Hank Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hank Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hank |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Kokoda
From the release of Damien Parer's Kokoda Frontline in 1942, there have been several high quality documentary films and many popular and scholarly histories on the battles on the Kokoda Track, but until Alister Grierson's Kokoda of 2006 there was no feature film. Initially well received by an Australian public, Kokoda raises several important questions for historians. Makers of films on historical events properly draw on contemporary images: they…
The Consolation Unit
From late 1942, Australians knew that the Japanese had shipped women to Rabaul, where they worked in brothels catering for Japanese troops. Japanese captured on the Kokoda Track and elsewhere described the brothels, and New Guineans and who had been in Rabaul talked about them. Australian military and civilian prisoners saw the brothels, and a few of those Australians observed them over a long period. Japanese who served in Rabaul have left remin…
Kokoda
Papua New Guinea has had great difficulty distilling the complex experiences of World War II into national history, but at the same time Australians have elevated and celebrated the significance of Kokoda. The 1942 battles on the Kokoda Track have been the subject of major Australian books and a feature film, and the numbers of trekkers on the Track have increased sharply. But in Papua New Guinea, Kokoda has been narrowing to an association with …
The New Guinea Comfort Women, Japan and the Australian Connection
Japan's Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, determined to promote Japan as (in the words of his book) a "beautiful country," whose school students will be taught to love it and whose citizens will be offered a version of its history in which they can take pride, finds himself in the incongruous position of sinking deeper and deeper into a shameful mire over his refusal to accept state responsibility for the mass mobilization of women for the sexual slave …
Kokoda
From this issue, 'Pacific Currents' replaces the 'Current Developments in the Pacific' and 'Political Chronicles' sections in the Journal. While we will continue to welcome submissions on contemporary issues in the Pacific Islands -- on elections and political developments, for instance, or economic and demographic trends -- we will seek to encourage the publication of material that is more wide-ranging and reflective, that tackles a topical issu…
Liberation
Crises of God and man
Gallipoli, Kokoda and the making of national identity
Kuru
From 1947 Australian administration patrols entered the country of the Fore in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. By 195 7 Okapa was connected by road to the outside world and the first coffee trees were being harvested. Early Government officers reported a trembling, degenerative disease called kuru by the Fore. In 1957 Vin Zigas and Carleton Gajdusek made the first scientific descriptions of the course of kuru. The question of who should cond…
The return to Rabaul 1945∗
In January 1942 over 1,500 Australian troops and civilians were captured by the Japanese in Rabaul and on New Ireland and New Britain. Through much of the war the Allies had either coastwatchers or soldiers on New Britain, but remained uncertain what had happened to those captured. Anxious to return to Rabaul after the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the Australians found few survivors. Some officers and nurses had been shipped to Japan, and t…
The troops, the town and the battle
(1992). The troops, the town and the battle: Rabaul 1942. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 198-216
Blood oath
Papua new guinea (November 1990 ‐ October 1991)
Briefly noted
David Chaffetz, A Journey Through Afghanistan. A Memorial, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1981, reprint 1984. ix, 258 pp. Glossary. Paper: $2.50. Leon Salim, Prisoners at Kota Cane, Translation Series Publication No. 66, Cornell Modern Indonesian Project, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1986. v, 112 pp. Preface, introduction, map. Paper: US$9
The Nips are Going for the Parker’
(1985). ‘The Nips are Going for the Parker’: The Prisoners Face Freedom. War & Society: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 127-143
Melanesia
Papua New Guinea
Hold the good name of the soldier
(1980). Hold the good name of the soldier. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 202-216
The swinging index
From Kanaka to Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel
Black White & Gold
Miners, Labourers and Officials on the Lakekamu Goldfield of Papua
Before 1910 more white men came to Papua to look for gold than any other material or spiritual reward.1 Gold was the reason most of them were prepared to leave the beaches, more Papuans had worked for miners than any other employers, and the miners and their labourers were in advance of representatives of Western governments and Christian missions as the bearers of a foreign culture to many peoples in Papua. After the importance of the alluvial m…
The missionaries and the aborigines in the Port Phillip district
(1965). The missionaries and the aborigines in the Port Phillip district. Historical Studies: Australia and New Zealand: Vol. 12, No. 45, pp. 57-67
Liberation
Kuru
From 1947 Australian administration patrols entered the country of the Fore in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. By 195 7 Okapa was connected by road to the outside world and the first coffee trees were being harvested. Early Government officers reported a trembling, degenerative disease called kuru by the Fore. In 1957 Vin Zigas and Carleton Gajdusek made the first scientific descriptions of the course of kuru. The question of who should cond…
Gallipoli, Kokoda and the making of national identity
Kokoda
Papua New Guinea has had great difficulty distilling the complex experiences of World War II into national history, but at the same time Australians have elevated and celebrated the significance of Kokoda. The 1942 battles on the Kokoda Track have been the subject of major Australian books and a feature film, and the numbers of trekkers on the Track have increased sharply. But in Papua New Guinea, Kokoda has been narrowing to an association with …
The swinging index
From Kanaka to Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel
Kokoda
