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ItemFrom the Modern to the Digital World: New Order, New Emotions(Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)Across six volumes, A Cultural History of the Emotions explores how emotions have changed over the course of human history, but also how emotions have themselves created and changed history. Emotions underpin our everyday lives and shape our mental, physical and social well-being. This collection shows how emotions can offer a unique insight into the historical thought and function of different societies.
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ItemTransforming Australian History: Humanitarianism and Transnationalism(Monash University Publishing, 2019)
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ItemSounds and Silence of War: Dresden and Paris during World War II(Taylor & Francis, 2017)In February 2015, the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Dresden (13-15 February 1945) was commemorated with great solemnity around the world. Public mourning and official recognition marked the commemoration of the event by German and British governments. In deeply moving and emotional scenes of survivors and their families, as well as sombre speeches by political leaders, there was widespread acknowledgement of the brutality and violence unleashed by this event that has since become one of the iconic symbols of the tragic destruction of World War II. 1 Military historians have extensively examined the impact of the bombings in many detailed accounts; the event has been identified as one of the key turning points in the course of the war. It has remained controversial for the bombing of a city, which was aimed specifically at women, children and the elderly rather than military targets. Over time, aspects of the narrative about the event have highlighted the German victims of the war. 2 More broadly, as events in military history have increasingly become the focus of examination by cultural and social historians, war has been re-interpreted as a cultural and not exclusively a military phenomenon. 3 In this methodological shift, the experiences of war by individuals, including how they remembered the bombings, have recently come to frame historical accounts of war. It is within this framework that I seek to analyse the impact and centrality of sound in survivor accounts of the bombings. 4 Based on interviews undertaken in Dresden in 2015, 5 this chapter seeks to examine the enduring nature of sound in the memory of the event and the emotional connection to the bombings through sound. The nexus between memory, sound and war is powerfully illustrated in these interviews, and the intersection of these three concepts informs the discussion of the bombings.
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ItemUniversities and Conscription: The Yes Campaign and the University of Melbourne(Monash University Publishing, 2016)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Greek Civil War, Child Removal and Traumatic Pasts in Australia(Berghahn Books, 2017)
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ItemNo Preview Available“This is against all the British traditions of fair play”: Violence against Greeks on the Australian home-front during the First World War’(Melbourne University Press, 2016)
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ItemWar and Commemoration: 'The Responsibility of Empire'(Oxford University PressOxford, 2011-10-03)Abstract This chapter examines Australians participating in British imperial wars and commemorations. It evaluates Australia’s role in different events from the Sudan expedition in the 1880s to the recent revival of interest in Anzac Day. It suggests that the memory and meaning of warfare in Australia is determined by local insistence on the reciprocal nature of Australia’s obligation to defend the Empire. This chapter also discusses the contribution of the Australian Imperial Force in World War I and the amalgamation of imperial loyalty and Australian achievement in World War II.
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ItemThe Emotions of History(Melbourne University Press, 2004)
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ItemA History of Dreams: Modernity, Masculinity and Inner Life, 1920s and 1930s(Melbourne University Press, 2003)