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The Murdoch Ethos: Essays in Australian history in honour of Foundation Professor Geoffrey Bolton
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The Murdoch Ethos: Essays in Australian history in honour of Foundation Professor Geoffrey Bolton

R. Frances, B. Scates, G.C. Bolton and Murdoch University
Murdoch University
1989
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Abstract

Reviewing Geoffrey Bolton's life and work at Murdoch is rather like those first European attempts to describe Australia's platypus: what a complex, curious and extraordinarily energetic creature this is. Like the platypus Geoffrey Bolton defies all the convenient categories of his age. Some have labelled him a political historian, noting his interest is statues, statesmen and parliamentary intrigue Others have seen him as a champion of 'social history': a persuasive practitioner of labour history, Aboriginal history and all such 'history from below'...

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