Joan Beaumont
Biographic Data
| ID | 3776151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Beaumont |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Beaumont |
| SIGNATURE | BEAUMONT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6013-6773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Imperial heritage in postcolonial settings
Across the Asia Pacific region can be found a distinctive form of material heritage, the cemeteries to the World War II dead of the British Empire. From their original conception in 1917 by the Imperial (from 1960, Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, such cemeteries had multiple meanings: ranging from sites of official and individual remembrance and commemoration to ambiguous interventions by an external power in a local landscape. The decades-l…
From Great Depression to wartime innovation
The mobilisation of Australian industry during World War II was arguably the most important aspect of the national war effort. This occurred only a decade after the Great Depression. How did this transformation occur, and what enabled Australian industry to be so innovative in wartime? This article considers the case study of General Motors Holden (GMH). It argues that entrepreneurial leadership, organisational innovation and systemic change in A…
The limits of humanitarianism
The limits of humanitarianism: The ‘lost’ prisoners of war in the Asia Pacific In homage to Dr. Mukwege Few issues in wartime expose more painfully the tensions between pragmatism and humanitarianism than do prisoners of war. During World War II, some 22,000 Australians were taken prisoner by the Japanese as they conquered South-East Asia in early 1942. Approximately one-third of these Australians would die in captivity, from a mix of malnutritio…
Australian military historiography
Over the past century Australian historiography of war has ranged from strategy, command, battle and defence policy to the social, political, and cultural aspects of conflict. Historians themselves have mirrored this diversity. A gulf has often existed between chauvinistic popular history and the more critical scholarly research; while academic historians have been divided, between operational historians, who have eschewed theory in favour of nar…
The Returned Soldier as a Site of Memory
This article argues that the returned soldier, who has figured prominently in Australian historiography of war, should be understood as a site of collective memory. During the Great Depression, the Scullin government failed to remove preference in employment for returned soldiers, even though the Australian labour movement demanded the restoration of preference for unionists. Moreover, Scullin quarantined key categories of war pensions from the c…
Australia's War, 1939-45
Tables and figures..Maps..Acknowledgments..Abbreviations..Contributors..Chronology of the war..Introduction JOAN BEAUMONT..1 Australia's war: Europe and the Middle East JOAN BEAUMONT..2 Australia's war: Asia and the Pacific JOAN BEAUMONT..3 War and Australian society: KATE DARIAN-SMITH..4 The politics of war DAVID LEE..5 The economy at war MARNIE HAIG-MUIR AND ROY HAY..6 The writers' war DAVID WALKER..7 Australia in the world DAVID LOWE..Select b…
Kate Ariotti, Captive Anzacs
Prisoners of war rarely have a prominent place in national memories of war. There are exceptions, for example the prisoners of the Japanese who worked and died on the Thai–Burma railway in 1942–43
Soldier settlement revisited
The diplomacy of extra-territorial heritage
The global interest in the memory of war in recent decades has brought challenges in managing and conserving extra-territorial war heritage: that is, sites of memory that have a greater significance for people outside the sovereign territory in which the sites physically reside. This article considers this issue in relation to the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, a site of central importance in the Australian national memory of war. The successf…
Emotional stories of war
Review of ' The Home Front: Australia During the First World War ' , Joanne Bach and Jono Lineen, curators, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, From 3 Apri 2015
Australia
Peer-reviewed
Australia's Global Memory Footprint
Shortly after the First World War ended, Australian authorities erected memorials in France and Belgium in memory of the Australian Imperial Force. Decades later, during the so-called 'second generation of memory', Australians again engaged in planting memorials on sites of memory on the Western Front. This article compares the two periods of memorial building, contrasting the sites that were chosen for commemoration and examining what these sugg…
Remembering Australia's First World War
The war memory ‘boom’ is a tsunami that shows no signs of receding. Several more years of First World War remembrance stretch ahead, with countless anniversaries to be commemorated in national and
The Europeans in Australia, Volume 3
The third volume of Alan Atkinson’s The Europeans in Australia covers the half- century from the 1870s to the end of World War I. It is not a traditional political or social history but more a hist
The politics of memory
This symposium examines how the centenary of the First World War has been marked in five countries: Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Given their distinctive national historical experiences and political cultures, the metanarratives of the war in these countries differ; as does the relationship between the state and sub-state actors in memory making. However, in each case the commemorations of the war have been…
Commemoration in Australia
Australia's commemorations of the First World War have thus far been massive at both the government and local levels, reflecting and affirming the dominance of the memory of war and the ANZAC ‘legend’ in the national political culture. The commemorations in 2014–15 triggered some debate about the commodification of the memory of war and the possibility of commemoration fatigue, but the centenary of the key commemorative event, the landing at Gall…
Broken Nation
The Australian experience of war in all its complexity - from the homefront as well as the battlefront - as the men and women who experienced it chose to understand and remember it
Unitedly we have fought’
