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'Inga Clendinnen was a historian whose primary research interest was the exploration of the social conditions of extreme violence in different periods and societies. She was born Inga Vivienne Jewell, the youngest of four children in a working-class family in Geelong in 1934. She read English and history at the University of Melbourne, coming under the influence of Max Crawford, and earned a first-class degree in 1955. In that same year, at the age of twenty, she married John Clendinnen, a philosopher of science at the University of Melbourne. They had two sons. She was tutor in the history department at the University of Melbourne from 1955 to 1968. In 1969 she took up a post in the newly-founded La Trobe University, where she worked in the congenial company of colleagues open to global history informed by the social sciences.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Historical Studies vol. 48 no. 2 2017 12011745 2017 periodical issue

    'This issue of Australian Historical Studies opens with two articles that discuss the state of economic history in Australia. In their important overview, Simon Ville and Claire Wright argue that following ‘years in the wilderness, economic history is back in fashion’. Australian universities after World War II established separate departments of economic history, with the discipline serving to connect the social sciences and humanities. But over time, a rift occurred. As economic historians sought greater intellectual integration with mainstream economics, the ‘cultural turn’ took Australian historians in other directions. The closure of university economic history units in the 1990s and the impact of global economic events have, however, led to a revival of economic history. Ville and Wright trace these developments, and show how millennium economic history derives its strength through an interdisciplinary approach, including engagement with the digital humanities and the use of big data. Their prognosis for the future of economic history in Australia is optimistic.'  (Editorial introduction)

    2017
    pg. 280-282
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