James Boyce

James Boyce is an honorary research associate at the University of Tasmania’s Centre for Environmental Studies. He is the author of 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia and Van Diemen’s Land.

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'The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia' By Bill Gammage

James Boyce

Modern environmental sensibility has not increased the number of Australians who are able to imagine what our dominant homelands – the...

Geoffrey Blainey and James Boyce: History is but a fable agreed upon

Geoffrey Blainey and James Boyce: History is but a fable agreed upon

Geoffrey Blainey
James Boyce

Recorded at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Geoffrey Blainey and James Boyce address the proposition that 'history is but a fable...

Geoffrey Blainey and James Boyce: History is but a fable agreed upon (p2)

Geoffrey Blainey and James Boyce: History is but a fable agreed upon (p2)

Geoffrey Blainey
James Boyce

Recorded at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Geoffrey Blainey and James Boyce address the proposition that 'history is but a fable...

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