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Ian Tyrrell

Ian Tyrrell retired as Scientia Professor of History at UNSW in 2012 and is now Emeritus Professor of History. Born in Brisbane, he was educated at the University of Queensland and Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and James B Duke Fellow. His teaching and research interests include American history, environmental history and historiography.

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River Dreams

Ian Tyrrell

March 2018

In the beginning, there was the river — before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream.