Red Coat Dreaming: How Colonial Australia Embraced The British Army

Craig Wilcox
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AUST MILITARY In Red Coat Dreaming art, artefacts and life stories combine to evoke a period when the British Army was also Australia’s army. From the first British settlement to the First World War, some Australians were indifferent to and even disdainful of the military force that fomented the Rum Rebellion and shot down gold miners at Eureka. Yet many were proud of the British Army’s achievements on battlefields far from Australia. Hundreds of Australians enlisted in the army or married its officers and rankers; thousands had served in it before settling in Australia, and hundreds of thousands barracked when the army went to war. Red Coat Dreaming challenges our understanding of Australia’s military history and the primacy of the Anzac legend. It shows how few Australians were immune to the allure and historic associations of the red coat, the British Army’s sartorial signature, and leaves readers thinking differently about Australia’s identity and experience of war.
xvii, 179 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-142) and index. #120522
Great Britain Army — Colonial forces — Australia. | Great Britain Army — History. | Armies — Australia. | Patriotism — Australia. | Great Britain — Army — Colonial forces — Australia. | Great Britain — Army — History. | Australia — Colonial influence. | Australia — History, Military.

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AuthorCraig Wilcox
Number of pagesxvii, 179 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.
PublisherCambridge University Press
Year Published2009
Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

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