Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923 is the second volume in a pioneering two-volume history of Australian defence and foreign policy. It is based on wide-ranging research in collections of personal and official papers in Australia, Britain, the United States and Canada.

Abbreviations Acknowledgements IntroductionThe onset of war and the Pacific problem 1. Australian leaders and the outbreak of war 2. The imperial cause and aid for the Mother Country 3. The competition for Germany’s Pacific empire 4. ‘No parallel in our history’: the menace of Japan‘Our last man and our last shilling’? Loyalty and conscription 5. ‘The survival of the fittest’: the crusade for the British race 6. The war and the home front: Japan and the defence of Australia 7. ‘The greatest crisis in our history’: the conflict over conscription 8. ‘Loyalty’ and the empire: the nation divided 9. ‘The enemy within the gate’: the attack on national community‘Annexation and indemnity’: Australia's war aims 10. The attack on peacemongers and the appeasement of Japan 11. Manoeuvring for the spoils of war: American consultations and imperial councils 12. ‘The very threshold of the promised land’: joining battle over the armistice terms‘Not a good peace’: the making of the Treaty of Versailles 13. Preparing for the Paris Peace Conference 14. ‘Absolutely unbearable’: the defeat of Hughes’ vision for the post-War worldThe lessons of war, the decline of the empire and ‘détente’ in the Pacific 15. A Pacific ‘foreign office’, the Japanese threat and defence planning 16. The crisis of empire and a Pacific settlementConclusion Bibliography Index

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