The Fuss that Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey"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." |
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Contents
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White Ghost of Empire | 90 |
From the Frontier to the Gulf | 114 |
My Lord the Workingman? | 136 |
Memories | 157 |
Notes | 173 |
Comprehensive Bibliography of Works by Blainey | 194 |
Index | 217 |
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The Fuss That Never Ended Deborah Gare,Geoffrey Bolton,Stuart Macintyre,Tom Stannage No preview available - 2013 |
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Page 55 - A world of vivid passions, certainly, but a blind world, as any living world must be, as ours is, oblivious of the deep currents of history, of those living waters on which our frail barks are tossed like Rimbaud's drunken boat
Page 55 - In truth, the historian can never get away from the question of time in history: time sticks to his thinking like soil to a gardener's spade.
Page 187 - G. Blainey, Gold and Paper: A History of the National Bank of Australasia (Melbourne, 1958); RJ Wood, The Commercial Bank of Australia Limited: History of an Australian Institution 1866-1981 (North Melbourne, 1990).
Page 30 - distance may be as revealing as say Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier theory" is in probing the history of the United States . . . Distance itself may not explain why they [events in Australian history] happened but it forces a search for new explanations
Page 188 - Geoffrey Blainey, The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining (Melbourne, 1963); Charles L.
Page 55 - I'histoire evenementielle, the history of events, and embrace the slower moving structures and cycles over the centuries. He saw the history of events as 'a surface disturbance, the waves stirred up by the powerful movement of tides. A history of short, sharp, nervous vibrations.
Page 23 - ... his books were merely the long prefaces to the short political manifestoes he was writing elsewhere, but the same criticism could have been made of Edward Shann. Every historian embodies in his research and writing his own assumptions about human behaviour and the ideal society and, for better and worse, these assumptions affect both the questions which he asks of the past and the answers he finds to those questions. When a historian lacks the orthodox assumptions of his times, the complaint...
Page 113 - At first here and there a man raised his arm to the sky, or tried to drink from his waterbottle. But as the sun of that burning day climbed higher, such movement ceased. Over the whole summit the figures lay still in the quivering...
Page 105 - I do not accept the view, widely held in the Federal Cabinet, that some kind of slow Asian takeover of Australia is inevitable.
Page 74 - This book starts from the premise that gender is integral to the processes that comprise the history of Australia - that political and economic as well as social and cultural history are constituted in gendered terms.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Fuss that Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey |
| Editor | Deborah Gare |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Publish, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0522850340, 9780522850345 |
| Length | 221 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Historical History / Australia & New Zealand History / Essays History / Historiography |
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