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About Geoffrey Blainey
Australian historian, academic, best-selling author and commentator
Geoffrey Blainey is an Australian historian, academic, best-selling author, and commentator. He is known for his work on Australian history and for bringing historical ideas to a wide public audience. Blainey has written extensively on Australia and on the ways history shapes public life. Alongside his academic work, he has built a large readership as an author and public commentator, and his writing is often associated with broad historical interpretation rather than narrow specialist study.
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Books by Geoffrey Blainey
A History of Victoria
2006
A Short History of the World
2001
A short history of Christianity
2014
A short history of the 20th century
2006