Body and Mind

Historical Essays in Honour of F.B. Smith

Pat Jalland, Graeme Davison, and Wilfrid Prest

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Published 15-07-2009
ISBN 9780522857177
Pages 256
Subjects Biography: historical, political and military
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Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F. B. (Barry) Smith. Barry has made pioneering contributions to the political, social and cultural histories of Britain and Australia, and these essays range across the fields he made his own, especially the interconnected histories of medicine (body) and ideas (mind).

The editors bring together several generations of Barry's admirers, colleagues, friends and pupils, including Joanna Bourke writing on war and industrial trauma, Peter Edwards on the Agent Orange controversy, Pat Jalland on death in the London Blitz and Phillipa Mein Smith on the idea of Australasia. Body and Mind is a salute to the inestimable work, and the life and times of F. B. Smith.

About The Author

Pat Jalland has been a professor of history at the Australian National University since 1997. She previously taught history at Murdoch and Curtin universities, and was a research fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Her books include Women, Marriage and Politics: Death in the Victorian Family, which won the New South Wales Premier's Prize for…

About The Author

Graeme Davison is Emeritus Sir John Monash Professor of History at Monash University. He has written widely on Australian history, and his publications include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time, Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered our Cities, City Dreamers:…