History as a vocation

Graeme Davison
Clayton, Vic. : School of Historical Studies Monash University, 2006

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Book description
This is the transcript of a lecture Graeme Davison gave to a full house on the auspicious occasion of his retirement from the School of Historical Studies, 23 November 2005.

About the author
Graeme Davison is a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. Professor Davison was a Rhodes Scholar (1964) and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of the Humanities. Professor Davison research interest is in the history of cities in Australia, Britain and the United States. He is the author or co-author of over 15 books including The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne(1978), The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time (1993) and The use and abuse of Australian history (2000).