Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC (born 11 March 1930), is a prominent Australian historian and commentator with a wide international audience. He is said to be the “most prolific, wide-ranging, inventive, and - in the 1980s and 1990s - most controversial of Australia’s living historians. ” Between 1967 and 2007 he was chairman or member of a wide range of the Australian Government’s councils, boards and committees.

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  • Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC (born 11 March 1930), is a prominent Australian historian and commentator with a wide international audience. He is said to be the “most prolific, wide-ranging, inventive, and - in the 1980s and 1990s - most controversial of Australia’s living historians. ” Between 1967 and 2007 he was chairman or member of a wide range of the Australian Government’s councils, boards and committees. His name sometimes appears in lists of the most influential Australians, past or present. Blainey was born in Melbourne and raised in a series of Victorian country towns before attending Wesley College and the University of Melbourne. While at university he was editor of Farrago, the newspaper of the University of Melbourne Student Union. He was appointed to a teaching post at the University of Melbourne in 1962, becoming Professor of Economic History in 1968, Professor of History in 1977, and then Dean of Melbourne's Faculty of Arts in 1982. From 1994 to 1998 Blainey was foundation Chancellor at the University of Ballarat.
  • Geoffrey Blainey AC, né le 11 mars 1930 à Melbourne, est un historien australien. Il a exercé une profonde influence sur l'historiographie australienne.
  • Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC 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 e A Short History of the Twentieth Century . Ele é proeminente em círculos acadêmicos como um comentarista político conservadorista. 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 premiado do o 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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  • Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC (born 11 March 1930), is a prominent Australian historian and commentator with a wide international audience. He is said to be the “most prolific, wide-ranging, inventive, and - in the 1980s and 1990s - most controversial of Australia’s living historians. ” Between 1967 and 2007 he was chairman or member of a wide range of the Australian Government’s councils, boards and committees.
  • Geoffrey Blainey AC, né le 11 mars 1930 à Melbourne, est un historien australien. Il a exercé une profonde influence sur l'historiographie australienne.
  • Geoffrey Norman Blainey AC 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 e A Short History of the Twentieth Century . Ele é proeminente em círculos acadêmicos como um comentarista político conservadorista. 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.
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