This unit analyses Australia's foreign wars and their domestic contexts. It deals with Australia's part in the New Zealand Maori wars, the Sudan conflict, the Boer War, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf wars. It raises questions about the place of wars in national histories, myth and memory. It analyses representations of wars in media such as film and fiction, memory and memorial, art and architecture, and in ceremony and commemoration. It discusses the relationship between representations and the reality of war and the histories of Australia's wars written by Australian war historians. -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Charles Fox
Prerequisites: a Level 2 History unit
