Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life Tapa blanda - 2006

Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press , 2006 The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly foxed. 419 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paperback. Very Good.

Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; 2005 reprint. paperback in very good condition. 419 pages, b/w photos

Melbourne: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2005 . 1st p//b ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, spine little ceased, minimal foxing top edge, light foxing edges, minor edgewear, owner rubber stamp front flyleaf. 419 pp. A biography of H. C. (Herbert Cole) Coombs, an outstanding Australian public servant. Tim Rowse shows that Nugget Coombs understood 'economic rationality' as the socially integrative mission of private and public sector elites. He is best known as the first governor of the new Reserve Bank, and for his passion for Aboriginal affairs. He tested the adaptability of 20th-century liberalism, and made his career a 'reforming life’. Also an account of integrating government policies with Australian society. Tim Rowse previously wrote 'Obliged to be Difficult: Nugget Coombs' Legacy in Indigenous Affairs' (2000).

Cambridge University Press, 2005. Paperback. New. 432 pages. 8.74x5.43x1.10 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. H. C. Coombs was one of the most influential Australians of the twentieth century. Born in 1906, he is best known as the governor of the Reserve Bank, but the breadth of his activities and his commitment to public life until his death is unsurpassed.

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