns, thus providing a more integrated approach enabling greater analysis of broader issues. The Companion offers essential technical details on every significant weapons system employed in the three services since their inception, together with comments thathelp place those systems in an operational and sometimes political context. In addition, there are several longer articles on key aspects of military history and culture. The entry on conscription, while not neglecting past controversies, explains the mechanics of the various methods. There is anabsorbing entry on the ways in which animals have been used by the military. Aboriginal resistance to white invasion is covered in a long entry, as is Aboriginal service in the armed forces. There are also several articles on military influences in Australian culture - war films, literature, art,popular culture. Complete with 100 photographs and 32 maps, the result is a comprehensive work of reference, analysis and interest that will come to be regarded as the authoritative work in the field.
The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History
Title | The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Australia |
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This text provides a comprehensive guide to Australian military history, written by the country's leading military historians. It includes entries on key soldiers, politicians and writers, as well as information on major campaigns, weapons and themes.
A Military History of Australia
Title | A Military History of Australia PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Grey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1999-06-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521644839 |
An expanded edition of one of the most acclaimed accounts of Australian military history.
The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History
Title | The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History PDF eBook |
Author | Ian C. McGibbon |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 688 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
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"This book is the most comprehensive guide yet to New Zealand's rich and varied military history. It is supplemented with 150 photographs and more than forty maps, as well as lists of important office-holders. It is a must for students, specialists, and anyone interested in New Zealand's military history and the effect of war on its society."--BOOK JACKET.
The Oxford companion to Australian history
Title | The Oxford companion to Australian history PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Davison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 722 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Australia |
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"The Oxford Companion to Australian History draws on the latest scholarship and covers people, institutions, and events that have shaped Australian society, politics and culture. There are entries on politicians, colonisers, visionaries, newspaper barons, industrialists, explorers, writers, artists, and scientists. There are numerous extended essays on key facets of the nation's life--political, social, cultural, scientific, military, and economic. Readers will find incisive entries on matters such as, art, capital punishment, gambling, language, literature, military history, republicanism, and reconciliation."--Publisher's description.
The Oxford Handbook of International Relations
Title | The Oxford Handbook of International Relations PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Reus-Smit |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 792 |
Release | 2010-07-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0191003255 |
The Oxford Handbook of International Relations offers the most authoritative and comprehensive overview to date of the field of international relations. Arguably the most impressive collection of international relations scholars ever brought together within one volume, the Handbook debates the nature of the field itself, critically engages with the major theories, surveys a wide spectrum of methods, addresses the relationship between scholarship and policy making, and examines the field's relation with cognate disciplines. The Handbook takes as its central themes the interaction between empirical and normative inquiry that permeates all theorizing in the field and the way in which contending approaches have shaped one another. In doing so, the Handbook provides an authoritative and critical introduction to the subject and establishes a sense of the field as a dynamic realm of argument and inquiry. The Oxford Handbook of International Relations will be essential reading for all of those interested in the advanced study of global politics and international affairs.
The Australian Army
Title | The Australian Army PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Grey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN | 9780195555400 |
The Australian Army is the oldest of the three armed services, and is one of the oldest continuous national organisations in the country.