The Patrician and the Bloke: Geoffrey Serle and the Making of Australian HistoryIn the era following WWII, Alan Geoffrey Serle (1922-98) came to stand in the forefront of historians and biographers of Australia. As a teacher and writer, and later as General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Serle helped nurture a distinctive Australian voice. In this professional biography, Thompson reflects on the various stages of Serle's life -- education at Scotch College, service in WWII, Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, lecturer at University of Melbourne and chair at Monash University. |
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Contents
Child of Empire | 29 |
Deo Patriae Litteris | 61 |
Meeting the common | 85 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Patrician and the Bloke: Geoffrey Serle and the Making of Australian History |
| Author | John Robert Thompson |
| Contributor | Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies |
| Publisher | Pandanus Books, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 13, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1740761529, 9781740761529 |
| Length | 383 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General |
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