From this issue, 'Pacific Currents' replaces the 'Current Developments in the Pacific' and 'Political Chronicles' sections in the Journal. While we will continue to welcome submissions on contemporary issues in the Pacific Islands -- on elections and political developments, for instance, or economic and demographic trends -- we will seek to encourage the publication of material that is more wide-ranging and reflective, that tackles a topical issu…
Kokoda
From the release of Damien Parer's Kokoda Frontline in 1942, there have been several high quality documentary films and many popular and scholarly histories on the battles on the Kokoda Track, but until Alister Grierson's Kokoda of 2006 there was no feature film. Initially well received by an Australian public, Kokoda raises several important questions for historians. Makers of films on historical events properly draw on contemporary images: they…
The Nips are Going for the Parker’
(1985). ‘The Nips are Going for the Parker’: The Prisoners Face Freedom. War & Society: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 127-143
Hold the good name of the soldier
(1980). Hold the good name of the soldier. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 202-216
The missionaries and the aborigines in the Port Phillip district
(1965). The missionaries and the aborigines in the Port Phillip district. Historical Studies: Australia and New Zealand: Vol. 12, No. 45, pp. 57-67
Miners, Labourers and Officials on the Lakekamu Goldfield of Papua
Before 1910 more white men came to Papua to look for gold than any other material or spiritual reward.1 Gold was the reason most of them were prepared to leave the beaches, more Papuans had worked for miners than any other employers, and the miners and their labourers were in advance of representatives of Western governments and Christian missions as the bearers of a foreign culture to many peoples in Papua. After the importance of the alluvial m…
Black White & Gold
The swinging index
From Kanaka to Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel
Hold the good name of the soldier
(1980). Hold the good name of the soldier. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 202-216
Papua New Guinea
The Nips are Going for the Parker’
(1985). ‘The Nips are Going for the Parker’: The Prisoners Face Freedom. War & Society: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 127-143
Melanesia
Briefly noted
David Chaffetz, A Journey Through Afghanistan. A Memorial, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1981, reprint 1984. ix, 258 pp. Glossary. Paper: $2.50. Leon Salim, Prisoners at Kota Cane, Translation Series Publication No. 66, Cornell Modern Indonesian Project, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1986. v, 112 pp. Preface, introduction, map. Paper: US$9
Blood oath
Papua new guinea (November 1990 ‐ October 1991)
The troops, the town and the battle
(1992). The troops, the town and the battle: Rabaul 1942. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 198-216
The return to Rabaul 1945∗
In January 1942 over 1,500 Australian troops and civilians were captured by the Japanese in Rabaul and on New Ireland and New Britain. Through much of the war the Allies had either coastwatchers or soldiers on New Britain, but remained uncertain what had happened to those captured. Anxious to return to Rabaul after the Japanese surrender in August 1945, the Australians found few survivors. Some officers and nurses had been shipped to Japan, and t…
Kuru
From 1947 Australian administration patrols entered the country of the Fore in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. By 195 7 Okapa was connected by road to the outside world and the first coffee trees were being harvested. Early Government officers reported a trembling, degenerative disease called kuru by the Fore. In 1957 Vin Zigas and Carleton Gajdusek made the first scientific descriptions of the course of kuru. The question of who should cond…
Gallipoli, Kokoda and the making of national identity
Crises of God and man
Liberation
Kokoda
From this issue, 'Pacific Currents' replaces the 'Current Developments in the Pacific' and 'Political Chronicles' sections in the Journal. While we will continue to welcome submissions on contemporary issues in the Pacific Islands -- on elections and political developments, for instance, or economic and demographic trends -- we will seek to encourage the publication of material that is more wide-ranging and reflective, that tackles a topical issu…
Kokoda
Papua New Guinea has had great difficulty distilling the complex experiences of World War II into national history, but at the same time Australians have elevated and celebrated the significance of Kokoda. The 1942 battles on the Kokoda Track have been the subject of major Australian books and a feature film, and the numbers of trekkers on the Track have increased sharply. But in Papua New Guinea, Kokoda has been narrowing to an association with …
The New Guinea Comfort Women, Japan and the Australian Connection
Japan's Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, determined to promote Japan as (in the words of his book) a "beautiful country," whose school students will be taught to love it and whose citizens will be offered a version of its history in which they can take pride, finds himself in the incongruous position of sinking deeper and deeper into a shameful mire over his refusal to accept state responsibility for the mass mobilization of women for the sexual slave …
The Consolation Unit
From late 1942, Australians knew that the Japanese had shipped women to Rabaul, where they worked in brothels catering for Japanese troops. Japanese captured on the Kokoda Track and elsewhere described the brothels, and New Guineans and who had been in Rabaul talked about them. Australian military and civilian prisoners saw the brothels, and a few of those Australians observed them over a long period. Japanese who served in Rabaul have left remin…
Kokoda
From the release of Damien Parer's Kokoda Frontline in 1942, there have been several high quality documentary films and many popular and scholarly histories on the battles on the Kokoda Track, but until Alister Grierson's Kokoda of 2006 there was no feature film. Initially well received by an Australian public, Kokoda raises several important questions for historians. Makers of films on historical events properly draw on contemporary images: they…
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