Abstract
During the two aftermath decades following the end of the Great War, Australia came to terms with its wartime loss and evaluated its contribution to the war through grief and memorialisation but also through a sense of national identity that honoured its contribution to this imperial war. The decades that follow show how much Australia has changed in its nationalist aspirations since the nineteenth-century emergence of radical, or ‘bush’, nationalism that sought separation from the British Empire. While radical nationalism represented a minority of Australians, the zeitgeist in the Federation era had been more accommodating of ideas of independence. In 1887, Alfred Deakin coined the term ‘independent Australian Briton’, establishing a distinction between both radical nationalism and craven imperial loyalty, but in the aftermath decades, this independent, middle way became less so – many who shared these dual loyalties nevertheless placed greater emphasis on the ‘Briton’.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath |
Editors | Michael J. Walsh, Andrekos Varnava |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 95-112 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003042761 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780367187553 |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |