A History of VictoriaIn this lively book, Geoffrey Blainey, Victoria's best known historian, traces the history of Victoria from the time the Aboriginals could walk across Bass Strait to the State's fall from grace and the collapse of the Cain government. |
Contents
A Turban of Feathers | 3 |
Australia Felix | 16 |
A Golden Anthill | 39 |
The Silver Stick | 59 |
One in Ten Thousand | 78 |
My Lord the Workingman | 96 |
Sunshine and Moonshine | 110 |
Who Am I? | 126 |
The Horse and Its Conquerors | 159 |
Hope Depression Fire and War | 171 |
The Rise and Fall of Albert the Great | 191 |
The Jolting MerryGoRound | 202 |
Melbourne and Sydney | 222 |
The Big Smoke | 247 |
The Alps and the Plains | 262 |
Sources | 276 |
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