Class Year
2022
Document Type
Review
Date of Creation
Spring 2021
Department 1
History
Abstract
This paper is structured as a review of Liz Reed's 2004 study Bigger Than Gallipoli: War, History, and Memory in Australia, an analysis of the Australian government's public commemoration of the Second World War from 1994-95. Critiquing certain aspects of Reed's methodology, I bring in some of Jill Ker Conway's insights on Australian identity from her 1989 memoir The Road from Coorain, as well as other scholars of historical memory and political theory. While Reed makes some important insights on the merits and deficiencies of political nostalgia, I argue that her book represents a missed opportunity overall.
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Recommended Citation
Lough, Christopher T., "Memory, Identity, and World II in Australia: Liz Reed's "Bigger Than Gallipoli"" (2021). Student Publications. 928.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/928
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Comments
Written for HIST 228: Modern Australia