Geoffrey Norman Blainey, AC, FAHA, FASSA (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, best selling author and commentator. Blainey is noted...
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Pinzler.com. Retrieved 1 March 2012. Geoffrey Blainey; A Short History of Christianity; Viking; 2011; p.392 Geoffrey Blainey; A Short History of Christianity;...
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Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia by Richard Overy The historian Geoffrey Blainey wrote that Hitler courted and benefited from fear among German Christians...
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Geoffrey Blainey, who called it "one of the most important and devastating (books) written on Australian history in recent decades", although Blainey...
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the Orthodox Church and Judaism Geoffrey Blainey; A Short History of Christianity; Viking; 2011; pp.32-35 Geoffrey Blainey; A Short History of Christianity;...
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The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australia's History (category Books by Geoffrey Blainey)
Shaped Australia's History is a history book by Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey. First published in 1966, the book examines how Australia's geographical...
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des Périers, Michel de Montaigne, and François Rabelais. Historian Geoffrey Blainey wrote that the Reformation had paved the way for atheists by attacking...
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Luke 8:1–3 23:26–31 Mk 16:9 Geoffrey Blainey; A Short History of Christianity; Penguin Viking; 2011; pp 19-20 Geoffrey Blainey; A Very Short History of the...
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Irish and English researchers including Tony Collins, Joe Lennon, Geoffrey Blainey and Aaron Dunne point to the GAA creating Gaelic Football as a hybrid...
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impact of introduced diseases, rather than the consequence of policy. Geoffrey Blainey, for example, wrote that by 1830 in Tasmania: "Disease had killed most...
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atheism, Voltaire was widely condemned as one of the causes", wrote Geoffrey Blainey. "Nonetheless, his writings did concede that fear of God was an essential...
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University was founded in Spain in 1243. According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey, the universities benefitted from the use of Latin, the common language...
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Magdalene, his mother, and the other women as he was crucified. Historian Geoffrey Blainey concludes that "as the standing of women was not high in Palestine...
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A Short History of Christianity (category Books by Geoffrey Blainey)
history of the Christian religion written by the Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey. First published in 2012 by Penguin Books, it describes the history...
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information about women's roles in the early church. The historian Geoffrey Blainey wrote that women were more influential during the period of Jesus'...
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a general history non-fiction book written by Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey. First published in 2000 by Penguin Books, it describes over 4 million...
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there would be "no place in this utopia for the Christian Churches". Geoffrey Blainey wrote that Hitler and his fascist ally Mussolini were atheists, but...
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sick. Priests were often also physicians. According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey, while pagan religions seldom offered help to the infirm, the early...
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of Frank Hardy and Kerry Greenwood. Historians Manning Clarke and Geoffrey Blainey have also written extensively on the sport. Slang within Australian...
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Jeannie Gunn, We of the Never Never [1], 1908, ISBN 1-4043-3885-3 Geoffrey Blainey, A Land Half Won, Melbourne: Sun Books, 1983 (first printed in 1980)...
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should be attached to each cathedral and monastery and the historian Geoffrey Blainey likened the activities of the Catholic Church in health care during...
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to Aboriginal populations and culture. According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey, during the colonial period: "Smallpox, measles, influenza and other...
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(Melbourne), Humphrey McQueen (freelance), and Clem Lloyd (Wollongong). Geoffrey Blainey was invited to participate, but declined. In 2004, The Age asked fifteen...
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population rate, and twice that of Islam. According to the historian Geoffrey Blainey from the University of Melbourne, since the 1960s there has been a...
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his Aboriginal ancestors are and where they came from." Historian Geoffrey Blainey stated that "it is now known that [Pascoe's] four grandparents were...
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has chosen what is better" (Luke 10:38–42). According to historian Geoffrey Blainey, women were probably the majority of Christians in the 1st century...
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Generations can be found in Sally Morgan's My Place. Charles Bean, Geoffrey Blainey, Robert Hughes, Manning Clark, Claire Wright, and Marcia Langton are...
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misrepresented or ignored Indigenous Australian history. The historian Geoffrey Blainey argued in the literary and political journal Quadrant in 1993 that...
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war involvement. In 1988's The Causes of War, Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey argues, "If war-weariness was one of the spokes in Mr. Neville Chamberlain's...
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18 percent hold no religious identification. According to historian Geoffrey Blainey from the University of Melbourne, since the 1960s, there has been a...
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