This article examines what motivated the dominions to make such a sustained and costly contribution to the war effort of the British empire during the First World War. With particular reference to Australia, it argues that imperial loyalty, now discounted as anachronistic, was the dominant ideology. Not only did it inspire the initial generous support for the British war effort but, for many Australians, the empire's cause invested with meaning t…
Contested Trans-national Heritage
In 2004 the Singaporean government demolished Changi prison in the face of considerable opposition from the Australian government because of the prison’s association with the captivity of prisoners of war during the Second World War. In opposing the demolition the Australian government was constrained by the fact that it was challenging the accepted right of a sovereign government to manage national heritage sites; by the lack of a shared history…
Australian Citizenship and the Two World Wars
This article surveys Australian citizenship: its distinctive characteristics in the first half of the twentieth century, and how these were changed by the experience of the two world wars. It argues that Australian citizenship, at the time of Federation, was racially exclusive, imperial, masculine and deeply anchored in the traditional view of the military obligation of the individual to the state. The world wars, especially the war of 1939‐45, e…
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Australian Memory and the US Wartime Alliance
The State of Australian History of War
French Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792-1814
Journal Article French Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792–1814 Get access Jacqueline Beaumont Jacqueline Beaumont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 477, June 2003, Pages 805–806, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/118.477.805 Published: 01 June 2003
Whatever Happened to Patriotic Women, 1914–1918
This article considers why those Australian women who were active in the pro‐war voluntary organisations of World War I have been marginalised in the historiography of the war, despite their high level of activism. The reasons for this neglect may be found in the general discounting of the value of voluntary work, in the adoption by feminist historians of masculinist definitions of the war effort, and, more particularly, in the ideological premis…
The politics of memory
This symposium examines how the centenary of the First World War has been marked in five countries: Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Given their distinctive national historical experiences and political cultures, the metanarratives of the war in these countries differ; as does the relationship between the state and sub-state actors in memory making. However, in each case the commemorations of the war have been…
Commemoration in Australia
Australia's commemorations of the First World War have thus far been massive at both the government and local levels, reflecting and affirming the dominance of the memory of war and the ANZAC ‘legend’ in the national political culture. The commemorations in 2014–15 triggered some debate about the commodification of the memory of war and the possibility of commemoration fatigue, but the centenary of the key commemorative event, the landing at Gall…
Contested Trans-national Heritage
In 2004 the Singaporean government demolished Changi prison in the face of considerable opposition from the Australian government because of the prison’s association with the captivity of prisoners of war during the Second World War. In opposing the demolition the Australian government was constrained by the fact that it was challenging the accepted right of a sovereign government to manage national heritage sites; by the lack of a shared history…
Whatever Happened to Patriotic Women, 1914–1918
This article considers why those Australian women who were active in the pro‐war voluntary organisations of World War I have been marginalised in the historiography of the war, despite their high level of activism. The reasons for this neglect may be found in the general discounting of the value of voluntary work, in the adoption by feminist historians of masculinist definitions of the war effort, and, more particularly, in the ideological premis…
Australia's Global Memory Footprint
Shortly after the First World War ended, Australian authorities erected memorials in France and Belgium in memory of the Australian Imperial Force. Decades later, during the so-called 'second generation of memory', Australians again engaged in planting memorials on sites of memory on the Western Front. This article compares the two periods of memorial building, contrasting the sites that were chosen for commemoration and examining what these sugg…
The diplomacy of extra-territorial heritage
The global interest in the memory of war in recent decades has brought challenges in managing and conserving extra-territorial war heritage: that is, sites of memory that have a greater significance for people outside the sovereign territory in which the sites physically reside. This article considers this issue in relation to the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, a site of central importance in the Australian national memory of war. The successf…
Remembering Australia's First World War
The war memory ‘boom’ is a tsunami that shows no signs of receding. Several more years of First World War remembrance stretch ahead, with countless anniversaries to be commemorated in national and
Unitedly we have fought’
This article examines what motivated the dominions to make such a sustained and costly contribution to the war effort of the British empire during the First World War. With particular reference to Australia, it argues that imperial loyalty, now discounted as anachronistic, was the dominant ideology. Not only did it inspire the initial generous support for the British war effort but, for many Australians, the empire's cause invested with meaning t…
The State of Australian History of War
Starving for Democracy
(1990). Starving for Democracy: Britain's Blockade of and Relief for Occupied Europe, 1939–1945. War & Society: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 57-82
Australian military historiography
