Mary Booth's imperial nationalism in the aftermath of the Great War

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAfter the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath
EditorsMichael J. Walsh, Andrekos Varnava
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages95-112
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781003042761
ISBN (Print)9780367187553
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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