Full name Iain Duncan McCalman Name Iain McCalman | Doctoral students Peter Stanley | |
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Born 6 November 1947 (age 76)
Nyasaland, Africa ( 1947-11-06 ) Institutions University of Sydney
Australian National University Alma mater Australian National University (BA, MA)
Monash University (PhD) Thesis A Radical Underworld in London: Thomas Evans, Robert Wedderburn, George Cannon and Their Circle, 1800–35 (1984) Main interests British and European social history Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1992)
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1992)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1996)
Federation Fellowship (2003)
Officer of the Order of Australia (2007) Education Australian National University Books The Reef: A Passionat, The Reef: A Passionat, Radical underworld, The Last Alchemist, The Seven Ordeals of Count Ca | ||
The reef a passionate history by iain mccalman
Iain Duncan McCalman AO, FAHA, FASSA (born 6 November 1947) is an Australian historian, and a research professor at the University of Sydney. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth British and European history and has a particular interest in popular culture and low life. He was born in Nyasaland, Africa and was educated in Zimbabwe and Australia.
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- The reef a passionate history by iain mccalman
- Great barrier reef what s the story iain mccalman and robert manne in conversation
- Career
- Books
- References
Great barrier reef what s the story iain mccalman and robert manne in conversation
Career
McCalman was President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities from 2001–2004, and is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. In 2007 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for "service to history and to the humanities as a teacher, researcher and author, and through administrative, advocacy and advisory roles in academic and public sector organisations."
Books
McCalman's 2003 book, The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro, Flamingo (also HarperCollins, US and Random House, UK 2003), explores the life of the celebrated and infamous alchemist, magician, freemason, and global identity of the eighteenth century, Alessandro Cagliostro.
Darwin's Armada, published in 2009, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, examines the sea voyages of four naturalists, Darwin himself, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace, and their subsequent roles in the controversy surrounding the publication of On the Origin of Species. It won the 2011 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize.
The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change was published by Scientific American Books and Penguin (Australia) in 2014. The Reef was shortlisted for the 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards for non-fiction.