Research Catalog

Title

Mutiny! : naval insurrections in Australia and New Zealand / Tom Frame and Kevin Baker.

Author

Frame, T. R. (Thomas R.), 1962-

Publication

St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Baker, Kevin.

Description

xi, 283 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

Since 1916 there have been more mutinies in the Royal Australian Navy than in any other maintained by an English-speaking nation. New Zealand has suffered only one - the largest in recent history. Drawing on correspondence, reports and interviews, this text examines why such outbreaks occur.

Alternative Title

Naval insurrections in Australia and New Zealand

Subject

• Mutiny > Australia > History
• Mutiny > New Zealand > History
• Australia > History, Naval
• New Zealand > History, Naval

Genre/Form

• History
• Naval history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-278) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The evolution of mutiny -- Mutiny and the Royal Navy -- The New South Corps: were they really mutineers? -- Mutiny in the Australian colonial forces -- A democratic navy -- World War I -- Mutiny in whose flagships? -- The turbulent twenties -- Depression disputes -- The tumultous thirties -- World War II -- Vanity and mutiny -- Mutiny in New Zealand -- Postwar disappointment -- Mutiny in the Australian Army and Air force -- Volunteers and mutiny -- Conscience and mutiny -- Looking back and moving on.

ISBN

1865083518 (pbk.)

OCLC

46882022

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library