John A. Moses John A. Moses i(A55030 works by) (a.k.a. John Anthony Moses)
Born: Established: 10 Jun 1930 Atherton, Atherton area, Mareeba - Atherton - Ravenshoe area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland, ; Died: Ceased: 30 May 2024 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Looking Over the Fence : Reflections and Reminiscences of an Historian’s Journey from the Australian Bush to a Wider World John A. Moses , Melbourne : Arcadia , 2023 26663754 2023 single work autobiography 'An academic's journey is often a mixture of determination and serendipity where the ambitions of a young mind and a chance meeting of an influential scholar open opportunities that may not have been foreseen. For John Moses, "a boy from the Bush" of Queensland with mixed religious and ethnic heritage, an education for the Anglican priesthood at St Francis Theological College in Brisbane unexpectedly set him down of learning German history, when is Latin teacher, a German Jew converted to Christianity, bequeathed him his books and memoirs of his life in Wilhelmine Germany during the Weimer Republic and up to the Nazi seizure of power. As both mentor and friend, Canon Dr Wilhelm Lorenz Rechnitz (1899-1979) offered the young man a uniquely personal insight into the most shattering spiritual and political catastrophe to envelop the Western world.' (Publication summary)
1 A Doughty War Time Leader : Brisbane's First Archbishop, St Clair George Alfred Donaldson 1904-1921. John A. Moses , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: Queensland History Journal , August vol. 24 no. 2 2019; (p. 184-196)
'As we now have experienced four years of the centenary commemorations of the Great War of 1914-1918 it behoves historians to examine the effect of that conflict on the population. There exist a number of studies on the working class, but how, for example did the intellectual leaders of the time assess our situation? All the universities had established war committees to offer the expertise of the staff for the war effort and that ranged from chemists and engineers to work for munitions production on the practical side while on the propaganda aspects of warfare, it was the history professors and others in the humanities who had first hand experience of Germany and could therefore inform the public concerning the political-cultural background to the conflict. In addition we recall that there were already in existence voluntary Archbishop St Clair George Alfred think tanks in all capital cities of the Donaldson. then British Empire/Commonwealth (Anglican Archives, Brisbane) called the Round Table of which some of the most highly educated citizens were members.' (Introduction)
 
1 Anzac and the 'Memory Industry' : Reflections on Recent Publications John A. Moses , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Queensland History Journal , February vol. 23 no. 8 2018; (p. 534-541)

'There have recently appeared, both in Australia and abroad, a considerable number of publications on 'memory studies', especially relating to the commemoration of fallen soldiers, mainly through the building of war memorials. A great deal of effort has quite recently been expended on this endeavour in Queensland, driven earlier by the Anzac Day Commemoration Committee [ADCC], and more recently by the Canon Garland Memorial Association. As scholars such as the American Professor Jay Winter have illustrated, commemoration, especially after World War I, became very common in all formerly belligerent countries. Everywhere, monuments were being erected, and large cemeteries near the sites of historic battles were constructed and generally maintained with great care. Very soon a Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established to be responsible for the graves of soldiers and airmen killed in combat on foreign soil. Nations honoured their dead heroes and sought to comfort the bereaved relatives; there were, of course variations in the style of monuments from country to country and there were also differences in the sponsorship of the memorialisation. Sometimes the initiative came from prominent individuals, governments, or, as in the case of Queensland, from voluntary associations as well as municipalities. What happened in Queensland was the local variation of a world-wide movement.' (Publication abstract)

1 Conflict and Compassion John A. Moses , 2015 single work biography
— Appears in: Inside History , March no. 14 2015; (p. 7-9)
1 Untitled John A. Moses , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics and History , March vol. 52 no. 1 2006; (p. 142)

— Review of John Wren : A Life Reconsidered James Griffin , 2004 single work criticism
1 Untitled John A. Moses , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 20 no. 1 2001; (p. 135-136)

— Review of Religiose Lyrik in Australien : Rezeption und Funktionalisierung theologischer und philosophischer Praetexte Marion Spies , 2001 single work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Prussian-German Militarism, 1914-18 in Australian Perspective : The Thought of George Arnold Wood John A. Moses , New York (City) : Peter Lang , 1991 9243877 1991 single work criticism

'Australia declared war on the German Empire in August 1914 not only because as a Dominion within the British Empire it was considered a matter of course. In fact the Australian Government had made up its own mind about the nature of the German threat to national security. There were a number of influential writers at the time who contributed to the formation of a distinct Australian image of German militarism. Foremost among these was Professor George Arnold Wood, the first Challis Professor of History in Sydney, 1891-1928. He had analysed the nature of Prussian-German political culture from the stand point of a radical English-trained liberal and projected an accurate image of the enemy. Basic to this was Wood's carefully drawn distinction between the Germany of true culture and humanity on the one hand and the barbarous feudal aristocracy of Prussia on the other which had determined German political culture since Bismarck had founded the Reich under Prussia in 1871.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon The Australian Journal of Politics and History On Being a German-Jewish Refugee in Australia : Experiences and Studies vol. 31 no. 1 John A. Moses (editor), Konrad Kwiet (editor), 1985 Z610930 1985 periodical issue
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