Great Central State : the foundation of the Northern Territory.
In 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.
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Wakefield Press,
2010
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Table of 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.
