The Navy and the Nation: The influence of the Navy on modern AustraliaDavid Stevens, John Reeve Allen & Unwin, 2005 M01 1 - 464 páginas Australia has often been described as a nation shaped by war. From an early age, every Australian is taught the significance of Gallipoli and the Anzac legend. This, however, is but one dimension of the military's impact on our nation's coming of age. Australia, after all, is an island. It was the Navy which explored and founded European Australia, and it is the Navy which has ever since been critical to our national security. With its ancestry in the Royal Navy and the former colony-based navies, the Australian Navy was established in 1901. Since that time it has helped Australia enter the international community as a modern, self-reliant nation and has been indispensable in protecting Australia's sovereignty and national interests. Despite the Navy being one of Australia's oldest and most important institutions, the links between nation-building and the Navy have never before received detailed study. Bringing together scholars from Australia and overseas, The Navy and the Nation examines the extent of the Navy's contribution to our national development. It shows, too, how the Navy has played a vital role in defining our independent national identity. A former naval officer, David Stevens is a graduate of the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University, and is currently Director of Strategic and Historical Studies within the Sea Power Centre - Australia. He has written and edited several books on maritime strategy and naval history. John Reeve is Senior Lecturer and Osborne Fellow in Naval History at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He has written extensively on early modern and contemporary diplomatic and strategic issues. |
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Part I Concepts and contexts | 9 |
Part II The Navy and the nation | 67 |
Part III Ships industry and technology for Australia | 163 |
Part IV Naval people and the nation | 269 |
Notes | 385 |
Index | 431 |
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Página 84 - We got into Port Jackson early in the afternoon, and had the satisfaction of finding the finest harbour in the world, in which a thousand sail of the line may ride in the most perfect security.
Página 84 - The different coves were examined with all possible expedition. I fixed on the one that had the best spring of water, and in which the ships can anchor so close to the shore that at a very small expense quays may be made at which the largest ships may unload. " This cove, which I honoured with the name of Sydney, is about a quarter of a mile across at the entrance, and half a mile in length.
Página 24 - We are people of the sea. We are a small island. Europe is at our doors, for good or for ill. The lines of our Empire have been thrown all over the face of the earth. We have to import our food. A month's blockade, effectively carried out, would starve us all.
Página 78 - The sick have increased since our landing to such a degree, that a spot for a general hospital has been marked out, and artificers already employed on it. A proper spot, contiguous to the hospital, has been chosen to raise such vegetables as can be produced at this season of the year, and where a permanent garden for the use of the hospital is to be established.
Página 111 - It is but a few days ago that I rejoiced at having got without the Reef; but that joy was nothing when Compared to what I now felt at being safe at an Anchor within it.
Página 370 - FOR the increase of shipping and encouragement of the navigation of this nation, wherein, under the good providence and protection of God, the wealth, safety, and strength of this kingdom is so much concerned...
Página 169 - It means eventually Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Cape (that is, South Africa), and India running a complete Navy\ We manage the job in Europe. They'll manage it against the Yankees, Japs, and Chinese, as occasion requires out there!
Página 30 - It is permissible, nay, incumbent, to resist it; to insist, in the general interest, by force if need be, that China remain open to action by European and American processes of life and thought.
Página 123 - When we look at ideas about national identity, we need to ask, not whether they are true or false, but what their function is, whose creation they are, and whose interests they serve.
Página 88 - The place which New South Wales holds on our globe might give it a very commanding influence in the policy of Europe. If a colony from Britain was established in that large tract of country, and if we were at war with Holland or Spain, we might very powerfully annoy either state from our new settlement. We might, with a safe and expeditious voyage, make naval incursions on Java and the other Dutch settlements ; and...