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Author Oliver, Bobbie, 1951-

Title War and peace in Western Australia : the social and political impact of the Great War, 1914-1926 / Bobbie Oliver
Published Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1995

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Description 314 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Foreword -- Dr C.T. Stannage -- Acknowledgments 9 -- Author's notes 11 -- List of illustrations 12 -- Abbreviations 13 -- Introduction -- 15 -- Chapter One -- KEEP THE OLD FLAG FLYING -- Western Australian society before the Great War -- 27 -- Chapter Two -- WAR RAGE -- Concepts of loyalty and disloyalty -- 61 -- Chapter Three -- THE CURSE OF CONSCRIPTION -- The referendum campaigns of 1916 and 1917 -- 90 -- Chapter Four -- GRAINS CRUSHED BY THE MILL -- Problems of repatriating the troops -- 133 -- Chapter Five -- SUFFERING FOR LABOUR -- Overcoming National unionism -- 171 -- Chapter Six -- A PREMIER WITH LAND TO GIVE AWAY -- The National Party and immigration policy -- 205 -- Chapter Seven -- A HANDFUL OF MEN AT FREMANTLE -- The Collier administration and the seamen's strikes -- 238 -- Chapter Eight -- A UNITED FRON AGAINST THE COMMON FOE -- The conservative response -- 269 -- Chapter Nine -- HISTORY FOR POSTERITY -- Constructing a Western Australian past -- 291 -- Bibliography -- 302
Analysis Conscription
History, 1901-1945
Immigration
Political change
Repatriation
Social conditions
State issue
Western Australia
World War 1
Notes CIP confirmed
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 302-314
Subject Labor unions.
Social conflict -- Australia -- Western Australia -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Political aspects -- Australia -- Western Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Australia -- Western Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Western Australia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Western Australia.
SUBJECT Western Australia -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117437 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Western Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089339 -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436 -- 1901-1945
Western Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089339 -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436
Western Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089339 -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 -- 1901-1945
Western Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79089339 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
LC no. 96133986
ISBN 1875560572 (paperback)