"War is not a Christian Mission": Racial Invasion and Religious Crusade in H. S. Gullett’s Official History of the Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine

Authors

  • Christopher Lee USQ

Keywords:

Official History, World War I, H.S. Gullett, C.E.W. Bean, Orientalism, Invasion Narrative, Australian light Horse

Abstract

This essay argues that H. S. Gullett’s The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine, Volume VII of the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 repudiates the characteristic anxieties of reverse colonization narratives by reaffirming orientalist stereotypes and imagining the Australian Light Horse as a source for the rejuvenation of British stock and Imperial defence.

Author Biography

  • Christopher Lee, USQ
    Christopher Lee is a member of the Public Memory Research Centre at the University of Southern Queensland. His most recent book is City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination (Curtin 2004) and he is currently researching official Australian representations of the Great War.

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Published

2008-03-05

Issue

Vol. 7 (2007)

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"War is not a Christian Mission": Racial Invasion and Religious Crusade in H. S. Gullett’s Official History of the Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine . (2008). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 7, 85-96. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/9715