Great Central State : the foundation of the Northern Territory / Jack Cross
- Bib ID:
- 4938898
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cross, Jack, 1930-
- Description:
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- Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2011
- xii, 403 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781862548770
- Summary:
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This book tells the sometimes bizarre story of the founding and precarious existence of the Northern Territory up to its constitution as a separate entity in 1911.
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 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
- Ch. 2 Caesar and his fortune - The banquet
- First Northern Territory Expedition: 1864
- Relief ships: 1865
- The winding up
- Retribution
- Ch. 3 The intervention of the partners - The other partners
- The great debate
- The second Northern Territory Expedition: 1868-1869
- Restitution
- Ch. 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
- Ch. 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
- Ch. 6 The Mormon pattern - Santals
- Mennonites
- Japanese
- An alternative Israel
- Ch. 7 Comning of the gauchos - Other colonisers: different stories
- Ralph Milner and the southern route
- Dillon Cox and the Queensland side
- Two Territories
- Ch. 8 Conceading defeat
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Includes biblographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Race relations
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism - 1851-1900
- Settlement and contacts - Macassans and Indonesians
- Larrakia / Laragiya / Gulumirrgin people (N21) (NT SD52-04)
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Wulna / Wuna people (N29) (NT SD52-04)
- Northern Territory -- History
- South Australia -- History
- Northern Territory (NT)
- South Australia (SA)
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