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Trafficking in the Past

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May 1996, no. 180

Hunters and Collectors: The antiquarian imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths

Cambridge University Press, $34.95 pb, 416 pp

Trafficking in the Past

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May 1996, no. 180

Six weeks after the First Fleet sailed for New South Wales Edward Gibbon completed The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Probably the finest example of the Western tradition of history as chronological and sequential, Gibbon’s work provided the Europe of his time with a panoramic background against which the achievements of modern civilization could be measured.

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Geoffrey Bolton

Geoffrey Bolton (1931–2015) was an influential historian and academic. Among his many publications were Claremont: A history (1999), Paul Hasluck: A life (2014), and The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 5, 1942 –1988, The Middle Way (1990). He contributed to ABR from 1964 to 2006.

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