A history of Victoria / Geoffrey Blainey.

Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

3rd ed.

59018

Our side of the country.

Victoria -- History.

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?

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 big smoke

17. The Alps and the plains.

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 Stat's fall from grace and the collapse of the Cain government.

First edition (1984) entitled "Our side of the country".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521689878

viii, 304 p. : maps.