‘Falsified by History’: Menzies, Asia and Post-Imperial Australia

This essay won the 2007 History Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Australasia & Pacific Section. Former Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies gave the East-West Center's 1969 Dillingham Lecture at the University of Hawaii. Menzies, then almost four years into retirement, seized the opportuni...

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Veröffentlicht: 2008
In: History compass
Jahr: 2008, Band: 6, Heft: 4, Seiten: 1010-1023
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