The Australian press and American expansion 1895-1901
Abstract
This study was undertaken for several reasons.
First, there was the gap in knowledge. Australian-American
relations and attitudes have been reasonably well covered for the period
up to the Civil War, and especially for the gold rush period. 1 Two
theses bridge the gap to 1888.2 That story has also been taken up from
the end of World War One to the present day. 3· But, as Lionel Fredman
put it in his book America Enters The Pacific, the year before this
study was begun (1969): p.46:
Books on Australian history leave the impression that
there was a kind of hiatus in Australian-American
relations between the Gold Rushes of the 1850's and
the visit of the Great White Fleet, if they take it
seriously at all. Even the more specialized works
seem to find the period unimportant.