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dc.contributor.authorFox, Karen
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T16:17:58Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T16:17:58Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20220203_9781760465018_10
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52654
dc.description.abstractThe first detailed history of imperial and national honours in Australia, Honouring a Nation tells the story of the honours system's transformation from instrument of imperial unity to national institution. From the extension of British honours to colonial Australasia in the nineteenth century, through to Tony Abbott’s revival of knighthoods in the twenty-first, this book explains how the system has worked, traces the arguments of its supporters and critics, and looks both at those who received awards and those who declined them. Honouring a Nation brings to life a long history of debate over honours, including wrangles over State rights, gender imbalances in honours lists, and the emergence and hardening of the Labor/Liberal divide over British awards, illuminating issues that are still part of Australian life—and of the honours system—today. The history of the honours system is equally the history of the nation, revealing who Australians were, what they have become, what they value, and the things that have unified and divided them.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal governmenten_US
dc.subject.otherHonours
dc.subject.otherOrder of Australia
dc.subject.otherOrder of the British Empire
dc.subject.otherAustralian history
dc.subject.otherAwards
dc.titleHonouring a Nation
dc.title.alternativeA History of Australia's Honours System
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/HN.2022
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781760465018
oapen.relation.isbn9781760465001
oapen.pages296
oapen.place.publicationCanberra


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