Blainey, Geoffrey Norman (1930 - )

Summary

Geoffrey Blainey has written a large number of books, including The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining (1963), The Steel Master: A Life of Essington Lewis (1971) and Jumping over the Wheel (1993).

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Chronology

2007

Award - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

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Published resources

Books

• Blainey, Geoffrey, The Peaks of Lyell (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1954), 310 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Johns and Waygood Limited: one hundred years, 1856-1956 (Melbourne: Johns and Waygood, 1956), 72 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, The rise and decline of the West Coast (Hobart: Government Printer, 1956). Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, A Centenary History of the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957). Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Mines in the spinifex: the story of Mount Isa Mines (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1960), 242 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, The rush that never ended: a history of Australian mining (Parkville: Melbourne University Press, 1963), 369 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, A history of Camberwell (Brisbane: Jacaranda Press in association with the Camberwell City Council, 1964), 104 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1966). Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, The Rise of Broken Hill (Melbourne: Macmillan of Australia, 1968), 184 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, The steel master: a life of Essington Lewis (South Melbourne: Macmillan of Australia, 1971), 217 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Triumph of the Nomads: a history of ancient Australia (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1975), 285 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Pharmacy 40,000 years ago: an ancient Australian profession (Melbourne: Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria, 1977), 8 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Interstate rivalries, a historian's view (Glen Iris, Victoria: Alfred Deakin Lecture Trust, 1981), 24 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, The Blainey View (Melbourne: Macmillan Australia, Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1982), 155 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, A Land Half Won (South Melbourne: Sun Books, 1983), 388 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Gold and paper 1858-1982: a history of the National Bank of Australasia (South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1983), 354 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Our side of the country: the story of Victoria (North Ryde: Methuen Haynes, 1984), 250 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, The great seesaw: a new view of the Western World 1750-2000 (South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1988), 355 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Australian universities: some fashions and faults (Bundoora, Victoria: Seminar on the Sociology of Culture, La Trobe University, 1989), 14 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Odd Fellows: a history of IOOF Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991), 160 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Blainey, eye on Australia: speeches and essays of Geoffrey Blainey (Melbourne: Schwarz & Wilkinson, 1991), 272 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, The Golden Mile (St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1993), 184 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, Jumping over the wheel (St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1993), 336 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, A Shorter History of Australia (Port Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1994), 251 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, White gold: the story of Alcoa of Australia (St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1997), 264 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, In our time (Melbourne: Information Australia, 1999), 194 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, A History of the AMP 1848-1998 (St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1999), 352 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, A Short History of the World (Ringwood, Victoria: Viking, 2000`), 669 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey; Olver, Norman H., The University of Melbourne: a centenary portrait (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1956), 176 pp. Details
• Wadham, Sir Samuel, Selected addresses / with a biographical study by G. Blainey (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1956), 91 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Blainey, Geoffrey; G. Smith, Ann, 'Lewis, Essington (1881-1961)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 10 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 87-92. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100084b.htm. Details

Edited Books

• Blainey, Geoffrey ed., If I remember rightly: the memoirs of W. S. Robinson, 1876-1963 (Melbourne: Cheshire, 1967), 234 pp. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey ed., Greater Britain, Charles Dilke visits her new lands 1866 & 1867 (North Ryde: Methuen Haynes, 1985), 199 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Blainey, Geoffrey, 'Reverberations of Perpetual Change: technology's leads and lags', BHP Journal, 2 (1981), 8-15. Details
• Blainey, Geoffrey, 'A Brief History of BHP Billiton', Journal of Australasian Mining History, 8 (2010), 23-35. Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/108475821. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q593424. Details
• 'Blainey, Geoffrey (1930-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-458692. Details
• 'Awarded honorary LLD, 2007 [Citation provided]', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_b.html. Details
• Wark, I. W.; and Ellis, E. G., 'Maurice Alan Edgar Mawby 1904-197', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (1) (1980), 104-128. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9800510104. Details