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A three cornered life : the historian WK Hancock / Jim Davidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Jim, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hancock, W. K. (William Keith), 1898-1988.
- Hancock, W. K.
- Historians--Australia--Biography.
- Historians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : University of New South Wales Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Pages:1 to 1
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 578-593) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781742231273
- 1742231276
- OCLC:
- 786711847
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