A New Rival State: Australia in Tsarist Diplomatic Communications - Softcover

 
9781760462284: A New Rival State: Australia in Tsarist Diplomatic Communications
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1760462284 ISBN 13: 9781760462284
Publisher: ANU Press, 2018

Synopsis

A New Rival State is a unique collection of dispatches written in 1857–1917 by the Russian consuls in Melbourne to the Imperial Russian Embassy in London and the Russian Foreign Ministry in St Petersburg. Written by eight consuls, they offer a Russian view of the development of the settler colonies in the late nineteenth century and the first years of the federated Commonwealth of Australia. They cover the federalist movement, the changing domestic political situation, labour politics, the treatment of the Indigenous population, the ‘White Australia’ policy, Australia’s defensive capacity and foreign policy as part of the British Empire. The bulk of the material is drawn from the Russian-language collection The Russian Consular Service in Australia 1857–1917, edited by Alexander Massov and Marina Pollard (2014), using documents from the archive of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

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Publisher
ANU Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1760462284
ISBN 13 
9781760462284
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
368
Editor
Massov Alexander, Pollard Marina, Windle Kevin