LEADER 03210oam 2200553 a 450 001 9910781849203321 005 20240206232352.0 010 $a1-74305-029-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000062948 035 $a(EBL)793772 035 $a(OCoLC)759101470 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000961247 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11957321 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000961247 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10962768 035 $a(PQKB)10559122 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC793772 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL793772 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10509137 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000062948 100 $a20111107d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGreat central state $ethe foundation of the Northern Territory /$fJack Cross 210 $aKent Town, S. Aust. $cWakefield Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (432 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-86254-877-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aGreat 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aChapter 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; Documentation: Abbreviations; Author's Note; Index; Back cover 330 $aIn Great Central State , Jack Cross tells the story of South Australia's ambitious - or foolhardy - plan to become the premier colony of Australia using its own unique experience in planned colonisation, and its bid to develop the north coast as an integral part of South-East Asia. 607 $aNorthern Territory$xHistory 607 $aSouth Australia$xHistory 676 $a919.4 676 $a919.42903 676 $a994.29 700 $aCross$b Jack$01580488 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781849203321 996 $aGreat central state$93861450 997 $aUNINA