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Mar 11, 1930 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 94 years old
Australian historian
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About Geoffrey Blainey
- Geoffrey Norman Blainey (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, philanthropist and commentator with a wide international audience.
- 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 35 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 dissemination of knowledge and was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2000.He was once described by professor Graeme Davison as the "most prolific, wide-ranging, inventive, and, in the 1980s and 1990s, most controversial of Australia's living historians".
- He has been chairman or member of a wide range of Australian Government and other institutional councils, boards and committees, including the Australia Council, the University of Ballarat, the Australia-China Council, the Commonwealth Literary Fund and the Australian War Memorial.
- He chaired the National Council for the Centenary of Federation.
- His name sometimes appears in lists of the most influential Australians, past or present.
- The National Trust lists Blainey as one of Australia's "Living Treasures".
- He currently serves on the boards of philanthropic bodies, including the Ian Potter Foundation since 1991 and the Deafness Foundation Trust since 1993, and is patron of others. Biographer Geoffrey Bolton argues that he has played multiple roles as an Australian historian: He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a pioneer in the neglected field of Australian business history....He produced during the 1960s and 1970s a number of surveys of Australian history in which explanation was organized around the exploration of the impact of the single factor (distance, mining, pre-settlement Aboriginal society)....
- Blainey next turned to the rhythms of global history in the industrial period....
- Because of his authority as a historian, he was increasingly in demand as a commentator on Australian public affairs.
