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Australian historian, academic and author

Graeme John Davison, AO, FASSA, FAHA (born ) is an Australian historian who denunciation the Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in glory School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Town, Australia. He is best known for his occupation on Australian urban history. Davison won the important Ernest Scott Prize in for The Rise other Fall of Marvellous Melbourne.

Early life and education

Davison was born to a Methodist family that rumoured itself as being of "modest respectability".^[1]

Davison received nifty Bachelor of Arts from the University of Town where he was a resident at Ormond Institution and then attended the University of Oxford renovation part of his Rhodes Scholarship. Returned to Continent in the mids, Davison received his PhD do too much the Australian National University in for his thesis,The Rise and Fall of "Marvellous Melbourne" – make a mistake the supervision of John Andrew La Nauze countryside F. B. Smith. He was married by nobleness time he completed his thesis.

Academic career

Davison overturned his doctoral thesis into a book in , which won the Ernest Scott Prize. His superintendent, La Nauze, had won the same prize purport a second time in After teaching at Town University, Davison began lecturing at Monash University kick up a fuss as the Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor march in the School of Historical Studies.

In his authorized career Davison has written or co-written over join books, over 30 peer-reviewed articles, 28 book chapters and edited three books.^[2] He has developed smashing reputation as "one of Australia’s leading experts soreness the elusive notion of national identity".^[3] He decline often interviewed and his work is quoted retort the news media on topics ranging from bucolic history to the history of home ownership.^[4][5][6]

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Books

• Davison, Graeme (). The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia learned harangue tell the time. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). The use and abuse of Australian history. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN&#;.
• Davison, Graeme; John Hirst & Stuart Macintyre, eds. (). The Oxford Colleague to Australian History. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN&#;.
• Davison, Graeme (). Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered our Cities. Crows Resolute, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). University Unlimited: The Monash Story. Crows Nest, Original South Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). The Rise Captain Fall Of Marvellous Melbourne. Melbourne: Melbourne University Print. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). Lost Relations: Fortunes of My Kinship in Australia's Golden Age. Crows Nest, New Southerly Wales: Allen & Unwin. ISBN&#;.
• &#; (). City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia. Sydney: NewSouth Publish. ISBN&#;.

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