Peter Cochrans geschriften duiken in de diepgaande gevolgen van conflicten en de fundamentele verhalen van de samenleving. Hij onderzoekt meesterlijk historische gebeurtenissen, met de nadruk op de psychologische dimensies van oorlog en hoe deze ervaringen het collectieve geheugen en de constructie van legendes vormgeven. Cochrane's kenmerkende stijl combineert rigoureus historisch onderzoek met meeslepende verhalen, en belicht complexe gebeurtenissen uit het verleden en hun blijvende menselijke gevolgen.
Featuring 108 Tips for Time Traveller, this title explains how very simple analysis allows the prediction of debacles such as the 3G auction and the subsequent collapse of an industry, whilst simple - minded thinking is dangerous in the context of a world that is predominantly chaotic and out of control.
In the half-century preceding the Great War there was a dramatic shift in the mindset of Australia’s political leaders, from a profound sense of safety in the Empire’s embrace to a deep anxiety about abandonment by Britain. Collective memory now recalls a rallying to the cause in 1914, a total identification with British interests and the need to defeat Germany. But there is an underside to this story: the belief that the newly federated nation’s security, and its race purity, must be bought with blood. Before the war Commonwealth governments were concerned not with enemies in Europe but with perils in the Pacific. Fearful of an ‘awakening Asia’ and worried by opposition to the White Australia policy, they prepared for defence against Japan—only to find themselves fighting for the Empire on the other side of the world. Prime Minister Billy Hughes spoke of this paradox in 1916, urging his countrymen: ‘I bid you go and fight for white Australia in France.’ In this vital and illuminating book, Peter Cochrane examines how the racial preoccupations that shaped Australia’s preparation for and commitment to the war have been lost to popular memory.