Stephen Garton | |
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Born | 1955 |
Awards | Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Royal Australian Historical Society, the Royal Society of New South Wales |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Institutions | University of Sydney |
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