A history of Victoria
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A history of Victoria
Cambridge University Press, c2006
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Bibliography: p. [276]-291
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In 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.
Table of Contents
- Part I: 1. A turban of feathers
- 2. Australia felix
- 3. Golden ant-hill
- 4. The silver stick
- Part II: 5. One in ten thousand
- 6. 'My Lord the workingman'
- 7. Sunshine and moonshine
- 8. Who am I?
- Part III: 9. When the bubble burst
- 10. There go the horses
- 11. Smoke and fire
- 12. The rise and fall of Albert the Great
- 13. The jolting merry-go-round
- 14. A long race
- 15. Mr Cain's tidal wave
- Part IV: 16. Time for change
- 17. The Kennett years
- 18. Victoria today.
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