“澳大利亚将获得自由!”:西澳大利亚州与大英帝国的分离,1933-1935年

IF 0.6 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Robert S. G. Fletcher, Benjamin Mountford
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1935年,威斯敏斯特的一个联合议会委员会报告了“西澳大利亚州关于分离的请愿书”。1933年,三分之二的西澳大利亚人投票决定脱离澳大利亚联邦,联合委员会最终决定,西澳大利亚的请愿书“不适合接受”。在英国历史上,承诺全面修宪的公投结果与实施修宪的实际情况发生冲突,这不是最后一次。但是,尽管西澳大利亚的分裂运动失败了,但它还是引发了一系列关于伦敦对海外英国人的义务、不列颠身份以及帝国关系未来的辩论。虽然以前的学术研究主要集中在西澳大利亚州分裂的地方和国家层面,但本文将其作为一个窗口来研究构成两次世界大战之间英国帝国的复杂政治伙伴关系。它论证了该运动的帝国意义,并首次对其对两次世界大战之间的帝国事务的影响进行了实质性的调查。它认为,西澳大利亚州的分裂应该得到比传统上给予的更严肃的考虑,不仅是作为一个地方和国家的问题,而且首先是作为一个帝国的问题。
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‘Westralia shall be free!’: the secession of Western Australia and the state of the British Empire, 1933-1935
ABSTRACT In 1935, a Joint Parliamentary Committee at Westminster reported on ‘The Petition from the State of Western Australia in Relation to Secession’. The culmination of a process triggered by a 1933 referendum, when two-thirds of West Australians voted to secede from the Australian Commonwealth, the Joint Committee famously resolved that Western Australia’s petition was ‘not proper to be received’. Not for the last time in British history, a referendum result promising sweeping constitutional change collided with the practicalities of its implementation. But while Western Australia’s secession movement foundered, it nonetheless sparked a series of debates around London’s obligations to overseas Britons, Britannic identity, and the future of imperial relations. While previous scholarship has for the most part focused on the local and national dimensions of Western Australian secession, this article examines it as a window onto the complex political partnerships that comprised Britain’s interwar empire. It makes the case for the movement’s imperial significance and offers the first substantive investigation of its influence on interwar imperial affairs. It argues that West Australian secession deserves more serious consideration than it has traditionally been awarded, not only as a local and national question, but above all as an imperial issue.
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期刊介绍: Contemporary British History offers innovative new research on any aspect of British history - foreign, Commonwealth, political, social, cultural or economic - dealing with the period since the First World War. The editors welcome work which involves cross-disciplinary insights, as the journal seeks to reflect the work of all those interested in the recent past in Britain, whatever their subject specialism. Work which places contemporary Britain within a comparative (whether historical or international) context is also encouraged. In addition to articles, the journal regularly features interviews and profiles, archive reports, and a substantial review section.
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