The Tyranny Of Distance. How Distance Shaped Australia's History

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: Reprint

Description: 413 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The Classic Account Of How Australia's Geographical Remoteness Has Been Central To Shaping Our History And Identity-and How It Will Continue To Form Our Future.

Publishers Description: One of the most illuminating books ever written on Australian history. - The BulletinIn "The Tyranny of Distance", an Australian classic that has been continuously in print since 1967, Geoffrey Blainey describes how distance and isolation have been central to Australias history and in shaping its national identity, and will continue to form its future. Fully revised and updated, this Macmillan edition examines how distance and isolation, while tamed, remain vital to Australias development, even in the twenty-first-century global village.Author InformationGeoffrey Blainey has been Professor of Economic History and Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, and Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard. His other books include "Triumph of the Nomads", "A Land Half Won" and "Our Side of the Country". He lives in Melbourne.

ISBN: 9780732911171