I'm an Arts Grad who, like so many of those, has done what was necessary, or possible, ever since...
Education: I graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1982 with joint first class honours in History and Politics. I was awarded the Tinline Prize for coming top of History honours.
Games: I've played chess and bridge for Australia. For some years I made my living by playing bridge fulltime, sort of like poker is played now, ie for money. I've won many national championships and been paid to travel the world playing bridge. It's a tough life! Well, actually...it is. I promise you. Like I said at the beginning, Arts Grads do anything and everything.
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I'm an Arts Grad who, like so many of those, has done what was necessary, or possible, ever since...
Education: I graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1982 with joint first class honours in History and Politics. I was awarded the Tinline Prize for coming top of History honours.
Games: I've played chess and bridge for Australia. For some years I made my living by playing bridge fulltime, sort of like poker is played now, ie for money. I've won many national championships and been paid to travel the world playing bridge. It's a tough life! Well, actually...it is. I promise you. Like I said at the beginning, Arts Grads do anything and everything.
Writing: I've written several books, including a History of Australian Bridge commissioned by the ABF.
As a result of writing this history, I was invited to contribute an entry on MJ Sullivan for the Australian Dictionary of Biography. It can be found here: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biog...
Having written a monograph on the once highly popular (but long forgotten) nineteenth century SA novelist Maud Jean Franc, I was thrilled that Melbourne Age reviewer, academic and writer Lucy Sussex named it was one of her three favourite books the year it came out. And it's been reviewed on goodreads. Hey. What more could I want?
I've also written for many bridge magazines around the world, edited the Bulletins for national and international championships, and written for international tournaments. I was invited to write part of the 2007 World Championship book. My bridge writing has been translated into various languages including Chinese, Norwegian, Polish and Romanian.
Abstract of my honours thesis as it appeared in the Economic and Political Weekly
India's economic development has been portrayed in dualist terms by those who have argued that India's socioeconomic formation is considerably different from today's advanced countries in the early stages of their capitalist development. According to this view, by the end of the nineteenth century in India, there were enclaves of capitalist production but they were surrounded by the ocean of pre-capitalist agriculture. This article contests this view, on the basis of a study of agricultural development in Gujarat in the second half of the nineteenth century. Using England as a model of capitalism it has been argued that the differences between agriculture in India and England were not fundamental, implying two different modes of production, but were the inevitable result of contrasting historical courses of capitalist development in the two countries. By the end of the last century, the author argues, all the features one would expect to be evident in a capitalist mode of production in its early stages of development could be seen in Gujarat. The process of differentiation of the peasantry had led to the establishment of a class of capitalist farmers above the destitute direct producers. That this class was small in number is not significant for one would not expect otherwise of a capitalist mode of production in its early stages. ...more
