Attitudes To Non-European Immigration
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At the crossroads of race, policy, and national identity, Attitudes to Non-European Immigration presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of the most contentious chapters in Australian history — the formation and entrenchment of what would become the White Australia Policy. A. T. Yarwood chronicles the deeply held prejudices, political debates, and social anxieties that shaped colonial and post-Federation Australia's response to non-European peoples seeking entry to the continent, situating the reader at the heart of a nation actively constructing its own boundaries of belonging. Part of the Problems in Australian History series, this volume argues that understanding Australia's immigration attitudes is inseparable from understanding the broader forces of empire, labour politics, and racial ideology that defined the era. Yarwood's precise, scholarly prose cuts through nationalist mythology to uncover the human and institutional dynamics at play, making this an indispensable text for students and historians alike. For anyone seeking to understand how a nation's identity is forged through exclusion as much as inclusion, this work poses questions whose echoes resonate long after the final page.
Author: A. T. Yarwood
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of race, policy, and national identity, Attitudes to Non-European Immigration presents a rigorous and unflinching examination of one of the most contentious chapters in Australian history — the formation and entrenchment of what would become the White Australia Policy. A. T. Yarwood chronicles the deeply held prejudices, political debates, and social anxieties that shaped colonial and post-Federation Australia's response to non-European peoples seeking entry to the continent, situating the reader at the heart of a nation actively constructing its own boundaries of belonging. Part of the Problems in Australian History series, this volume argues that understanding Australia's immigration attitudes is inseparable from understanding the broader forces of empire, labour politics, and racial ideology that defined the era. Yarwood's precise, scholarly prose cuts through nationalist mythology to uncover the human and institutional dynamics at play, making this an indispensable text for students and historians alike. For anyone seeking to understand how a nation's identity is forged through exclusion as much as inclusion, this work poses questions whose echoes resonate long after the final page.