A three cornered life : the historian WK Hancock / / Jim Davidson
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| Autore: |
Davidson Jim <1942->
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| Titolo: |
A three cornered life : the historian WK Hancock / / Jim Davidson
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| Pubblicazione: | Sydney, New South Wales : , : UNSW Press, , [2010] |
| ©2010 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 994.04092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Historians - Australia |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 578-593) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Pages:1 to 1 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | While W.K. Hancock may no longer be described as 'Australia's most distinguished historian', he has some enduring claims to our attention. No other Australian historian - and few elsewhere - can match his 'span', to use one of his watchwords. Hancock was a major historian in four or five fields, who himself made history by going on a mission to Uganda for the British government in 1954 to mediate the future of Buganda after its ruler had been exiled. He was also, from a room in the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, the editor of a vast historical project: the writing of a series of accounts of Brit |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A three cornered life |
| ISBN: | 1-74223-127-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910480049503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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