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'Spending ourselves and our money': The Red Cross and the management of civilian commitment in Australia, 1914-1918

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posted on 2021-01-01, 00:00 authored by Bart ZiinoBart Ziino
Using local branch reports of the Australian Red Cross, this article charts the shifting emotions that Australian civilians exhibited towards the First World War in the years between 1914 and 1919. As the war intensified, and its costs increased, civilians themselves consistently revised their hopes and expectations, and internalized their own place in a war that increasingly offered little sign of ending. Among these Australians the central, painful, dynamic of the war was a persistent erosion of emotional resilience at the same time that their anxiety over loved ones—and even their antipathies towards fellow citizens—demanded and reaffirmed their emotional commitment to the cause in which they were so invested.

History

Journal

Home Front Studies

Volume

1

Pagination

32-58

Location

Lincoln, NE

ISSN

2768-5578

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

1

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press