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