Description |
xvi, 303 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Introduction William Keith Hancock 1898-1988, historian -- 1. Italian ventures: Hancock on the Risorgimento -- Hancock and Italy -- 2. Full of hits and misses: a reappraisal of Hancock's Australia -- 3. Imperium et Libertas and Hancock's Problems of Nationality -- 4. Hancock and West Africa economic history: the survey and its successors -- 5. Thucydides amongst the Mandarins: Hancock and the World War II civil histories -- 6. Patriotism of place and race: Hancock on South Africa / Shula Marks and Saul Dubow -- 7. Rediscovering Australia: Hancock and the wool seminar -- Comment: woolly identities -- 8. Signposts to tracks?: Hancock and environmental history -- Comment: Tuscan dreaming -- 9. Recording the Australian experience: Hancock and the Australian Dictionary of Biography -- 10. History is about chaps: professional, national and gender identities in Hancock's autobiographies -- Comment: the silences of an autobiographies |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library |
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Signed by editor 2 copies. ANU |
Subject |
Hancock, W. K. (William Keith), 1898-1988.
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Historians -- Australia -- Biography.
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Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Author |
Low, D. A. (Donald Anthony), 1927-
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ISBN |
0522849385 |
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