The Fuss That Never Ended The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey

by Gare, Deborah; Bolton, Geoffrey; Macintyre, Stuart; Stannage, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780522850345
• ISBN10: 0522850340
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-02
• Publisher: Melbourne University Press

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)
Stuart Macintyre
Half a Determinist: Blainey and the Mechanics of History	15	(13)
Graeme Davison
The Tyranny of Distance Revisited	28	(11)
Geoffrey Bolton
Triumph of the Colonists	39	(14)
Tim Rowse
Light Green, Dark Green	53	(14)
Tom Griffiths
A Man's World?	67	(12)
Joanne Scott
The Steven Seagal Factor: The Corporate Histories	79	(11)
Bridget Griffen-Foley
White Ghost of Empire	90	(12)
Deborah Gare
The Politics of Race	102	(12)
Andrew Markus
From the Frontier to the Gulf	114	(11)
Ian Hodges
Sport Matters	125	(11)
Tom Stannage (with David Major)
My Lord the Workingman?	136	(12)
Charlie Fox
The Media Game	148	(9)
Morag Fraser
The Melbourne School of History: Memories and Reflections	157	(16)
Hugh Stretton, John Mulvaney, John Poynter, Ken Inglis
Notes	173	(21)
Comprehensive Bibliography of Works by Blainey	194	(23)
Grace Giannini
Index	217