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Great Central State : the foundation of the Northern Territory.

Great Central State : the foundation of the Northern Territory.
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ISBN 9781743050293 (electronic bk.)
1743050291 (electronic bk.)
Author Cross, Jack
Title Great Central State : the foundation of the Northern Territory.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 2010.
Description 1 online resource (432 p.)
Contents Great Central State; Author bio; Title page; Imprint page; Contents page 1; Contents page 2; Dedication; Epigraph; Preface; Chapter 1 -- The Great Central State; The Dream of the Great Asian Market; A Confused Acquisition; The Northern Territory Plan; The Wakefield Background; Plan in Detail -- in Parliament; An Unequal Partnership; Chapter 2 -- Caesar and His Fortune; The Banquet; First Northern Territory Expedition: 1864; Relief Ships -- 1865; The Winding Up; Retribution; Chapter 3 -- The Intervention of the Partners; The Other Partners; The Great Debate.
The Second Northern Territory Expedition: 1868-1869Restitution; Chapter 4 -- A Second South Australia; Complications; The Indies Governor; The Indies Governor in Decline; The 'Resulting Land Imbroglio'; 'Two Main Streets and a Chinese Quarter'; Crisis in Law and Order; Law and Aborigines; Plates; Chapter 5 -- Extreme Solutions; The Discovery of Lochac; 'That Insatiable Maelstrom'; 'The Laissez-Faire' -- Let the Market Decide; Dutch Response -- and the Misadventures of Captain Cadell; Plan Misfires; Chapter 6 -- The Mormon Pattern; Santals; Mennonites; Japanese; An Alternative Israel.
Chapter 7 -- Coming of the GauchOther Colonisers: Different Stories; Ralph Milner and the Southern Route; Dillon Cox and the Queensland Side; Two Territories; Chapter 8 -- Conceding Defeat; Epilogue; Documentation: Abbreviations; Author's Note; Index; Back cover.
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Subjects Northern Territory -- History
Northern Territory -- Description and travel
South Australia -- History
Geography
History
Northern Territory -- History
South Australia -- History
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Great Central State : The foundation of the Northern Territory
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