The Fuss That Never Ended The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey
by Gare, Deborah; Bolton, Geoffrey; Macintyre, Stuart; Stannage, TomFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-03-02
Publisher(s): Melbourne University Press
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Summary
Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's best-known historians. This book gathers a group of fellow historians of various ages, interests, and political stances to comment on Blainey's career and work. They examine his views on aboriginality, ethnicity, environmentalism, gender, empire, immigration, technology, corporate history, labor, war, sport, and media, revealing a graceful and provocative storyteller.
Table of Contents
| Preface | vii | ||
| Contributors | ix | ||
| Blainey and the Australian Historical Profession | 1 | (14) | |
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| Half a Determinist: Blainey and the Mechanics of History | 15 | (13) | |
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| The Tyranny of Distance Revisited | 28 | (11) | |
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| Triumph of the Colonists | 39 | (14) | |
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| Light Green, Dark Green | 53 | (14) | |
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| A Man's World? | 67 | (12) | |
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| The Steven Seagal Factor: The Corporate Histories | 79 | (11) | |
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| White Ghost of Empire | 90 | (12) | |
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| The Politics of Race | 102 | (12) | |
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| From the Frontier to the Gulf | 114 | (11) | |
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| Sport Matters | 125 | (11) | |
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| My Lord the Workingman? | 136 | (12) | |
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| The Media Game | 148 | (9) | |
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| The Melbourne School of History: Memories and Reflections | 157 | (16) | |
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| Notes | 173 | (21) | |
| Comprehensive Bibliography of Works by Blainey | 194 | (23) | |
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| Index | 217 |
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