• 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    Retrieved September 24, 2024. 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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    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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  • ISBN 0-85905-200-1 Steadfast Knight: A Life of Sir Hal Colebatch with a foreword by Geoffrey Blainey. Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004. ISBN 1-920731-39-3...
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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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    introduced to the Australian political lexicon by conservative historian Geoffrey Blainey in 1993 to describe views of history which, he believed, posited that...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    (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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    religion, the Christians won friends and sympathisers", wrote historian Geoffrey Blainey. Hospitality was considered an obligation of Christian charity and...
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  • from Russian, Stephen Schmidt, S.J., transcribed P. Legrand, page 3 Geoffrey Blainey; A Short History of Christianity; Viking; 2011; p.494 Martin Amis;...
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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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  • and history Manning Clark (1915–1991) Keith Windschuttle (born 1942) Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930) Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021) Henry Reynolds (born 1938)...
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    Deborah; Bolton, Geoffrey; Macintyre, Stuart; Stannage, Tom (eds.). The Fuss that Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey. Melbourne University...
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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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