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(Text)
Australia declared war on the German Empire in August 1914 not only because as a Dominion within the British Empire it was considered a matter of course. In fact the Australian Government had made up its own mind about the nature of the German threat to national security. There were a number of influential writers at the time who contributed to the formation of a distinct Australian image of German militarism. Foremost among these was Professor George Arnold Wood, the first Challis Professor of History in Sydney, 1891-1928. He had analysed the nature of Prussian-German political culture from the stand point of a radical English-trained liberal and projected an accurate image of the enemy. Basic to this was Wood's carefully drawn distinction between the Germany of true culture and humanity on the one hand and the "barbarous feudal aristocracy" of Prussia on the other which had determined German political culture since Bismarck had founded the Reich under Prussia in 1871.
(Table of content)
Contents: Wood's formation as an historian - Seven of Wood's major statements about political culture and the Great War - Wood's Thesis of "the two Germanies" - Anti-Prussianism and Australian internment policy during the Great War.
(Review)
"In addition to the texts by Wood, the book also includes annotations and extensive commentary by Moses, who is particularly well-equipped for this work - not only as one of Autralias's foremonst scholars of German history, but also as someone with considerable experience and understanding of Australian academic life, and with a clear concern for the moral and ethical dimensions of the historian's profession." (Andrew G. Bonnell, Teaching History)
"Die Ideen Woods sind der Aufhänger für das Anliegen des Verfassers, ein in Deutschland bisher übersehenes und in Australien kaum genauer untersuchtes Gebiet in der Geschichte beider Länder herauszuarbeiten, das beide so verband, wie es sie trennte. Das ist ihm vollauf gelungen." (Johannes H. Voigt, Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch)
(Author portrait)
The Author: John Anthony Moses was born in 1930 in Atherton, North Queensland, Australia. He was educated at All Souls' School, Charters Towers, the Brisbane Technical College (Radio Engineering), St. Francis' Theological College (Anglican Theology), the Universities of Queensland, Munich and Erlangen. He took his doctorate at the latter University under the late Professor Dr. Waledmar Besson in 1965. Since 1966 he has taught German History at the University of Queensland. He is currently Associate Professor and as well an auxiliary priest of the Diocese of Brisbane.
