Aussie, Aussie, Aussie; oi, oi, oi.

Neville Meaney. A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy, 1901-23. Volume 1,The Search for Security in the Pacific, 1901-14. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009 [1976]. Neville Meaney. A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy, 1901-23. Volume 2, Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2009. I want to understand Australia's perceptions of the outside world in the First World War period and what effect those perceptions might have had on the home front. This now-completed two-volume work does try to cover both high diplomacy and domestic politics so I hope it's a good start here.

Christopher Waters. Australia and Appeasement: Imperial Foreign Policy and the Origins of World War II. London and New York: I. B. Tauris & Co., 2012. A book from the future! This looks like fun. As the subtitle suggests, I think it will be of interest to more than just Australian historians: lukewarm support from the Dominions was one reason why Chamberlain hesitated to go to war over the Sudetenland, for example. It does seem a bit odd, however, that while Japan does get a fair few mentions in the index, the focus is on Europe. Especially with the nice photo of 'Pig-Iron Bob' Menzies on the dustjacket...

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