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The Empire’s Patriotic Fund

Public Benevolence and the Boer War in an Australian Colony

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  1. John McQuilton

    1. History, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

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  • Assesses the Empire’s Patriotic Fund, set up in 1901 to meet the needs of dependants and men invalided in Australia during the Boer War

  • Offers the first comprehensive analysis of an Australian fund established to support those affected by a sustained war being fought for Empire by Australians

  • Examines applications to the Empire's Patriotic Fund to provide insight into how concepts of class and gender informed early twentieth-century social welfare

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Private Benevolence

    • John McQuilton
    Pages 1-4

  3. The Empire’s Patriotic Fund

    • John McQuilton
    Pages 5-16

  4. Assisting a “Noble Cause”

    • John McQuilton
    Pages 17-27

  5. “Machinery and Methods”

    • John McQuilton
    Pages 29-39

  6. A Changing Focus: The Invalided Men

    • John McQuilton
    Pages 41-60

  7. Soldiers’ Wives Can Starve

    • John McQuilton
    Pages 61-76

  8. Mothers, Sisters, Guardians and Fathers

    • John McQuilton
    Pages 77-90

  9. Spite, Ire and A Sense of Entitlement

    • John McQuilton
    Pages 91-103

  10. Taking Advantage of the Public’s Generosity?

    • John McQuilton
    Pages 105-116

  11. Conclusion

    • John McQuilton
    Pages 117-120

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 121-131
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About this book

This book examines the Empire’s Patriotic Fund, established in Victoria, Australia, in 1901 to assist the dependants of the men serving in the Boer War and the men invalided home because of wounds or illness. Acting as an autonomous body and drawing on funds raised through a public appeal, its work marked one of the first attempts in Australia to deal with the consequences of Australian participation in a sustained war. This is the first full study of an Australian fund established to support those affected by a sustained war being fought for Empire by Australians. Rather than casting those affected by war as victims, John McQuilton examines how a body of middle class men attempted to come to grips with an experience that lay outside prevailing notions of social welfare. Based on applications submitted to the Empire’s Patriotic Fund where both class and gender played their roles, this book opens up further study of such funds and the question of antecedents in the history of repatriation in Australia in the early twentieth century. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • History, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

    John McQuilton

About the author

John McQuilton is Associate Professor and Principal Honorary Fellow in History at the University of Wollongong, Australia. His most recent book, Australia’s Communities and the Boer War (Palgrave, 2016), examined the impact of the Boer War on a regional community.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Empire’s Patriotic Fund

  • Book Subtitle: Public Benevolence and the Boer War in an Australian Colony

  • Authors: John McQuilton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61827-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61826-5Published: 07 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87172-1Published: 07 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61827-2Published: 25 July 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 131

  • Topics: Australasian History, History of Military, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social History, African History

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