Peacemongers, Australian Resistance to War and Military Conscription, 1885 to 1945

Bobbie Oliver (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

238 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-1207-4 (ISBN)

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War has been a dominant theme in Australian history, but there is an alternative story. In every conflict, from the Sudan campaign of 1885 to Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War (1966–73), there have been war resisters and conscientious objectors to military service and conscription. Peacemongers tells their story. War resisters endured physical violence, prison, financial hardship, and emotional trauma. Many had a strong Christian faith that forbade killing fellow humans, while others objected to coercion and believed in freedom of choice. Originally, a small minority opposed conscription and war. This changed with the mass protests against the Vietnam War. Thousands took to the streets. Those who refused to enlist faced prison terms of up to two years but still they stood firm. Despite being branded as cowards, they showed that it took a special type of courage to resist war.

Associate Professor Bobbie Oliver is an Honorary Research Fellow in Humanities at The University of Western Australia and Director of the Centre for Western Australian History. Her research interests are Australian labour history and the history of the peace movement. Major publications include Unity is Strength, a history of the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia (2003), and The Workshops (2006), a co-edited history of the railway workshops, winner of the 2006 Premier's Prize for Western Australian History. Her most recent book is Hell No! We won't go! Resistance to Conscription in Postwar Australia (2022).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-0364-1207-5 / 1036412075
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-1207-4 / 9781036412074
Zustand	Neuware