| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 345 pages.) |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Geoffrey Bolton: A Lifetime of History -- Chapter 2. History at Home, or How Do You Know That’s True? -- Chapter 3. 'The Character Business': Biographical Political Writing in Australia -- Chapter 4. 'Yarning in the Street': The Evolution of Australian Public History -- Chapter 5. Geoffrey Bolton and the British World -- Chapter 6. 'Do unto others': Australia and the Anglican Conscience, 1840-56 and Afterwards -- Chapter 7. Spoils and Spoilers: Geoffrey Bolton's Environmental History -- Chapter 8. The Peripatetic Professor and a Sense of Place -- Chapter 9. 'The North': Colonial Hegemony and Indigenous Stratification -- Chapter 10. Fear, Affection and Wurnan: Reframing Station History in the Kimberley through Jack Wherra's Art -- Chapter 11. The Challenges of Family Ageing 1920-64: Nettie and Vance Palmer -- Chapter 12. Western Australian Entrepreneurism: The Life of Deborah Hackett |
| Summary |
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the country's regional mosaic, some of its notable figures and others who were just as revealing, the natural environment, social patterns and political life. He was also unflagging in his encouragement of others. The contributors to this volume take his work as a departure point for original essays on a variety of 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Bolton, Geoffrey, 1931-
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
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| Subject |
National characteristics, Australian.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Macintyre, Stuart, 1947- editor
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Layman, Lenore, editor
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Gregory, Jenny (Jennifer Anne), editor
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| ISBN |
9781925495621 (electronic bk.) |
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1925495620 (electronic bk.) |
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