Geoffrey Blainey | Academic Influence

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Geoffrey Blainey

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#126

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Economic History

#31

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#37

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Geoffrey Blainey's Degrees

Bachelors Economic History University of Melbourne
Masters Economic History University of Melbourne
PhD Economic History University of Melbourne

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According to Wikipedia, Geoffrey Norman Blainey, is an Australian historian, academic, best selling author and commentator. He is noted for having written authoritative texts on the economic and social history of Australia, including The Tyranny of Distance. He has published over 40 books, including wide-ranging histories of the world and of Christianity. He has often appeared in newspapers and on television. He held chairs in economic history and history at the University of Melbourne for over 20 years. In the 1980s, he was visiting professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University. He received the 1988 Britannica Award for 'exceptional excellence in the dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of mankind', the first historian to receive that award and was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2000.

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Geoffrey Blainey's Published Works

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The causes of war (1973) (586)
The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History (1969) (433)
All for Australia (1984) (139)
Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Ancient Australia (1976) (108)
The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining.@@@The Peaks of Lyell. (1971) (77)
A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football (2003) (71)
Surrender Australia? Essays in the Study and Uses of History: Geoffrey Blainey and Asian Immigration@@@Making History (1985) (57)
Lost Causes of the Jameson Raid (1965) (51)
A centenary history of the University of Melbourne (1957) (49)
The Peaks of Lyell (1954) (43)
Triumph Of The Nomads (1976) (43)
A Land Half Won (1980) (39)
The rise of Broken Hill (1968) (32)
Gold and Governors (1961) (30)
A History of Victoria (2007) (28)
Black Kettle and Full Moon : Daily Life in a Vanished Australia (2003) (27)
A Theory of Mineral Discovery: Australia in the Nineteenth Century (1970) (26)
A shorter history of Australia (1994) (26)
THE MOMENTOUS GOLD RUSHES (2010) (25)
The British Empire in Australia : an economic history, 1834-1939 (1943) (23)
Fire on the Lake (1975) (20)
Gold and paper, 1858-1982: A history of the National Bank of Australasia Ltd (1983) (17)
This land is all horizons: Australian fears and visions (2001) (17)
Mines in the spinifex;: The story of Mount Isa Mines (1970) (17)
Paradise is a Bazaar (1973) (15)
A Very Short History of the World (2004) (14)
Symbols of Australia (1980) (13)
Gold and paper : a history of the National Bank of Australasia Limited (1958) (11)
The Story of Australia’s People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia (2015) (11)
Our Side of the Country: The Story of Victoria (1984) (11)
The Golden Mile (1993) (11)
Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Aboriginal Australia (1977) (10)
Jumping over the wheel (1993) (9)
The great seesaw: A new view of the western world, 1750-2000 (1988) (8)
Herbert Hoovers Forgotten Years (1963) (8)
The Great Seesaw (1988) (7)
Technology In Australian History (1964) (7)
Blainey, eye on Australia: Speeches and essays of Geoffrey Blainey (1991) (6)
A Short History of the World (2000) (6)
The gold rushes: The year of decision (1962) (6)
The steel master;: A life of Essington Lewis (1971) (6)
The Blainey View (1982) (5)
Botany Bay or Gotham City (1968) (5)
A Short History of Christianity (2012) (4)
The Centenary of Australia's Federation: What Should We Celebrate? (2000) (4)
Scissors and paste in local history (1954) (4)
The Peace that Passeth Understanding (1973) (3)
Australia's History: Themes and Debates (2007) (3)
Australia, New Zealand and Federation, 1883–1901 (2002) (3)
The Return of The Noble Savage (1988) (2)
Our Relations with China: A Backward and Forward Glance (1984) (2)
A reply: ‘i came, i shaw . . .’ (1968) (2)
[A Theory of Mineral Discovery]: A Rejoinder (1973) (2)
Across A Red World (1968) (2)
The role of economic interests in Australian federation: A reply to professor R. S. Parker (1950) (2)
When the Bubble Burst (2013) (2)
A Brief History of the Human Race (2005) (2)
The Cargo Cult in Mineral Policy (1968) (2)
A Short History of the Twentieth Century (2006) (2)
History of a pummelled landscape (1977) (2)
Riding Australia's Big Dipper (2006) (2)
The Abacus of Power (1973) (1)
The Future of Europe (2012) (1)
Australia’s Pacific War (1988) (1)
Essay on distance (1975) (1)
While Waterbirds Fight (1973) (1)
History is but a fable agreed upon (2008) (1)
The Seesaw: A First View (1988) (1)
A Pocket Watch for Progress (1988) (1)
War, Peace and Neutrality (1973) (1)
And Shorter Wars (1973) (1)
A Burning Continent (1975) (1)
