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A Historian for All Seasons
Essays for Geoffrey Bolton
Series: Australian History
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Contributors include Stuart Macintyre, Jenny Gregory, Lenore Layman, Carol Bolton, Mark McKenna, Graeme Davison, Carl Bridge, Alan Atkinson, Andrew Gaynor, Tom Griffiths, Tim Rowse, Lizzy Watt, Mary Anne Jebb and Pat Jalland.
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A Historian for All Seasons highlights Geoffrey Bolton as the most versatile and widely travelled historian of his generation in Australia. As a scholar, teacher, and commentator, Bolton enriched the understanding of the country's regional mosaic, notable figures, and others equally revealing. His work explored the natural environment, social patterns, and political life, making significant contributions to the field.
Bolton was also renowned for his unwavering encouragement of others. The contributors to this volume use his work as a departure point for original essays on various themes in Australian history. Contributors include Stuart Macintyre, Jenny Gregory, Lenore Layman, Carol Bolton, Mark McKenna, Graeme Davison, Carl Bridge, Alan Atkinson, Andrew Gaynor, Tom Griffiths, Tim Rowse, Lizzy Watt, Mary Anne Jebb, and Pat Jalland.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781925495607
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 June 2017
Country: Australia
Imprint: Monash University Publishing
Contributors:
- Edited by Stuart Macintyre
- Edited by Jenny Gregory
- Edited by Lenore Layman
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Stuart Macintyre was recruited to Murdoch University by Geoffrey Bolton in 1976 and worked with him on the Oxford History of Australia. His most recent publication is Australias Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s and he has currently exchanged chocolates for boiled lollies with a study of what has happened to Australias universities. Jenny Gregory co-authored Claremont: a History with Geoff and remains grateful for his generosity towards a junior colleague who had criticised his view of Western Australias interwar years. Her research focuses on urban history and heritage, but her most recent book is Seeking Wisdom: A Centenary History of the University of Western Australia. Lenore Layman enjoyed being a colleague of Geoff Bolton at Murdoch University. She has most recently published Blood Nose Politics: A Centenary History of the WA National Party, worked on the Australian Asbestos Network website on the health disaster of asbestos use in Australia, and is currently busy on a variety of community history projects.
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