Footnoting History
  • Home
  • Listen
  • About
  • Calendar
  • Archive
  • Teach
  • Donate
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Listen
  • About
  • Calendar
  • Archive
  • Teach
  • Donate
  • Shop
  • Contact
Search
Picture

The Emu War

8/10/2019

3 Comments

 
Apple   | Audible |  Spotify  |  RSS  |  YouTube (captioned)

Picture
Of all the wars in the 20th century, no loss was more frustrating than the military operation against the emu in Western Australia in 1932. Learn about the treatment of these enormous flightless birds as an organized military formation and the subsequent disaster as no amount of military force could successfully and effectively defeat these warriors of the animal world.

Podcaster: Lesley
Further Reading

Adrian Burton, "Tell me, mate, what were emus like?", Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 11:6 (2013).

Bec Crew, "The Great Emu War: in which some large, flightless birds unwittingly foiled the Australian Army." Scientific American. (2014). 

Murray Johnson,  "'Feathered foes': soldier settlers and Western Australia's 'Emu War' of 1932". Journal of Australian Studies. 30:88 (2006), 147–157.

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
3 Comments
8BitDogo
11/1/2019 02:31:58 pm

Thanks, this helped me do my nhd project. Look it up if you don't know what it is.

Reply
Pablo Aragona
1/18/2020 12:34:03 am

Super interesting! I love the way you described it. Great job.

Reply
sarah B. Abegonia link
9/21/2021 01:16:18 am

hello I'm gonna learn history

Reply



Leave a Reply.

Site Map

Home
Listen​
Calendar
Archive

​About
​Contact
Shop
Media Kit
 © 2013-2023 Footnoting History.  All rights reserved.
Footnoting History and the Footnoting History logo
are trademarks of Footnoting History, NY.

Footnoting History operates under a SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement.
Logo design by Alica Desantis (https://adisantis.com/).
  • Home
  • Listen
  • About
  • Calendar
  • Archive
  • Teach
  • Donate
  • Shop
  • Contact