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Geoffrey Blainey
Australian historian
Geoffrey Norman Blainey, AC, FAHA, FASSA (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, best selling author and commentator.
Blainey is noted for his authoritative texts on the economic and social history of Australia, including The Tyranny of Distance.[1] He has published over 40 books, including wide-ranging histories of the world and of Christianity.
He has often appeared in newspapers and on television.[2][3][4]
Blainey held chairs in economic history and history at the University of Melbourne for over 20 years.[2] In the 1980s, he was visiting professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University,[3] and received the 1988 Britannica Award for 'exceptional excellence in the dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of mankind', the first historian to receive that award[5] and was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2000.