Contributors to this collection of essays about Australian historian Geoffrey Bolton are colleagues, former students, and even his wife. The book opens with a biographical essay on his intellectual influences and his career. The next opening essay is by his wife Carol Bolton, touching on his love of archival research and his study of English literature. The rest of the essays address his research, his writing, and his public activity. Some specific subjects examined are biographical political writing in Australia, the evolution of Australian public history, Bolton’s environmental history, colonial hegemony and indigenous stratification, and the life of Deborah Hackett. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher, and commentator he enriched understanding of the country's regional mosaic, including some of its notable figures (and others who were just as revealing), the natural environment, social patterns, and political life. He was also unflagging in his encouragement of others. The contributors to this volume take his work as a departure point for their original essays on a variety of themes in Australian history. Contributors include Stuart Macintyre, Jenny Gregory, Lenore Layman, Carol Bolton, Mark McKenna, Graeme Davison, Carl Bridge, Alan Atkinson, Andrew Gaynor, Tom Griffiths, Tim Rowse, Lizzy Watt, Mary Anne Jebb and Pat Jalland. (Series: Australian History) [ Subject: Australian Studies, History, Biography, Anthropology]
