Historian for All Seasons, A: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton

Stuart Macintyre, Lenore Layman, Jenny Gregory (eds.)

ISBN 10: 1925495604 / ISBN 13: 9781925495607

Published by Monash University Publishing, 2017

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AUSTRALIANAGeoffrey 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 countryâ 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, Andrea Gaynor, Tom Griffiths, Tim Rowse, Lizzy Watt, Mary Anne Jebb and Pat Jalland.Signed by Authors (inscription). Bookplate on inside cover. xx, 345 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm Bolton, G. C. (Geoffrey Curgenven), 1931-2015 Festschriften -- Australia Essays Australia -- History Australian #290624 Macintyre, Stuart, 1947-2021, editor Layman, Lenore, editor Gregory, Jenny, editor Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.

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• Title: Historian for All Seasons, A: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton
• Publisher: Monash University Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925495604
• ISBN 13: 9781925495607
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: FINE!
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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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.