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Student Archival Essays
- Australia and the Interwar Internationalism Movement
- In her study of the League of Nations Union in Britain, Helen McCarthy argues that “the League of Nations inspired a rich and participatory culture of political unrest, popular education and civic ritual." Was the same true in Australia?
- Interwar Internationalism: Refugees
- A Broad Unity for Peace: An historical examination of the International Peace Campaign’s Australian Peace Congress, 16th – 19th September, 1937
- Interwar Feminism in Australia and the League of Nations
- What were the primary factors in the failure of the League of Nations Union in Australia to create what Helen McCarthy terms a ‘rich and participatory culture of political protest, popular education and civic ritual’?
- Analyze how the ‘Myth of Collective Security’ was cultivated and evolved in Britain, compared to Australia by the LNU
- The League in Nations: the Effects of Identity
- Paths to Peace: A comparison of the voluntary peace groups in Britain and Australia
- The League of Nations: Lessons and Legacy
Works Cited on Omeka site
Works Cited Brown, Nicholas. “Enacting the International: R. G. Watt and the League of Nations Union.” In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, edited by Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott. Canberra: ANU E Press 2008. Carr, Andrew. Winning the Peace: Australia’s Campaign to Change the Asia Pacific. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2015. McLeod, Julie. “Educating for ‘world-mindedness’: cosmopolitanism, localism and schooling the adolescent citizen in interwar Australia”. Journal of Educational Administration and History. Vol. 44, Issue 4. (2012): 339-359. Hudson, W. J. Australia and the League of Nations. Paramatta: Sydney University Press, 1980. McCarthy, Helen. “Introduction” in The British People and the League of Nations: Democracy, Citizenship and Internationalism 1918-1945, 1-14. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. Millar, T.B. Australia in Peace and War: External Relations Since 1788. Botany: Maxwell Macmillan Publishing Botany, 1991. Northedge, F.S. The League of Nations: Its Life and Times 1920 – 1946. New York: Leicester University Press, 1986. Osada, Masako. Sanctions and Honorary Whites: Diplomatic Policies and Economic Realities in Relations Between Japan and South Africa. United States of America: Greenwood Press, 2002. Paisley, Fiona. “Citizens of Their World: Australian Feminism and Indigenous Rights in the International Context, 1920s and 1930s”. Feminist Review. No. 58. (1998): 66-84. Pederson, Susan. “Back to the League of Nations”. The American Historical Review. Vol. 112, No. 4. (2007): 1091 – 1117. Summy, Hilary. “Countering War: The role of the League of Nations Union”. Social Alternatives. Vol. 33, No. 4 (2014): 15 – 19. ‘The Covenant of the League of Nations’ in The Aims and Organisation of the League of Nations, 13-18. Geneva: Secretariat of the League of Nations, 1929.