Geoffrey Blainey grew up in country Australia and his love for this land and its people is stronger than ever as he approaches his 90th birthday. His memoir Before I Forget is a window into the early ...

William H. McNeill is the author of several books, including "Plagues and Peoples" and "A History of the Human Community: 1500 to the Present." “In human history, almost nothing is preordained.” These ...

Don't miss my interview with Australia's greatest historian on the 250th anniversary this week of Captain James Cook landing at Botany Bay. Why are politicians ashamed of this history-changing event?

Eschewing the traditional compendium of names, dates, battles and lists, Australian historian Blainey (The Causes of War) offers a compact human history—about how our species evolved, coped, adapted ...

Today Blainey is 86, weighed down with honours. Back then, he was a rather dashing reader in economic history at the University of Melbourne with a knack for reaching non-academic audiences: Monash ...

The student and his teacher would become Australia’s most prolific and successful historians of the postwar era. As Blainey felt eternally indebted to Clark, so Clark retained enormous affection and ...

Geoffrey Blainey, The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia, Viking, $49.99.

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