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Edmund Barton: The one man for the job
This is the story of how an easy-going Sydney politician, with a reputation for enjoying the pleasures of the table and a fondness for cricket, became possessed by one enduring enthusiasm. That passion, maintained across almost two decades, was to make a new country from a collection of British colonies.
A Fine Country to Starve in
First published in 1972. Reissue with a new introduction of an account of the Depression years of 1929-1933 in Western Australia and the link with secessionism. With a bibliography, index, and sepia illustrations. The author is professor of history at Edith Cowan University in Perth and general editor of the 'Oxford History of Australia'.
The Fuss that Never Ended
It is time to reassess the work of Geoffrey Blainey, and consider his role in Australian history, politics and public life. Geoffrey Blainey has steered Australian history into the nation's conversation. No one would dispute that he is a courageous public intellectual, a writer of rare grace and a master storyteller. And he has indeed provoked a rare fuss, both public and professional, with some of his comments on Asian immigration and Aboriginal land rights. Blainey has challenged the academic history profession, not only with his ideas but also by his practice. A brilliant student, he looked set for Oxford but chose instead the austere west coast of Tasmania for his postgraduate research. ...
The Oxford History of Australia
The Middle Way covers the sweep of Australian history from the Fall of Singapore to the Keating Years.
GB
Geoffrey Bolton taught at Summer Fields for more than forty years. There were few boys at the school between 1919 and 1960 on whom he did not have a profound effect. Many were terrified by him, many were inspired; not a few were both. Here are some boyhood memories: "The only memory that I have of G. Bolton is that he was extremely fierce and all the boys were terrified of him. He looked like a skeleton as he was gassed in the First War." "How that gaunt figure dominated my five years! I loved and revered him, and was terribly afraid of him." "GB was very odd to look at, but I suspect that in other ways he was dead straight." In this brief biography, Nicholas Aldridge, himself a former pupil of G.B., attempts to discover the key to what made him tick.
A Historian for All Seasons
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.
Edmund Barton
This biography of Edmund Barton shows how the easy-going Sydney politician, with a reputation for enjoying the pleasures of the table and a fondness for cricket, became possessed by one enduring enthusiasm: to make a new country from a collection of British colonies.
