Richard Allsop Richard Allsop i(A88649 works by)
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1 4 y separately published work icon Geoffrey Blainey : Writer, Historian, Controversialist Richard Allsop , Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2019 17279125 2019 single work biography

'Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia’s greatest living historian, a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the country’s past as The Tyranny of Distance and Triumph of the Nomads.

'However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian immigration triggered a major political controversy. In turn, the reaction of his critics raised fundamental questions about freedom of speech and set the scene for the ‘history wars’ fought out in Australia over the past three decades.

'Many academic historians were amongst Blainey’s critics. After 1984, Blainey became stereotyped as a ‘conservative historian’ and thus outside the bounds of academic history, yet much of Blainey’s historical writing, both in method and outlook, has been far from conservative.

'Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist challenges simplistic descriptions of Blainey’s work. It sheds an important light not just on Blainey’s career, but also on the past and present practice of history in Australia.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Making the 'Little Digger' Dull Richard Allsop , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 50 no. 1-2 2006; (p. 113-114)

— Review of Billy Hughes : Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of the Australian Labor Party Aneurin Hughes , 2005 single work biography
1 An Unsatisfactory Life Richard Allsop , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , October vol. 49 no. 10 2005; (p. 87-88)

— Review of The Life and Death of Harold Holt Thomas R. Frame , 2005 single work biography
1 Reappraising Curtin Richard Allsop , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 49 no. 6 2005; (p. 83-84)

— Review of Curtin's Gift : Reinterpreting Australia's Greatest Prime Minister John K. Edwards , 2005 single work biography
1 Lunch with Jennifer Byrne Richard Allsop , 2005 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 3 May vol. 123 no. 6468 2005; (p. 10)
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