Body and Mind
Historical Essays in Honour of F. B. Smith
$73.91
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2009
Summary
Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia’s most outstanding and influential historians, F. B. (Barry) Smith. Barry has made pioneering contributions to the political, social and cultural histories of Britain and Australia, and these essays range across the fields he made his own, especially the interconnected histories of medicine (body) and ideas (mind).
The editors bring together several generations of Barry’s admirers, colleagues, friends and pupils, including Joanna Bourke w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522857177 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522857175 |
| Author: | Graeme Davison, Wilfrid Prest, Patricia Jalland |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 138mm x 210mm |
| Series: | Academic Monographs |
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Graeme Davison
Graeme Davison (Author)
Graeme Davison is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University since 1982. He has also held appointments at the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Harvard University, where he was Professor of Australian Studies. His books include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne and How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities, which won the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction.
Pat Jalland (Author)
Pat Jalland has been a professor of history at the Australian National University since 1997. She previously taught history at Murdoch and Curtin universities, and was a research fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Her books include Women, Marriage and Politics- Death in the Victorian Family, which won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for history; and Changing Ways of Death in 20th Century Australia.
Wilfrid Prest (Author)
Wilfrid Prest held an ARC Professorial Fellowship from 2002-07 and is now Professor Emeritus in Law and History at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590-1640; Albion Ascendant- English History 1660-1815 and most recently William Blackstone- Law and Letters in the Eighteenth Century. He is also the editor of The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History.
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