Geoffrey BlaineyGeoffrey Blainey, one of Australia’s most prominent historians, held a chair at Harvard University and taught for many years at the University of Melbourne. He has written thirty-seven books, including the best-selling A Short History of the World an A Short History of the 20th Century. The Oxford Companion to Australian History calls him “the most prolific, wide-ranging, inventive” of all living Australian historians. Read More Read Less