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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

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rdfs:comment	Geoffrey Blainey AC, né le 11 mars 1930 à Melbourne, est un historien australien. Il a exercé une profonde influence sur l'historiographie australienne. (fr) 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 (en) 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. (pt)
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