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The Tyranny of Distance

The Tyranny of Distance

How Distance Shaped Australia's History

by Geoffrey Blainey
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/12/2001
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'One of the most illuminating books ever written on Australian history.'-The BulletinIn "The Tyranny of Distance", an Australian classic that has been continuously in print since 1967, Geoffrey Blainey describes how distance and isolation have been central to Australia's history and in shaping its national identity, and will continue to form its future. Fully revised and updated, this Macmillan edition examines how distance and isolation, while tamed, remain vital to Australia's development, even in the twenty-first-century 'global village'.
ISBN:
9780732911171
9780732911171
Category:
Australasian & Pacific history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-12-2001
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
432
Dimensions (mm):
34x156x235mm
Weight:
0.52kg
Geoffrey Blainey

Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's most significant and popular historians. He has written some 36 full-length books including The Tyranny of Distance, Triumph of the Nomads, Black Kettle and Full Moon, A Short History of the 20th Century, Sea of Dangers, A Short History of Christianity and the best-selling A Short History of the World.

Professor Blainey held chairs in economic history and then in plain history at the University of Melbourne for 21 years. He was a delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention and also chaired various Commonwealth government bodies, including the Australia Council, the Literature Board, the Australia-China Council, and the National Council for the Centenary of Federation. He is one of the few Australians whose biography appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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