Joan Beaumont is a professor of history in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.Matthew Jordan works as a historian in the Historical Publications and Information Section of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

• AcknowledgementsForewordDennis RichardsonAustralia and the world: Neville Meaney and the making of foreign relations history in Australia1. Not the Cinderella it once seemed: the historiography of Australian foreign policyJoan Beaumont2. Australia and Japan in focus: from image to comparative historyHugh Clarke3. Pondering Australia’s world: Neville Meaney on the role of culture, ideology and geopolitics in American and Australian foreign policy historyMatthew JordanRace, nationalism and White Australia4. The Chinese immigration crisis of 1888 and the coming of White AustraliaMatthew Jordan5. ‘He no doubt felt insulted’: the White Australia Policy and Australia’s relations with India, 1944–1964Eric MeadowsSentiment and self-interest in Australian public and intellectual life6. A military mission for Greater Britain: Edward Hutton’s ‘A Co-operative System for Defence of the Empire’Richard Lehane7. Robert Randolph Garran and the creation of the Australian CommonwealthColin Milner8. A.C.V. Melbourne in Australian international thought: nationalism and appeasement between the World WarsJames CottonThe British world compared9. The political cultures of Australia and Britain: how alike were they?Ross McKibbin10. The ‘new nationalism’ in Australia, Canada and New Zealand: civic culture in the wake of the British worldStuart WardDependent ally? Australian–American relations11. Cold War ‘love feast’: the first US presidential visit to Australia, October 1966James Curran12. Too much memory: writing the history of Australian–American relations during the Howard yearsDavid McLeanThe making and unmaking of American nationalism13. Becoming Wilsonian: Woodrow Wilson’s conversion to the American national mythDavid T. Rowlands14. Recovering the roots of Reinhold Neibuhr’s critique of American nationalismMichael G. Thompson15. An ideological odyssey: Nixon, China and the decline of American nationalismTom SwitzerSelect list of publications by Neville MeaneyContributorsIndex