Autor: Eric L Jones

Eric Jones is Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, and former Professorial Fellow of Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. Besides the D Phil. he holds the higher doctorate, D Litt, of the University of Oxford, where he also received the Vaughan Cornish Award for environmental history. He has had a lifetime's academic career in the UK, USA, and Australia and has published many books and articles on economic history, economic development, international affairs, agricultural history and environmental history. His avocation is as an ornithologist and he has been Field Secretary of the Oxford Ornithological Society and Honorary Archivist of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union. His previous book with World Scientific was Locating the Industrial Revolution: Inducement and Response (2010).