Mobilising the Masses : Populist Conservative Movements in Australia and New Zealand During the Great Depression.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cunningham, Matthew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Zealand.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2022

Canberra : ANU Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The radical right has gained considerable ground in the twenty-first century. From Brexit to Bolsonaro and Tea Partiers to Trump, many of these diverse manifestations of right-wing populism share a desire to co‑opt or supplant the mainstream parties that have traditionally held sway over the centre right.

Contents:

Intro

Abbreviations

List of figures

Figure 2.1 Occurrence of the phrase 'machine politics' in Australian newspapers, 1926-1935

Figure 4.1 Geographical distribution of members, Citizens' League of South Australia

Figure 4.2 Geographical distribution of members, All for Australia League, New South Wales

Figure 4.3 Geographical distribution of members, Australian Citizens' League, Victoria and New South Wales

Figure 4.4 Age statistics (leadership): All for Australia League

Figure 4.5 Age statistics (leadership): Australian Citizens' League

Figure 4.6 Age statistics (leadership): New Zealand Legion

Figure 4.7 Age statistics (frontline membership): New Zealand Legion

Figure 4.8 Military statistics (leadership): All for Australia League

Figure 4.9 Military statistics (leadership): Australian Citizens' League

Figure 4.10 Military statistics (leadership): New Zealand Legion

Figure 4.11 Military statistics (frontline membership): New Zealand Legion

List of plates

Plate 0.1 The inaugural meeting of the Australian Citizens' League in the Melbourne Town Hall

Plate 0.2 New Zealand Legion cartoon lamenting the lack of unity between political parties during the Great Depression

Plate 1.1 The conjoining of 'Bolshevist savagery' with 'German kultur' in the late 1910s

Plate 1.2 Linking anti-Catholic and anti-Bolshevik prejudices in the late 1910s

Plate 2.1 A 'starvation debenture' lampooning Jack Lang's 'repudiationist' policies during the Depression

Plate 2.2 Cartoon implying that Lang's policies presaged communism 'by stages'

Plate 3.1 Portrait of Robert Campbell Begg, c. 1931

Plate 3.2 Portrait of Alexander J. Gibson, c. 1920s

Plate 3.3 Portrait of Ernest Turnbull, 1931

Plate 3.4 Portrait of Edward Daniel Alexander Bagot, 1938.

Plate 4.1 The Citizens' League of South Australia's 'membership thermometer'

Plate 4.2 Inaugural meeting of the Citizens' League of South Australia at the Adelaide Town Hall

Plate 4.3 Advertisement for a Citizens' League of South Australia 'monster meeting'

Plate 5.1 Australian Citizens' League cartoon in support of Joseph Lyons

Plates 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 Australian Citizens' League billboards in support of Joseph Lyons (after the movement adopted the 'All for Australia League' brand)

Plate 5.5 Cartoon lampooning NSW Nationalist Party leader Thomas Bavin's rocky relationship with the All for Australia League

Plate 5.6 Robert Menzies, president of the National Federation of Victoria, is anointed leader of the United Australia Organisation after failing to consult with the Australian Citizens' League about the change

Plate 6.1 New Zealand Legion cartoon criticising the control of British financiers over the New Zealand economy

Plate 6.2 Cartoon calling for farmers to employ more men so that they can buy farming produce

Plate 6.3 'Caesar's Dilemma': The divisive effect of the New Zealand Legion's policies

Plate 6.4 Robert Campbell Begg arrives in Auckland for a New Zealand Legion meeting

List of tables

Table 4.1 Employment statistics (leadership): All for Australia League

Table 4.2 Employment statistics (leadership): Citizens' League of South Australia

Table 4.3 Employment statistics (leadership): Australian Citizens' League

Table 4.4 Employment statistics (leadership): New Zealand Legion

Table 4.5 Employment statistics (frontline membership): Citizens' League of South Australia

Table 4.6 Employment statistics (frontline membership): New Zealand Legion

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Constructing the citizen: The evolution of conservatism in Australia and New Zealand.

2. From reactionary to radical: The Great Depression and the origins of the citizens' movements

3. Give us a creed: The ideology of the citizens' movements

4. A call to arms: The populist culture of mass conservative mobilisation

5. Flirting with party politics: The Australian citizens' movements and the United Australia Party

6. 'New deals' and 'funny money': The New Zealand Legion and monetary reform

Conclusion

Bibliography.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Cunningham, Matthew Mobilising the Masses

ISBN:

9781760465117

1760465119

OCLC:

1310340074

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