Frank Broeze

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Frank Broeze
Born18 August 1945
Died4 April 2001
Perth, Western Australia
NationalityAustralian
OccupationAcademic
Years active1960s to 2001
Known forMaritime historian
Notable workIsland nation; a history of Australians and the sea (1998)

Frank Broeze (18 August 1945 – 4 April 2001) was a professor of history at the University of Western Australia. [1] His special area of interest was maritime history.

Life and work

Born Franklin Jan Aart Broeze in Rijswijk, Netherlands, Broeze was a maritime historian, and one of the founders of the Australian Association for Maritime History. He was also one of the founders of the International Maritime History Association [2] which later became the International Maritime Economic History Association. He published widely on maritime history issues [3] [4] [5] as well as editing The Great Circle, the journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History. [6] He wrote ten books and had more than 100 articles published in academic journals. [7]

Although best known as a maritime historian he also wrote on economic history. For example, he is the main author of Chapter 5 Markets, in Australians 1838, one of ten volumes published to mark the Australian Bicentenary in 1988. [8]

Broeze died on 4 April 2001 in Perth. [9] The Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize was created by the Australian National Maritime Museum in his memory. [10] In addition, a memorial lecture was inaugurated and is held each year. [11]

Notes

  1. "Broeze, Frank", Trove, 2008
  2. Founders, International Maritime History Association
  3. Broeze, Frank (1993), Mr Brooks and the Australian trade : imperial business in the nineteenth century, Melbourne University Press, ISBN   978-0-522-84574-7
  4. Broeze, Frank; Henderson, Graeme, 1947-; Western Australian Museum; Broeze, Frank J. A; Henderson, Graeme (1986), Western Australians & the sea : our maritime heritage, Western Australian Museum, ISBN   978-0-7309-1244-6 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. Broeze, Frank (January 1998), Island nation : a history of Australians and the sea, St. Leonards, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin (published 1998), ISBN   978-1-74269-668-3
  6. Broeze, Frank (1989), Brides of the sea : port cities of Asia from the 16th-20th centuries, New South Wales University Press, ISBN   978-0-86840-203-1
  7. Obituary by Michael Pearson, Australian Academy of the Humanities, Proceedings, 26, 2001
  8. Atkinson, Alan; Aveling, Marian (1987). Australians 1838 (First ed.). Sydney: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates. p. 432. ISBN   0-949288-11 X.
  9. Tull Malcolm (2001). "Obituary: Franklin (Frank) Jan Aart Broeze, 1945-2001". Australian Economic History Review. 41 (3): 325–326. doi: 10.1111/1467-8446.00090 .
  10. "History Prizes". Australian National Maritime Museum . Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  11. Beazley, Kim; Australian Labor Party (13 September 2002), Inaugral Frank Broeze Memorial Lecture , retrieved 10 December 2015

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