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Cross Jack |
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Titolo |
Great central state : the foundation of the Northern Territory / / Jack Cross |
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Kent Town, S. Aust., : Wakefield Press, 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (432 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Northern Territory History |
South Australia History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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: 1868-1869; Restitution; 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 Gauch; Other Colonisers: Different Stories; Ralph Milner and the Southern Route; Dillon Cox and the Queensland Side; Two Territories; Chapter 8 - Conceding Defeat; Epilogue; |
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