The Conscription Conflict and the Great War
While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a split in the Labor Party, and the fall of a government. The defeat of the proposals was hailed by some as a victory of democracy over militarism, mourned by others as an expression of political disloyalty or a symptom of failed self-government. But while the memory of the conscription campaigns once loomed large, it has increasingly been oversh…
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Weitere Autoren: Damousi, Joy (Hrsg.) / Goot, Murray (Hrsg.) / Scalmer, Sean (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-925495-39-3
- EAN: 9781925495393
- Produktnummer: 22525146
- Verlag: Monash University Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H15.6 cm x B23.5 cm x D1.9 cm 336 g
- Abbildungen: b/w illus
- Gewicht: 336
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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