Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands since the First World War

William S. Livingston, Wm. Roger Louis

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780292729346
  9780292703445
• eBook ISBN:
  9781477301241
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Australian & Oceanian History
• Index: History

Three forces—dwindling British power, rising American influence, and nationalism in a variety of forms—have transformed Australia, New Zealand, and the adjacent islands since 1919. In this volume, some of the most distinguished scholars of the Pacific region assess these significant historical changes.

These essays deal with international relations, politics, changing social structures, and literature since World War I. The themes of the volume as a whole are social and humanistic; they concern the evolution of both a regional identity and separate national identities in the Southwest Pacific. The unique areal and thematic concentration of this book makes it essential reading for all those interested in the history, politics, and culture of the Pacific.

Table of contents

• Cover 
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents 
• Preface
• Introduction
• The Changing Perspective on Australian History
• The Changing Perspective on New Zealand History
• Australian-New Zealand Relations
• New Zealand Foreign Policy
• Australian Foreign Policy
• The Australian Commonwealth and the Australian States
• Provincial to International: Southwest Pacific Literature in English since the 1920s
• The Australian Aborigines
• New Zealand: Maori and Pakeha
• Movement and Change in the Pacific Islands
• The Southwest Pacific since the First World War: A Synthesis
• The Contributors
• Index