Geoffrey Blainey
Biographic Data
| ID | 139432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Blainey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Blainey |
| SIGNATURE | BLAINEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A History of Victoria
A History of Victoria is a lively account of the people, places and events that have shaped Victoria, from the arrival of the first Aboriginal peoples through to the present day. In his inimitable style, Geoffrey Blainey considers Victoria's transformation from rural state to urban society. He speculates on the contrasts between Melbourne and Sydney, and describes formative events in Victoria's history, including the exploits of Ned Kelly, the ri…
The Momentous Gold Rushes
Gold discoveries in Australia in 1851 and New Zealand in 1861 galvanised the economic development of Australasia and had spillover effects in Britain, in ship technology, and even in the trans‐Atlantic trade. The gold rushes quickly transformed economic, social, and political life. Moving around the continent in an anti‐clockwise direction, they were to help found the northern port cities that grew to service the gold seekers. While the major str…
Australia's History
This collective volume was compiled to greet the meeting of the International Congress of the Historical Sciences in Sydney in 2005. Nearly all the authors, some of whom are young, represent the wave of historians who, since the 1970s, have become absorbed in issues such as Aborigines and their plight, immigration and multiculturalism, racism, relations with Asia, national memorials and symbols, or urbanisation—themes about which they tend to thi…
A Brief History of the Human Race
Journal Article A Brief History of the Human Race Get access Geoffrey Blainey Geoffrey Blainey University of Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 488, September 2005, Pages 1068–1069, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei352 Published: 01 September 2005
The Great Seesaw
An argument for the existence of a mental see saw which in the last 250 years has affected a wide range of human attitudes and activities. The author argues that the present economic crisis has close
The Causes of War
Surrender Australia? Essays in the Study and Uses of History
Our Relations with China
Triumph of the Nomads
Cecil Rhodes
Triumph of the Nomads, A History of Aboriginal Australia
This is a review of Geoffrey Blainey's Triumph of the Nomads, a History of Aboriginal Australia (1976). Disciplines Anthropology | Social and Behavioral Sciences This review is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/anthro_papers/64 218 ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY tion in a Bolivian town, despite truly radical changes in social structure. Using simple diagrams to illustrate his analyses, Heath describes the changes in patronclie…
Triumph of the nomads
Sails of Doom
For more than thirty thousand years the aboriginals had been nomads. They maintained the tradition of wandering long after most people of the world had settled down to the sedentary life of garden, farm, village or town. Why they did not adopt the custom of cultivating plants and keeping herds is a puzzle. New Guinea had gardens and pigs, and several islands in Torres Strait grew vegetables in neat gardens, but the new way of life did not apparen…
The Prosperous Nomads
Aboriginals in most parts of Australia appear to have had an impressive standard of living at the time of the European invasion. But the window through which we see them is so smoky or misted that only with difficulty can we recognize the kind of abundance in which they lived. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Medicines and Drugs, Liquids and Cosmetics
The average Australian, adult and child, knew more about botany one thousand years ago than they know today. Knowledge of botany supplied them not only with much of their food but also with drugs and cosmetics and—in a drought—with water. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Birth and Death
Australia is said to have supported as many as 300,000 aboriginals before the first white settlers arrived. The aboriginals were widely dispersed then—more dispersed than is the Australian population today. Nearly every plain, tableland and valley was inhabited for at least part of the year. Every desert yielded food. Every district, even in drought, yielded raw material for making equipment. Amongst the areas which were closely settled were the …
Fire on the Lake
The lake lies on the hot plain in south-eastern Australia. The wide bed is edged by blunt cliffs, and from the centre of the lake you see the sun rise over a high dune of sand. The sand dunes form the eastern rim of the lake and follow the shore for perhaps fifteen miles. Seen in the sharpened shadows when the sun is low, or traced as an outline on the edge of the blue sky, the rim of sand and clay resembles a long defensive wall. It has for some…
The Hunters
Aboriginals travelled lightly, carrying few possessions, but our luggage is full of objects. Accordingly we tend to visualize the daily life of aboriginals mainly through the familiar objects which they manufactured. As curators of museums naturally prefer to display objects, and as a weapon is more likely to catch the imagination of spectators, weapons often typify our view of aboriginal society. Moreover they match our idea of a ‘savage society…
A Burning Continent
The eagerness with which aboriginals set fire to the country was noticed by the first Europeans who visited the south-east of the continent. Even when their ships lay well out to sea they saw the smoke and recorded it in their journals. What the smoke signified they could not at first tell. Perhaps it was the inhabitants’ way of signalling; perhaps they were cooking a large breakfast; perhaps the smoke came from fires started by lightning. Certai…
The Logic of Unending Travel
Aboriginals cocooned their landscape and daily life and human relationships with myth and make-believe, and for a long time that attitude fascinated the more tolerant scholars and disillusioned others. Aboriginals also had a deep understanding of so many conditions which affected their daily life. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm imp…
The Rising of the Seas
The aboriginals imported botanical and zoological knowledge—practical lore about plants and animals of which the average educated Australian is now ignorant. They made stone and wooden tools for the hunting, digging or preparing of food. They almost certainly possessed a variety of skills for catching fish and many techniques of tracking and hunting animals and birds. They knew how to make fire. They probably had considerable knowledge of plants …
