Research Catalog

Title

A history of Victoria / Geoffrey Blainey.

Author

Blainey, Geoffrey

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

xi, 338 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 22 cm

Summary

A lively account of the people, places and events that have shaped Victoria with new illustrations, photographs and maps. This book 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.

Alternative Title

Victoria

Subject

Victoria > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• "First published by Methuen Haynes as Our side of the country: the story of Victoria in 1984. Revised edition published by Sun Books in 1991. Revised edition first published by Cambridge University Press as A history of Victoria in 2006. Reprinted 2007. Second edition 2013"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-218) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Feathers, Fleece and Dust of Gold -- 1.A Turban of Feathers -- 2.Australia Felix -- 3.A Golden Ant Hill -- 4.The Silver Stick -- 5.One in Ten Thousand -- 6.`My Lord the Workingman' -- 7.Sunshine and Moonshine -- 8.Who Am I? -- pt. Two Whirlwind and Calm -- 9.When the Bubble Burst -- 10.The Horse and Its Conquerors -- 11.Hope, Depression, Fire and War -- 12.The Rise and Fall of Albert the Great -- 13.The Jolting Merry-Go-Round -- 14.A Long Race: Melbourne and Sydney -- 15.Whirlwind in Spring Street -- 16.The New Victorians: Life, Work and Play -- 17.Koala, Growling Frog, Drought and Fire -- 18.A Bulging City.

ISBN

• 9781107691612 (pbk.)
• 1107691613 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013431762

OCLC

858552058

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library