Keith Hancock : the legacies of an historian

著者

• Low, D. A. (Donald Anthony)

書誌事項

Keith Hancock : the legacies of an historian

edited by D.A. Low

Melbourne University Press, 2001

• : [pbk.]

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Sir Keith Hancock KBE (1898-1984) was the most distinguished scholar in the humanities and social sciences to have been born and to have worked in Australia. He was a graduate of the University of Melbourne, a Rhodes Scholar and the first Australian Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He successively held History chairs at the universities of Adelaide, Birmingham, Oxford and London and at the Australian National University. Aged 32 he published his Australia (London, 1930), still the single most striking commentary on this country, many of whose aphorisms have percolated through into numerous other writings. Aged 74 he published his last major work, Discovering Monaro- A Study of Man s Impact on the Environment (Cambridge, 1972), which was arguably the primary fillip to the study of Australian environmental history to this day. The main chapters of this book discuss, largely in sequence, the major books that he wrote, the fields with which he dealt, and the directions these have taken since he did so. They revisit an extraordinary series of creative achievements while providing an introduction to the work of an exceptional Australian scholar. The book wi

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB2302142X
• ISBN:
  • 0522849385
• 出版国コード: at
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Carlton South, Vic.
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 303 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 994.04092
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Hancock, W. K. (William Keith), 1898-1988
  • LCSH : Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography
  • LCSH : Historians -- Australia -- Biography