Australia and New Zealand Bank: The Bank of Australasia and the Union Bank Of Australia Limited, 1828–1951. By S. J. Butlin. London and Melbourne, Longmans, Green & Company, Ltd., 1961. Pp. 459. A£2/5s (1963) (1)
A Brief History of BHP Billiton (2010) (1)
Rise of the Counter-Culture (1988) (1)
The Best is Yet to Be (1988) (1)
A Short History of the 20th Century (2005) (1)
The success, so far, of England [Book Review] (2016) (0)
A History of Victoria: Preface (2013) (0)
The Hard-Rock Men: Cornish Immigrants and the North American Mining Frontier. (1975) (0)
Harvest of the Unploughed Plains (1975) (0)
A History of Victoria: ‘My Lord the Workingman’ (2013) (0)
A History of Victoria: Short Chronology of Victorian History (2013) (0)
A Day that Lives in Infamy (1988) (0)
Aims and Arms (1973) (0)
Landmarks in Banking History (1962) (0)
Tidal wave or choppy seas: The global implications of the recession (1993) (0)
The scapegoat theory of international war (1971) (0)
A History of Victoria: The Silver Stick (2013) (0)
The Great War and Other Half-Shocks (1988) (0)
A History of Victoria: Whirlwind in Spring Street (2013) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS, RESEARCH NOTES AND IDEAS (2000) (0)
A History of Victoria: Hope, Depression, Fire and War (2013) (0)
N. Wace and B. Lovett, Yankee Maritime Activities and the Early History of Australia (Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1973), pp. xiv + 131: $4.50 (1974) (0)
Is Australia going West (2012) (0)
A Calendar of War (1973) (0)
The Myth of Pearl Harbours (1973) (0)
Vendetta of the Black Sea (1973) (0)
Sails of Doom (1975) (0)
Mining-And Undermining (1969) (0)
Oswald Pryor. Australia’s Little Cornwall. Adelaide, Rigby Limited, 1963. Pp. 191. 25s. (1963) (0)
Godzone: 7) The New Australia - a Legend of the Lake (1967) (0)
Will the West Decline (1988) (0)
Distance - A key to Australia's economic dilemma (2007) (0)
Foreword (2018) (0)
Northern exposure. by Geoffrey Blainey (1993) (0)
Vermilion and gold : vignettes of Chinese life in Ballarat (1985) (0)
A History of Victoria: A Golden Ant Hill (2013) (0)
Oil Crisis: A Turning Point (1988) (0)
"THE RICHEST HOLE ON EARTH:" A HISTORY OF THE BING- HAM COPPER MINE. By Leonard J. Arlington and Gary B. Hansen (2011) (0)
The Tasmanians: Outline of a Puzzle (1975) (0)
The Gay Provider: The Myer Story [Book Review] (1962) (0)
A Turban of Feathers (2013) (0)
A History of Victoria: Sources (2013) (0)
Overcoming southern apathy towards Australia's northern regions. by Geoffrey Blainey (1992) (0)
Death of the Giants (1975) (0)
The King is Dying: The Swing against technology (1988) (0)
The Industrial "Revolution" and its Aftermath: The British, US and Japanese Empires (2012) (0)
The Logic of Unending Travel (1975) (0)
I have attempted to list all the editions of Geoffrey Blainey's books, and in all formats produced, which in some cases has included motion pictures and videorecordings. (2001) (0)
The Beckoning Moon (1988) (0)
Medicines and Drugs, Liquids and Cosmetics (1975) (0)
The Puzzle of The Seesaw (1988) (0)
Australia on the skids. by Geoffrey Blainey (1993) (0)
A History of Victoria: The Jolting Merry-Go-Round (2013) (0)
BLAINEY, GEOFFREY NORMAN (1930-) (1979) (0)
The Gunyah lifestyle: poor health and no books. by Geoffrey Blainey (1991) (0)
A History of Victoria: Preface to the First Edition (2013) (0)
The Long Economic Waves (1988) (0)
The Rising of the Seas (1975) (0)
The Prosperous Nomads (1975) (0)
The Real Education Revolution (2009) (0)
The Steel Master Essington Lewis (1974) (0)
Western Australia in fourteen volumes (1981) (0)
A History of Victoria: Sunshine and Moonshine (2013) (0)
Reading 5.3 Paradise Is a Bazaar (2017) (0)
A History of Victoria: One in Ten Thousand (2013) (0)
Death-Watch and Scapegoat Wars (1973) (0)
Brave new themes (1999) (0)
A History of Victoria: Who Am I? (2013) (0)
Mabo in black and white. by Geoffrey Blainey (1994) (0)
Voyage to the ‘Ocean of Misery’ (1988) (0)
Birth and Death (1975) (0)
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War (1973) (0)
A History of Victoria: The Rise and Fall of Albert the Great (2013) (0)
Cold and White: The Role of Climate and Race (1988) (0)
A History of Victoria: Australia Felix (2013) (0)
A pre-eminent Victorian [Book Review] (1995) (0)
A History of Victoria: The Horse and Its Conquerors (2013) (0)
The Magic of New-Found Lands (1988) (0)
The Mystery of Wide Wars (1973) (0)
The Tyranny of Distance Lives (2007) (0)
A History of Victoria: Koala, Growling Frog, Drought and Fire (2013) (0)
A History of Victoria: Conversions (2013) (0)
A History of Victoria: The New Victorians: Life, Work and Play (2013) (0)
Myths of the Nuclear Era (1988) (0)
A History of Victoria: A Long Race: Melbourne and Sydney (2013) (0)
Our home front, 1939-45 (1995) (0)
Past and Future Wars (2019) (0)
The Rush That Never Ended. A History of Australian Mining.@@@Old Walhalla. Portrait of a Gold Town. (1964) (0)
Divided nation. by Geoffrey Blainey (1992) (0)
Reading 2.7 Power, Culprits, and Arms (2017) (0)
Temple of The Wild (1988) (0)
War as an Accident (1973) (0)
A History of Victoria: A Bulging City (2013) (0)
Trade Routes and Rituals (1975) (0)
'Tasmania, Tasmania!' The Birth of a Book (2008) (0)
War Chests and Pulse Beats (1973) (0)

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