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Bob Reece Bob Reece i(A7916 works by) (a.k.a. Robert Harold William Reece)
Born: Established: 1940 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Emeritus Professor Bob Reece is an historian with a particular interest in the history of the Irish in Australia, Aboriginal history and Malaysian colonialism. He has published on all three topics.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • information from http://www.murdoch.edu.au/News/Find-an-expert/History-and-Theology-experts/ Murdoch University website.

Personal Awards

2005 Harold White Fellowships to prepare an edition of the letters of Daisy Bates

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Daisy Bates : Grand Dame of the Desert Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2007 Z1452155 2007 single work biography 'Daisy Bates became an iconic figure during the years she spent on the border between Western Australia and South Australia. 'The Great White Queen of the Never-Never Lands' reigned supreme over the groups of Aboriginal people who, attracted by the Transcontinental Railway, arrived from the desert country to the north. Bates craved to be seen as a 'woman of science' through her earlier ethnographic work in Western Australia, but her exaggerated claims of wholesale cannibalism amongst the Aborigines, her belief in their inevitable extinction and her dismissive attitude to 'castes' discredited her within the academic community. Only in recent times has the use of her ethnographic data in Native Title claims begun to rehabilitate her scientific reputation. In Daisy Bates: A Life, Western Australian historian Bob Reece tells her extraordinary story through her letters and published writings so that readers can gain some idea of her motivation and beliefs, and picture what kind of person she really was.' (Publisher's blurb)
2007 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Western Australian History
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