This is the revised, expanded and illustrated 1982 version. Chapters include: Black and White Discoverers, C. 100,000 B.C. – A.D. 1770; Empire, Convicts And Currency, 1771 – 1820; New Settlements And New Pastures, 1821 – 1850; Diggers, Democracy and Urbanisation,  1851 – 1885; Radicals and Nationalists,  1886 – 1913; War And Depression, 1914 – 1938; War And Affluence, 1939 – 1966; Reform and Reaction, 1967 – 1982. Illustrated with black and white photographs and sketches.