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Article: The Australian Centenary History of Defence Volume VI: Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics.
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- New Zealand International Review
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- May 1, 2002
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Edited by: Joan Beaumont Published by: Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001, 683pp, $130.
This volume will be immensely useful to anyone carrying out research on Australian defence policy, and indeed regional military activities. Military historian Joan Beaumont of Deakin University has brought together 122 contributors to produce a valuable resource. She herself provides, in the Introduction, a useful account of Australian historiography of war and military studies, suggesting that `Paradoxically, for a country that has been essentially anti-militaristic ... the experience of war has assumed a central place in the national memory.' She notes that defence studies were ...