Peter Overlack
Biographic Data
| ID | 5528802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Overlack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Overlack |
| SIGNATURE | OVERLACK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland Brisbane Australia |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-2305-2597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Uncomfortable Issues”
Prime Minister Alfred Deakin invited Field Marshal Viscount Kitchener to visit Australia in 1909 to inspect the overall state of defence preparedness and to advise the best way to provide Australia with more effective land defences. Kitchener's report was submitted in February 1910 and, along with wide‐ranging infrastructure advice, recommended the introduction of compulsory military training. An examination of how Australia's closest colonial ne…
Wedge Politics
This article examines Imperial Germany's East Asian aims within the framework of Weltpolitik (world policy) and political‐diplomatic activity centred around Japan before the First World War. Archival sources clearly record Germany's attempts to neutralise Japan's alliance with Britain to attain its world‐political goals. Attempts to woo Japan even after the outbreak of the First World War aimed to achieve a separate peace arrangement to break Ent…
Imperial Germany's Push to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean
With the extension of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway and Germany's search first for naval coaling and later for radio station locations, the strategic usefulness of footholds in the Persian Gulf region came to the fore. Reliable communication with the African colonies and warships of the East Asian Cruiser Squadron in the expanse of the Indian Ocean was essential. With the allied Ottoman Empire regional expansion aimed to create a wedge to split the …
Discord and deception
The German Naval Intelligence Network in East Asia and Australia before the First World War
Some Australian historians still fail to acknowledge that the young Commonwealth faced an existential threat in the First World War. Such an assessment is untenable in the light of the evidence available in the German archives. The German Naval Intelligence System was central to the economic warfare planning of Germany’s East Asian Cruiser Squadron, which aimed to interdict raw material and food exports from Australia to Britain in the event of w…
German Assessments of British‐Australian Relations, 1901–1914
“The Federal Government does not have the most basic grasp of military matters”. Consul‐General Dr Georg Irmer, November 1909 An examination of how Australia's closest colonial neighbour in 1901 viewed the event of Federation and its implications for British Imperial unity and regional defence contributes much to the continuing debate over the development of an Australian national identity. Germany in its Pacific colonies had a direct strategic a…
Die deutsche Sudsee 1884-1914. Ein Handbuch
Asia in German Naval Planning Before the First World War
‘Only a deficient mind would deny that a fleet ... is for the purpose of completely reshaping international relations in both hemispheres.’Vice-Admiral Curt von Maltzahn
German War Plans in the Pacific, 1900–1914
(1998). German War Plans in the Pacific, 1900–1914. The Historian: Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 579-594
Bless the queen and curse the Colonial Office’
The negative British responses to Australasian colonial requests for the extension of British control in the Pacific, particularly in the period of annexations or attempted annexations by Germany from 1884, show the consistent subordination of Australasian interests to Britain's broader Imperial interests. This only made colonial governments and interest groups more determined to obtain and preserve what they believed was theirs by right. Of equa…
Easter 1916’ in Dublin and the Australian press
The function of commerce warfare in an Anglo‐German conflict to 1914
added an introduction covering a series of events between 1901 and 1914 that led to the establishment of the Royal Australia Navy and which gives the less informed reader a sense of the considerable challenges facing the new navy.The origins of the Great War of 1914-18 are the subject of continuing debate: why did the major Europe powers plunge themselves into a conflict that would produce such unprecedented death and destruction?The maritime asp…
The Neglected War
The Force of Circumstance
German Commerce Warfare Planning for the Australian Station, 1900–1914
German Interest in Australian Defence, 1901–1914
Australian Defence Awareness and German Naval Planning in the Pacific, 1900–1914
Australia has been re-echoing the alarm of Britain at finding herself out-Dreadnoughted by Germany, while Patriots ... have waved cheques at club dinners ... and Lord Mayors have intervened to save Great Britain. Bulletin, 1 April 1909
