Paul Giles is Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a former president of the International American Studies Association and director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University. His most recent book is Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of U. S. Literature (2013).
Paul Giles
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Down Under, Between Destinations
In 1966, Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey published The Tyranny of Distance, a work that described how Australia’s history had been shaped by …
