Pasts Present
History at Australia's Third University
$39.95
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
12 August 2014
Summary
This ‘history of History’ provides a series of perspectives on a major academic discipline at the University of Adelaide, from colonial times to the present. Essays by current and former academics and students explore the distinctive character of Adelaide’s History Department. They highlight changing fashions and fortunes in modes of research, teaching and governance, and the numerous ways in which the university’s historians interacted with civic, state, national and international communitie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781743053263 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1743053266 |
| Author: | Wilfrid Prest |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 12 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 560g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 234mm x 162mm |
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About The Author
Wilfrid Prest
Born and schooled in Melbourne, after post-graduate study in Oxford, Wilfrid Prest AM moved to Adelaide, where he has lived and worked for more than fifty years and is now Emeritus Professor of History and of Law. Besides contributing to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The Oxford Companion to Australian History and the Journal of Australian Studies, he has edited a history of History at the University of Adelaide.
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