biography
| name: |
Blainey, Geoffrey Norman
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1930– )
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| biography:
| Social historian, born in Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. He studied at Melbourne University, where he became professor of economic history (emeritus since 1988). In 1966 The Tyranny of Distance showed how geographical isolation had shaped the history and the people of Australia. Triumph of the Nomads (1975) and A Land Half Won (1980) completed his trilogy, A Vision of Australian History. He reached a wide popular audience through his books, as well as a television programme The Blainey View, and became well known in the 1980s for his controversial views on immigration to Australia. |
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