Geoffrey Blainey

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Geoffrey Blainey AC, né le 11 mars 1930 à Melbourne, est un historien australien. Il a exercé une profonde influence sur l'historiographie australienne. rdf:langString

Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC FAHA FASSA (born 11 March 1930) 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 rdf:langString

Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC (11 de março de 1930, Austrália) é um historiador, escritor e professor australiano, atuando nas universidades de Harvard e Melbourne. Blainey tornou-se famoso ao escrever o livro A Short History of the World (no Brasil: "Uma Breve História do Mundo") e A Short History of the Twentieth Century (no Brasil: "Uma Breve História do século XX"). Ele é proeminente em círculos acadêmicos como um comentarista político conservador. rdf:langString

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rdf:langString Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC FAHA FASSA (born 11 March 1930) 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. He was once described by Graeme Davison as the "most prolific, wide-ranging, inventive, and, in the 1980s and 1990s, most controversial of Australia's living historians". He has been chairman or member of the Australia Council, the University of Ballarat, the Australia-China Council, the Commonwealth Literary Fund and the Australian War Memorial. He chaired the National Council for the Centenary of Federation. His name sometimes appears in lists of the most influential Australians, past or present. The National Trust lists Blainey as one of Australia's "Living Treasures". He served on the boards of philanthropic bodies, including the Ian Potter Foundation (1991-2014) and the Deafness Foundation Trust since 1993, and is patron of others. Biographer Geoffrey Bolton in 1999 argues that he has played multiple roles as an Australian historian: He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a pioneer in the neglected field of Australian business history ... He produced during the 1960s and 1970s a number of surveys of Australian history in which explanation was organized around the exploration of the impact of the single factor (distance, mining, pre-settlement Aboriginal society) ... Blainey next turned to the rhythms of global history in the industrial period.... Because of his authority as a historian, he was increasingly in demand as a commentator on Australian public affairs. In 2006, the Melbourne historian John Hirst made his assessment: "Geoffrey Blainey, the most prolific and popular of our historians". Alan Atkinson, author of a three-volume history of Australia, called Blainey "our most eminent living historian" in a long review that mixes criticism with praise.

rdf:langString Geoffrey Blainey AC, né le 11 mars 1930 à Melbourne, est un historien australien. Il a exercé une profonde influence sur l'historiographie australienne.

rdf:langString Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC (11 de março de 1930, Austrália) é um historiador, escritor e professor australiano, atuando nas universidades de Harvard e Melbourne. Blainey tornou-se famoso ao escrever o livro A Short History of the World (no Brasil: "Uma Breve História do Mundo") e A Short History of the Twentieth Century (no Brasil: "Uma Breve História do século XX"). Ele é proeminente em círculos acadêmicos como um comentarista político conservador. Blainey nasceu em Melbourne e foi criado em uma série de cidades de condados de Victoria, antes de frequentar o Wesley College e a Universidade de Melbourne. Enquanto ainda frequentava a universidade, foi um editor de Farrago o jornal da União dos Estudantes da Universidade de Melbourne. Ele foi nomeado para ensinar na Universidade de Melbourne em 1962, tornando-se professor de História Econômica em 1968, professor de História em 1977 e então, Reitor da Faculdade de Artes de Melbourne em 1982. De 1994 a 1998, Blainey foi o Chanceler fundador da Universidade de Ballarat. Geoffrey Blainey foi agraciado com o premio 'New York International Britannica Award' "pelo seu excelente trabalho na disseminação do conhecimento em favor da humanidade". Também foi premiado com as honras da Companhia da Ordem da Austrália, no Dia da Austrália. No ano seguinte, foi premiado com a Medalha Centenária. Blainey já escreveu mais de 32 livros durante toda a sua vida, sendo A Short History of the World um bestseller na Inglaterra e nos Estados Unidos.

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