Rethinking the Australian Dilemma: Economics and Foreign Policy, 1942-1957

ISBN-13: 9781433181399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 292 str.

Bill Apter

Opis

This book explains how and why, between 1942 and 1957, Australian governments shifted from their historical relationship with Britain to the beginning of a primary reliance on the United States.

Recenzje

"Bill Apter's book synthesises historical scholarship on Australia's relationship with Australia and the United States and draws on extensive analysis of primary research in Australia, Britain, and the United States to offer a consistent interpretation of the period from 1941 to the late 1950s. It makes a sustained argument about the primacy of economic considerations in Anglo-Australian relations and the decision to remain with or move away from the British Commonwealth, from before the Second World War to the late 1950s. There is a striking parallel to be drawn between the analysis of Australia's relations with a rising United States and declining Britain in the 1940s and 1950s and Australia's current dilemma in choosing between a rising China and declining United States."-Associate Professor David Lee, University of New South Wales

Spis treści

Kinship - Introduction The Anzac Dilemma - The Dependent Dominion: Australia in 1941 - Estrangement - The War Economy - "Australia Looks to America," 1942- 43 - Reconciliation - "Recovering Our Lost Property," 1943- 44 - The Chifley Government: Policy Motivation - Post War Reconstruction and Economic Choices, 1945- 49 - Separation- National Development and the Sterling Bloc, 1951- 52 - Aligning with America, 1952- 57 - Conclusion - Index.

O autorze

Bill Apter is an independent historian with a PhD from the University of NSW. He was born in England but has lived in Australia for half his life. Prior to completing his PhD, he qualified as a chartered accountant and worked in investment banking and the education sector.