Over the past century Australian historiography of war has ranged from strategy, command, battle and defence policy to the social, political, and cultural aspects of conflict. Historians themselves have mirrored this diversity. A gulf has often existed between chauvinistic popular history and the more critical scholarly research; while academic historians have been divided, between operational historians, who have eschewed theory in favour of nar…
The Europeans in Australia, Volume 3
The third volume of Alan Atkinson’s The Europeans in Australia covers the half- century from the 1870s to the end of World War I. It is not a traditional political or social history but more a hist
Australian Memory and the US Wartime Alliance
Starving for Democracy
Rank, Privilege and Prisoners of War
Trade, Strategy, and Foreign Policy in Conflict
The Soviet Mikoyan MiG-15 was an aircraft which lent itself to superlatives. Not only was it the most widely built jet fighter in the world between 15,000 and 18,000 being produced, as compared with about 7,000 North American f-86 Sabres, the most widely used jet fighter in the West1 but its impact on the contemporary strategic situation was dramatic. It appeared for the first time in the skies over North Korea on 1 November 1950 and it caught th…
Great Britain and the Rights of Neutral Countries
Few nations go to war believing their cause to be unjust and Great Britain in September 1939 was no exception to this rule. Even though Britain's war aims often lacked precise definition, being strangely intangible in the early months of the war and later moving uneasily between the incompatible goals of Germany's unconditional surrender and the restoration of a balance of power in Europe, there was nonetheless a recurring theme in public express…
Rank, Privilege and Prisoners of War
Starving for Democracy
(1990). Starving for Democracy: Britain's Blockade of and Relief for Occupied Europe, 1939–1945. War & Society: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 57-82
Starving for Democracy
Humanitarianism and the Emperor's Japan
Perspectives on Australian foreign policy, 1993
Eisenhower and the German POWs
The Comfort Women
War and Peace in Western Australia
Paul Hasluck as minister for external affairs
Whatever Happened to Patriotic Women, 1914–1918
This article considers why those Australian women who were active in the pro‐war voluntary organisations of World War I have been marginalised in the historiography of the war, despite their high level of activism. The reasons for this neglect may be found in the general discounting of the value of voluntary work, in the adoption by feminist historians of masculinist definitions of the war effort, and, more particularly, in the ideological premis…
Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power Julia Bush
Journal Article Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power Julia Bush Get access Jacqueline Beaumont Jacqueline Beaumont Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1357–1358, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1357 Published: 01 November 2000
The State of Australian History of War
French Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792-1814
Journal Article French Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792–1814 Get access Jacqueline Beaumont Jacqueline Beaumont Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 477, June 2003, Pages 805–806, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/118.477.805 Published: 01 June 2003
Australian Memory and the US Wartime Alliance
Books
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper. A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper. New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99 paper. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne. E…
Australian Citizenship and the Two World Wars
This article surveys Australian citizenship: its distinctive characteristics in the first half of the twentieth century, and how these were changed by the experience of the two world wars. It argues that Australian citizenship, at the time of Federation, was racially exclusive, imperial, masculine and deeply anchored in the traditional view of the military obligation of the individual to the state. The world wars, especially the war of 1939‐45, e…
Contested Trans-national Heritage
In 2004 the Singaporean government demolished Changi prison in the face of considerable opposition from the Australian government because of the prison’s association with the captivity of prisoners of war during the Second World War. In opposing the demolition the Australian government was constrained by the fact that it was challenging the accepted right of a sovereign government to manage national heritage sites; by the lack of a shared history…
Broken Nation
The Australian experience of war in all its complexity - from the homefront as well as the battlefront - as the men and women who experienced it chose to understand and remember it
Unitedly we have fought’
This article examines what motivated the dominions to make such a sustained and costly contribution to the war effort of the British empire during the First World War. With particular reference to Australia, it argues that imperial loyalty, now discounted as anachronistic, was the dominant ideology. Not only did it inspire the initial generous support for the British war effort but, for many Australians, the empire's cause invested with meaning t…
Emotional stories of war
Review of ' The Home Front: Australia During the First World War ' , Joanne Bach and Jono Lineen, curators, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, From 3 Apri 2015
Australia
Peer-reviewed
Australia's Global Memory Footprint
Shortly after the First World War ended, Australian authorities erected memorials in France and Belgium in memory of the Australian Imperial Force. Decades later, during the so-called 'second generation of memory', Australians again engaged in planting memorials on sites of memory on the Western Front. This article compares the two periods of memorial building, contrasting the sites that were chosen for commemoration and examining what these sugg…
Remembering Australia's First World War
The war memory ‘boom’ is a tsunami that shows no signs of receding. Several more years of First World War remembrance stretch ahead, with countless anniversaries to be commemorated in national and
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