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Major Critical Writings of the 1980s on the Germans in Australia

Major Critical Writings of the 1980s on the Germans in Australia Under the convenient b m e r of multiculturalism the 1980s witnessed a renewed surge of interest in aspects of German-Australianethnicity. Surprisingly, in the considerable time span that had elapsed since the publication of A. Lodewyckx’s impeccably researched, authoritative pike de resistance Die Deufschen in Australien (1932), the number of scholarly publications to focus on German-Australian cross-currents had been quite minimal. In the sensitive year of 1945 Charles Price (German Settlers in South Australia) documented and assessed the prevalence of Teutonic national and racial selfconsciousness (Deutschtumspolitik) within the pre-war South Australian enclaves as a yardstick for measuring the “desirability” of the German element in the nation’s future migration programme. An acclaimed landmark of the fifties was undoubtedly W. D. Borrie’s demographic study, Italians and Germans in Australia (1954), a practical book which, if for no other reason than its inclusion of statistical charts on nation-wide Alan Corkhill assimilation trends (naturalisation, marriage patterns, etc.) has never outlived its usefulness to social historians and geographers alike. The politically more accepting climate of 1981 saw the appearance of German Speaking Settlers in Australia by Austrian-born freelance journalist and creative writer Josef Vondra. Written in English (cf. Lodewyckx), it was the first http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Copyright © 1991 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0004-9522
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1467-8497
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10.1111/j.1467-8497.1991.tb00037.x
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Under the convenient b m e r of multiculturalism the 1980s witnessed a renewed surge of interest in aspects of German-Australianethnicity. Surprisingly, in the considerable time span that had elapsed since the publication of A. Lodewyckx’s impeccably researched, authoritative pike de resistance Die Deufschen in Australien (1932), the number of scholarly publications to focus on German-Australian cross-currents had been quite minimal. In the sensitive year of 1945 Charles Price (German Settlers in South Australia) documented and assessed the prevalence of Teutonic national and racial selfconsciousness (Deutschtumspolitik) within the pre-war South Australian enclaves as a yardstick for measuring the “desirability” of the German element in the nation’s future migration programme. An acclaimed landmark of the fifties was undoubtedly W. D. Borrie’s demographic study, Italians and Germans in Australia (1954), a practical book which, if for no other reason than its inclusion of statistical charts on nation-wide Alan Corkhill assimilation trends (naturalisation, marriage patterns, etc.) has never outlived its usefulness to social historians and geographers alike. The politically more accepting climate of 1981 saw the appearance of German Speaking Settlers in Australia by Austrian-born freelance journalist and creative writer Josef Vondra. Written in English (cf. Lodewyckx), it was the first

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Published: Aug 1, 1991

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