German Commerce Warfare Planning for the Australian Station, 1900–1914
Australian Defence Awareness and German Naval Planning in the Pacific, 1900–1914
Australia has been re-echoing the alarm of Britain at finding herself out-Dreadnoughted by Germany, while Patriots ... have waved cheques at club dinners ... and Lord Mayors have intervened to save Great Britain. Bulletin, 1 April 1909
Australian Defence Awareness and German Naval Planning in the Pacific, 1900–1914
Australia has been re-echoing the alarm of Britain at finding herself out-Dreadnoughted by Germany, while Patriots ... have waved cheques at club dinners ... and Lord Mayors have intervened to save Great Britain. Bulletin, 1 April 1909
German Interest in Australian Defence, 1901–1914
The Force of Circumstance
German Commerce Warfare Planning for the Australian Station, 1900–1914
Easter 1916’ in Dublin and the Australian press
The function of commerce warfare in an Anglo‐German conflict to 1914
added an introduction covering a series of events between 1901 and 1914 that led to the establishment of the Royal Australia Navy and which gives the less informed reader a sense of the considerable challenges facing the new navy.The origins of the Great War of 1914-18 are the subject of continuing debate: why did the major Europe powers plunge themselves into a conflict that would produce such unprecedented death and destruction?The maritime asp…
The Neglected War
German War Plans in the Pacific, 1900–1914
(1998). German War Plans in the Pacific, 1900–1914. The Historian: Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 579-594
Bless the queen and curse the Colonial Office’
The negative British responses to Australasian colonial requests for the extension of British control in the Pacific, particularly in the period of annexations or attempted annexations by Germany from 1884, show the consistent subordination of Australasian interests to Britain's broader Imperial interests. This only made colonial governments and interest groups more determined to obtain and preserve what they believed was theirs by right. Of equa…
Asia in German Naval Planning Before the First World War
‘Only a deficient mind would deny that a fleet ... is for the purpose of completely reshaping international relations in both hemispheres.’Vice-Admiral Curt von Maltzahn
Die deutsche Sudsee 1884-1914. Ein Handbuch
German Assessments of British‐Australian Relations, 1901–1914
“The Federal Government does not have the most basic grasp of military matters”. Consul‐General Dr Georg Irmer, November 1909 An examination of how Australia's closest colonial neighbour in 1901 viewed the event of Federation and its implications for British Imperial unity and regional defence contributes much to the continuing debate over the development of an Australian national identity. Germany in its Pacific colonies had a direct strategic a…
Discord and deception
The German Naval Intelligence Network in East Asia and Australia before the First World War
Some Australian historians still fail to acknowledge that the young Commonwealth faced an existential threat in the First World War. Such an assessment is untenable in the light of the evidence available in the German archives. The German Naval Intelligence System was central to the economic warfare planning of Germany’s East Asian Cruiser Squadron, which aimed to interdict raw material and food exports from Australia to Britain in the event of w…
Imperial Germany's Push to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean
With the extension of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway and Germany's search first for naval coaling and later for radio station locations, the strategic usefulness of footholds in the Persian Gulf region came to the fore. Reliable communication with the African colonies and warships of the East Asian Cruiser Squadron in the expanse of the Indian Ocean was essential. With the allied Ottoman Empire regional expansion aimed to create a wedge to split the …
Wedge Politics
This article examines Imperial Germany's East Asian aims within the framework of Weltpolitik (world policy) and political‐diplomatic activity centred around Japan before the First World War. Archival sources clearly record Germany's attempts to neutralise Japan's alliance with Britain to attain its world‐political goals. Attempts to woo Japan even after the outbreak of the First World War aimed to achieve a separate peace arrangement to break Ent…
“Uncomfortable Issues”
Prime Minister Alfred Deakin invited Field Marshal Viscount Kitchener to visit Australia in 1909 to inspect the overall state of defence preparedness and to advise the best way to provide Australia with more effective land defences. Kitchener's report was submitted in February 1910 and, along with wide‐ranging infrastructure advice, recommended the introduction of compulsory military training. An examination of how Australia's closest colonial ne…
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