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William Hughes: Australia

RRP: Price: £12.99
Haus Price: £10.00
Friends of Haus: £9.75
Publication Date:
2011-04-25
ISBN:
9781905791903
Format:
Hardback
Territory:
World
Category:
History, Makers of the Modern World, New Titles
Pages:
208
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Makers of the Modern World: The peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
By Carl Bridge
The First World War marked the emergence of the Dominions on the world stage as independent nations, none more so than Australia. The country’s sacrifice at Gallipoli in 1915, and the splendid combat record of Australian troops on the Western Front not only created a national awakening at home, but also put Great Britain in their debt, ensuring them greater influence at the Peace Conferences.
Australia was represented at Versailles by the Prime Minister, the colourful Billy Hughes, whom Woodrow Wilson called ‘a pestiferous varmint’ after their repeated clashes over Australia’s claims to the Pacific Islands its troops had taken from Germany during the War. Hughes was also the most vociferous (though by no means at all the only) opponent of the racial equality clause put forward by Japan. Indeed, it was fear of Japanese expansion that drove Australia’s territorial demands in the Pacific.
Professor Carl Bridge is Head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College, London. He is a regular commentator on British and international television and radio. His publications include (with Bernard Attard) editing Between Empire and Nation: Australian External Relations from Federation to the Second World War (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000) and contributing ‘Anzac Day’ to the Oxford
Companion to Australian Military History (OUP, forthcoming).
Read a great review here from Inside Story.
'Well researched and annotated, with a useful chronology setting Hughes’s life in its historical context, Carl Bridge’s 130-page octavo-size hardback biography of Billy Hughes is a lively portrait of, arguably, the most formidable, most amusing, most Australian of our prime ministers.' - Inside Story
Author Carl Bridge was interviewed on ANZAC Day, Monday 25th April, on Good Morning Wales, BBC Radio Wales and on the Roy Noble Programme on 22nd April.
