Record Number |
20318 |
ISBN |
9781742236483 (paperback) |
Location |
994.041 BON |
Author |
Bond, Catherine (author.). |
Title |
Law in war : freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War / Catherine Bond. |
Published |
Sydney, NSW : NewSouth, 2020. |
©2020. |
Collation |
246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
Content types |
text |
still image |
Carrier type |
volume |
General Note |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this book contains images and names of deceased people. |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents Note |
Introduction: Australia's law during the First World War -- Chapter 1 Writing the law: William Hughes and Robert Garran -- Chapter 2. Enforcing the law: Frederick Sickerdick -- Chapter 3. Fighting the law: Franz Wallack -- Chapter 4. Internment by law: Karl Lude -- Chapter 5: Protesting the law: Jennie Baines and Adela Pankhurst -- Chapter 6. Imprisoned and deported by law: Tom Barker -- Chapter 7. Discrimination by law: George Kong Meng, Harry Grant and Douglas Grant -- Chapter 8. Benefiting from the law: George Nicholas and Harry Woolf Shmith -- Conclusion. Australia, war ad law today -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
Summary Note |
During the Great War law was used in everyday life as a tool to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive many Australians of property, liberty and basic human rights. A nation often amends its laws during war, not least to regulate life at home. Yet few historians have considered the impact of the law on Australians during the First World War. In this book, Catherine Bond breathes life into the laws that were central to the way people were managed in Australia 1914-18. Law in war holds those who wrote the laws to account, exploring the sheer breadth and impact of this wartime legal regime, the injustices of which linger to this day. More than anything, it illuminates how ordinary people were caught up in -- and sometimes destroyed by -- these laws created in the name of victory. |
Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia |
Law -- Australia -- History -- 20th century |
Civil rights -- Australia -- History -- 20th century |
Geographic Name |
Australia -- Social conditions -- 20th century |
Australia -- History -- 20th century |