Australian dictionary of biography volume 17
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- Melbourne : Melbourne University Press; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
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- (set)
- (index vol)
- (volume 7)
- (volume 8)
- (volume 9)
- (volume 10)
- (volume 11)
- X
- (volume 3)
- (volume 4)
- (volume 5)
- (volume 6)
- (volume 12)
- (volume 13)
- X (volume 14)
- (volume 15)
- (volume 16)
- (index)
- (supplement )
- (hardback) (volume 17)
- (hardback) (volume 18)
- (hardback) (volume 19)
- Full contents:
- v. 1. , A-H
- v. 2. , I-Z
- v. 3. , A-C
- v. 4. , D-J
- v. 5. , K-Q
- v. 6. , R-Z
- v. 7. , A-Ch
- v. 8. , Cl-Gib
- v. 9. , Gil-Las
- v. , Lat-Ner
- v. , Nes-Smi
- v. , Smy-Z
- v. , A-De
- Index: volumes 1 to 12,
- v. 14 , Di-Kel
- v. 15 , Kem-Pie
- v. 16, , Pik-Z
- Supplement: / editor: Christopher Cunneen
- v. , A-K
- v. , L-Z / editor: Melanie Nolan
- v. , A-Z.
- Notes:
- General editor, v. Douglas Pike; v. B
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Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 17 A-K
Volume 17 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography contains biographies of individuals who died between and The first of two volumes for the decade, it presents a colourful mosaic of twentieth-century Australian life. It contains biographies of well-known identities such as Sir Henry Bolte, Sir Robert Askin, Sir Reginald Ansett, Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, Sir Arthur Coles, Robert Holmes-à-Court, Sir Warwick Fairfax, Sir Edmund Herring, Albert Facey, Donald Friend, Sir Roy Grounds, Sir Bernard Heinze and Sir Robert Helpmann.
Eminent Australian women in the volume include Dame Elizabeth Couchman, Dame Kate Campbell, Dame Doris Fitton, Dame Zara Holt and Lady (Maie) Casey. Although many of the women achieved prominence in those professions conventionally regarded as the preserve of women, others—such as Ruby Boye-Jones, coast-watcher; Ellen Cashman, union organiser; Elsie Chauvel, film-maker; Dorothy efternamn,•
Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 17, –, A–K edited by Diane Langmore
Biography
by Geoffrey Blainey•
February , no.
Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 17, –, A–K edited by Diane Langmore
MUP, $ hb, pp
Biography
by Geoffrey Blainey•
February , no.
This is the latest volume of a reference work which should sit on the shelves of every municipal library. It assesses the lives of people, mostly prominent, who died in the years – It lists them in alphabetical order; a further volume will be needed to embrace the or people whose surnames began with the letters L to Z.
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If you need assistance, feel free to contact us.Geoffrey Blainey, a practising historian for some sixty years, has written on Australian and world history. Long attracted to museums, he was deputy chairman of the Whitlam government's Enquiry
- General editor, v. Douglas Pike; v. B