Death of the Giants
In the 1830s the bones of a puzzling creature were discovered in a cave near Wellington, west of the Blue Mountains. Part of the jaw was carried to Sydney and shipped to London where the anatomist Sir Richard Owen concluded with some excitement that it belonged to an animal hitherto unknown to science: he named it the diprotodon.* A few years later, in 1847, a complete skeleton of a diprotodon was collected from the banks of a tributary of the Co…
Harvest of the Unploughed Plains
For several generations most European settlers who had opportunities of observing the traditional life of aboriginals came to clear conclusions about their diet. Aboriginals, they decided, were mainly flesh-eaters who occasionally ate fruit and vegetables. Thus the first European explorer in western Victoria, finding a bag in which aboriginal women carried food, looked inside and saw three snakes, three rats, some yabbies, about two pounds of a t…
A centenary history of the University of Melbourne
The Story of Australia’s People
Gold and Governors
(1961). Gold and Governors. Historical Studies: Australia and New Zealand: Vol. 9, No. 36, pp. 337-350
The gold rushes
(1962). The gold rushes: The year of decision. Historical Studies: Australia and New Zealand: Vol. 10, No. 38, pp. 129-140
The Rush That Never Ended. A History of Australian Mining
The Rush That Never Ended, a History of Australian Mining
Three decades after publication, The Rush that Never Ended provides an account of an important part of Australia's economic history. New chapters tell the story of the changes in mining in the last 20 years
Lost Causes of the Jameson Raid
Botany Bay or Gotham City
The Tyranny of Distance
The Rise of Broken Hill
A Theory of Mineral Discovery
The Rush That Never Ended. A History of Australian Mining
The Rush That Never Ended
The Causes of War
A Rejoinder
[A Theory of Mineral Discovery]
Sails of Doom
For more than thirty thousand years the aboriginals had been nomads. They maintained the tradition of wandering long after most people of the world had settled down to the sedentary life of garden, farm, village or town. Why they did not adopt the custom of cultivating plants and keeping herds is a puzzle. New Guinea had gardens and pigs, and several islands in Torres Strait grew vegetables in neat gardens, but the new way of life did not apparen…
The Prosperous Nomads
Aboriginals in most parts of Australia appear to have had an impressive standard of living at the time of the European invasion. But the window through which we see them is so smoky or misted that only with difficulty can we recognize the kind of abundance in which they lived. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Medicines and Drugs, Liquids and Cosmetics
The average Australian, adult and child, knew more about botany one thousand years ago than they know today. Knowledge of botany supplied them not only with much of their food but also with drugs and cosmetics and—in a drought—with water. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Birth and Death
Australia is said to have supported as many as 300,000 aboriginals before the first white settlers arrived. The aboriginals were widely dispersed then—more dispersed than is the Australian population today. Nearly every plain, tableland and valley was inhabited for at least part of the year. Every desert yielded food. Every district, even in drought, yielded raw material for making equipment. Amongst the areas which were closely settled were the …
Fire on the Lake
The lake lies on the hot plain in south-eastern Australia. The wide bed is edged by blunt cliffs, and from the centre of the lake you see the sun rise over a high dune of sand. The sand dunes form the eastern rim of the lake and follow the shore for perhaps fifteen miles. Seen in the sharpened shadows when the sun is low, or traced as an outline on the edge of the blue sky, the rim of sand and clay resembles a long defensive wall. It has for some…
The Hunters
Aboriginals travelled lightly, carrying few possessions, but our luggage is full of objects. Accordingly we tend to visualize the daily life of aboriginals mainly through the familiar objects which they manufactured. As curators of museums naturally prefer to display objects, and as a weapon is more likely to catch the imagination of spectators, weapons often typify our view of aboriginal society. Moreover they match our idea of a ‘savage society…
A Burning Continent
The eagerness with which aboriginals set fire to the country was noticed by the first Europeans who visited the south-east of the continent. Even when their ships lay well out to sea they saw the smoke and recorded it in their journals. What the smoke signified they could not at first tell. Perhaps it was the inhabitants’ way of signalling; perhaps they were cooking a large breakfast; perhaps the smoke came from fires started by lightning. Certai…
The Logic of Unending Travel
Aboriginals cocooned their landscape and daily life and human relationships with myth and make-believe, and for a long time that attitude fascinated the more tolerant scholars and disillusioned others. Aboriginals also had a deep understanding of so many conditions which affected their daily life. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm imp…
The Rising of the Seas
The aboriginals imported botanical and zoological knowledge—practical lore about plants and animals of which the average educated Australian is now ignorant. They made stone and wooden tools for the hunting, digging or preparing of food. They almost certainly possessed a variety of skills for catching fish and many techniques of tracking and hunting animals and birds. They knew how to make fire. They probably had considerable knowledge of plants …
Death of the Giants
In the 1830s the bones of a puzzling creature were discovered in a cave near Wellington, west of the Blue Mountains. Part of the jaw was carried to Sydney and shipped to London where the anatomist Sir Richard Owen concluded with some excitement that it belonged to an animal hitherto unknown to science: he named it the diprotodon.* A few years later, in 1847, a complete skeleton of a diprotodon was collected from the banks of a tributary of the Co…
Harvest of the Unploughed Plains
For several generations most European settlers who had opportunities of observing the traditional life of aboriginals came to clear conclusions about their diet. Aboriginals, they decided, were mainly flesh-eaters who occasionally ate fruit and vegetables. Thus the first European explorer in western Victoria, finding a bag in which aboriginal women carried food, looked inside and saw three snakes, three rats, some yabbies, about two pounds of a t…
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