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By Sean Brawley,Nick Guoth

ISBN-10: 0415560497

ISBN-13: 9780415560498

ISBN-10: 113894680X

ISBN-13: 9781138946804

This booklet examines Australia’s wearing relationships with the Asian quarter throughout the interwar interval. earlier, Australia’s carrying relationships with the Asian quarter were overlooked through students of Australian and Asian activities background, and the wider box of Australia’s Asian context. focusing on the interval of the Nineteen Twenties and Thirties – whilst wearing relationships among Australia and a few Asian countries emerged in various activities – this booklet demonstrates the intensity of those formerly under-examined connections. The ebook demanding situations, and complicates, the wider historiography of Australia’s Asian context – a historiography that has been strongly motivated by way of the White Australia coverage and the Pacific warfare. Why, for instance, did white Australia so warmly welcome vacationing eastern sportsmen at a time whilst the Pacific zone looked to be inexorably sliding right into a struggle that was once expert through racial antagonisms?


This booklet examines wearing kin among Australia and 7 Asian international locations (China, Japan, India, Netherlands East Indies, Philippines, Malaya and Singapore) and various activities together with rugby, soccer, swimming, hockey, boxing, cricket and tennis.

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