Professor Stephen Garton's Books

The Cost of War

War, Return and the Re-Shaping of Australian Culture

By: Professor Stephen Garton

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The Cost of War

War, Return and the Re-Shaping of Australian Culture

By: Professor Stephen Garton

War has shaped Australian society profoundly. When we commemorate the sacrifices of the Anzacs, we rightly celebrate their bravery, but we do not always acknowledge the complex aftermath of combat. In The Cost of War, Stephen Garton traces the experiences of Australia’s veterans, and asks what we can learn from their stories. He considers the long-term effects of war on returned servicemen and women, on their families and communities, and on Australian public life. He describes attempts to respond to the physical and psychological wounds of combat, from the first victims of shellshock during WWI to more recent understandings of post-traumatic stress disorder. And he examines the political and social repercussions of war, including debates over how we should commemorate conflict and how society should respond to the needs of veterans. When the first edition of The Cost of War appeared in 1996, it offered a ground-breaking new perspective on the Anzac experience. In this new edition, Garton again makes a compelling case for a more nuanced understanding of the individual and collective costs of war.

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Sydney University Press

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1743326742

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Fallen Among Reformers

Miles Franklin, Modernity and the New Woman

By: Professor Janet Lee

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Fallen Among Reformers

Miles Franklin, Modernity and the New Woman

By: Professor Janet Lee

‘Fallen Among Reformers’ focuses on Stella Miles Franklin’s New Woman protest literature written during her time in Chicago with the National Women’s Trade Union League (1906-1915). This time away from literary pursuits enriched Franklin’s literary productivity and provided a feminist social justice ethics, which shaped her writing. Close readings of Franklin’s (mostly unpublished) short stories, plays, and novels contextualises them in the personal politics of her everyday life and historicises them in the socio-economic and literary realities of early twentieth-century Australia and United States: themes embedded in broader cultural patterns of socialism, pacifism, and feminism.

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171

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Sydney University Press

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1743326890

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9781743326893

What Were They Thinking?

The Politics of Ideas in Australia

By: James Walter,Professor of Australian Studies James Walter

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What Were They Thinking?

The Politics of Ideas in Australia

By: James Walter,Professor of Australian Studies James Walter

Ideas are at the heart of our politics. They are the means by which people are influenced and mobilised. Australian politics have been shaped by distinctive patterns of political thought from the colonial period to the Rudd government. But how have these patterns arisen? And what have been their effects on shaping what we think is politically po...

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590

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1459604946

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9781459604940

A Decent Provision

Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949

By: Professor John Murphy

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A Decent Provision

Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949

By: Professor John Murphy

A Decent Provision is a narrative history of how and why Australia built a distinctive welfare regime in the period from the 1870s to 1949. At the beginning of this period, the Australian colonies were belligerently insisting they must not have a Poor Law, yet had reproduced many of the systems of charitable provision in Britain. By the start of the twentieth century, a combination of extended suffrage, basic wage regulation and the aged pension had led to a reputation as a 'social laboratory'. And yet half a century later, Australia was a 'welfare laggard' and the Labor Party's welfare state of the mid-1940s was a relatively modest and parsimonious construction. Models of welfare based on social insurance had been vigorously rejected, and the Australian system continued on a path of highly residual, targeted welfare payments. The book explains this curious and halting trajectory, showing how choices made in earlier decades constrained what could be done, and what could be imagined. Based on extensive new research from a variety of primary sources it makes a significant contribution to general historical debates, as well as to the field of comparative social policy.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409482138

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The Search for Knowledge and Understanding

By: Professor Maxwell R. Bennett AO

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The Search for Knowledge and Understanding

By: Professor Maxwell R. Bennett AO

For nearly a millennium, universities have searched forknowledge, understanding and truth. Internationally renowned neuroscientist,Professor Maxwell Bennett, evaluates the work of 20 of the greatest scholars inthe University of Sydney’s history and shows how this university’s search hasbenefitted society in manifold ways. The Search forKnowledge and Understanding demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach, asBennett crafts short but insightful biographies of some of the most significantscholars that have worked at Australia’s oldest university over the past halfcentury, in medicine, the life sciences, the physical sciences and thehumanities and social sciences. Bennet provides a striking account of how this particularscholarly community has flourished by nurturing scholars and allowing them withthe intellectual freedom to pursue their passions. The book clarifies thenotion of understanding as it holds in different disciplines and depicts thebenefit the world of scholarship can have on the wider community.

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1742104509

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The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border

Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe

By: Glenda Sluga,Professor of International History Glenda Sluga

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The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border

Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe

By: Glenda Sluga,Professor of International History Glenda Sluga

Uses the history of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav border to examine how representations of difference have affected the politics of sovereignty during the twentieth century.

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0791448231

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9780791448236

Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 1

Magistrates, Media and the Masses

By: Professor Susan Broomhall,Dr David G Barrie

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Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 1

Magistrates, Media and the Masses

By: Professor Susan Broomhall,Dr David G Barrie

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into summary justice in Scottish towns, c.1800 to 1892. Volume 1, with the subtitle Magistrates, Media and the Masses, provides an institutional, social and cultural history of the establishment, development and practice of police courts. It explores their rise, purpose and internal workings, and how justice was administered and experienced by those who attended them in a variety of roles.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472400666

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International Migration and Global Justice

By: Professor Satvinder S Juss

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International Migration and Global Justice

By: Professor Satvinder S Juss

How should international law approach the critical issue of movement of peoples in the 21st century? This book presents a radical reappraisal of this controversial problem. Challenging present–day ideas of restrictions on freedom of movement and the international structure that controls entry to states, it argues for a new blueprint for international migration policy that eliminates waste, aids both developing and developed societies and brings attendant benefits to voluntary migrants and involuntary refugees alike. In a world of increasing disorder, it is suggested that current policy only adds to international instability and threatens the interests of a functional global community.

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1409493466

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Book's by Professor Stephen Garton

The Cost of War

The Cost of War

Fallen Among Reformers

Fallen Among Reformers

What Were They Thinking?

What Were They Thinking?

A Decent Provision

A Decent Provision

The Search for Knowledge and Understanding

The Search for Knowledge and Understanding

The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border

The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border

Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 1

Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 1

International Migration and Global Justice

International Migration and Global Justice

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