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A History in 100 Stories Professor Alistair Thomson Interview World War 1: A History in 100 Stories MONASH UNIVERSITY Professor Alistair Thomson interview: Supplementary reading list These readings will enhance your understanding of Al Thomson’s discussion with Laura James and Rebecca Wheatley. Beaumont, Joan. ‘The Politics of a Divided Society’. Australia’s War, 1914-18, ed. Joan Beaumont. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1995. Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2013. Blackmore, Kate. The Dark Pocket of Time: War, Medicine and the Australian State, 1914-1935. Lythrum Press, Adelaide, 2008. Bollard, Robert. ‘“The Active Chorus”: The Great Strike of 1917 in Victoria’. Labour History 90, May 2006, pp. 77-94. In the Shadow of Gallipoli: The Hidden History of Australia in World War I. Sydney: New South Publishing, 2013. Bongiorno, F. Rae Frances and Bruce Scates (eds.) Labour and the Great War: The Australian Working Class and the Making of Anzac, A Special Issue of Labour History 106, May 2014. Bongiorno, F. and P. Deery. ‘Labour, Loyalty and Peace: Two Anzac Controversies of the 1920s’. Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History 106, May 2014, pp. 205-28. Coward, Dan. ‘Crime and Punishment: The Great Strike in New South Wales, August to October 1917’. Strikes: Studies in Twentieth Century Australian Social History, eds. John Iremonger, John Merritt and Graemem Osborne. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 19173, pp. 51-80. Crotty, Martin & Larsson, Marina (eds). Anzac Legacies: Australians and the Aftermath of War. Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2010. Curren, James and Stuart Ward. The Unknown Nation: Australia after Empire. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1975. Damousi, Joy. ‘Marching to Different Drums: Women’s Mobilizations 1914-39’. Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation, eds. Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans. Sydney: Harcourt Brace, 1992, pp. 350-75. © Monash University FutureLearn 1 Deery, Phillip and Frank Bongiorno. ‘Labour, Loyalty and Peace: Two Anzac Controversies of the 1920s’. Labour and the Great War: The Australian Working Class and the Making of Anzac, eds. Frank Bongiorno, Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates. Sydney: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 2014, pp. 205-28. Dyrenfurth, Nick. Heroes and Villains: The Rise and Fall of the Early Australian Labor Party. Sydney: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011, pp. 158-230. Fitzhardinge, L.F. The Little Digger 1914-1952. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1979. Gregson, Sarah. ‘Defending Internationalism in Interwar Broken Hill.’ Labor History 80, May 2001, pp. 21-40. Inglis, K.S. ‘Conscription in Peace and War, 1911-1945’. Conscription in Australia, eds. Roy Forward and Bob Reece. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1968, pp. 22-65. Lake, Marilyn. A Divided Society: Tasmania During World War I. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1975. Lake, Marilyn. The Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1915–38. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1987. Larsson, Marina. Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2009. Roper, Michael. The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Scates, Bruce. A Place to Remember: A History of the Shrine of Remembrance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Scates, Bruce and Melanie Oppenheimer. ‘“I intend to get justice”: The Moral Economy of Soldier Settlement’ in Labour and the Great War: The Australian Working Class and the Making of Anzac, Frank Bongiorno, Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates eds. Sydney: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 2014, Pp. 229-53. Taksa, Lucy. ‘“Defence not Defiance”: Social Protest and the NSW General Strike of 1917’. Labour History 60, May 1991, pp. 16-33. Thomson, Alistair. Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2013. Thomson, Alistair. ‘Anzac Memories Revisited: Trauma, Memory and Oral History’. Oral History Review, forthcoming 2015. Turner, Ian. Industrial Labour and Politics: The Dynamics of the Labour Movement in Eastern Australia, 1920-1921. Canberra: Australian National University and Press, 1965. FutureLearn 2 .
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