Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2026
In revisiting each of the key arguments of the above chapters, this brief conclusion restates the case that Australians, in coming to believe that they were equals in empire, increasingly brought themselves into empire’s discourses, communities, and projects. It restates the case for broadening Australian historiography’s horizons to consider more than just the Anglo-Australian connection when accounting for Australia’s imperial history. The metaphorical meaning of imperial public pageantry at the festival of empire in 1911 is examined; this demonstrates well the public and the private reifications of Australia’s imperial political cosmology. Final remarks are reserved for suggesting where subsequent histories of Australia and empire might go from this foundation.
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