Darwin: Survival of a City - The 1890s
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Darwin: Survival of a City - The 1890s

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Darwin: Survival of a City - The 1890s

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The last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia's Top End settlement of Palmerston. The major industries of mining, pastoralism, and agriculture suffered from downturn, disease and distance. The South Australians had had enough of their 'white elephant' and, when Palmerston blew away in the Great Hurricane of 1897, the calls for the Northern Territory's return to the British Colonial Government grew louder.
But the Territory, as ever, was full of resilient and resourceful characters. They appear in these pages: judges, railway gangers, bushmen, buffalo hunters, hoteliers, Chinese miners, Aboriginal station hands, explorers, cross-country cyclists, murderers, and more.
Territorians were, as Banjo Patterson described them, full of 'booze, blow and blasphemy' - but even he couldn't wait to return.
Derek Pugh brings the Darwin of the 1890s alive. (Hon Sally Thomas AC).

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Publisher
Derek Pugh
Year
2024
ISBN
9780645737455
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia de Australia y Oceanía

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Maps
  7. Timeline
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. Chapter 1: Management
  11. Chapter 2: Representation: Parsons, Solomon, and Griffiths
  12. Gallery: Palmerston in the 1890s
  13. Chapter 3: The Larrakia
  14. Chapter 4: Asian Settlers
  15. Chapter 5: Communication
  16. Chapter 6: Daily Life in Palmerston: Clubs and Societies
  17. Chapter 7: Alcohol and Opium
  18. Chapter 8: Industry
  19. Chapter 9: The Railway
  20. Chapter 10: The Charles Point Lighthouse
  21. Chapter 11: Territory Women
  22. Chapter 12: Capital Crimes
  23. Chapter 13: Health
  24. Chapter 14: The Overlander
  25. Chapter 15: Palmerstonian Souls
  26. Chapter 16: A Royal Commission for a White Elephant
  27. Chapter 17: The Great Hurricane
  28. Gallery: The Great Hurricane of 1897
  29. Chapter 18: And Now?
  30. Appendices
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index
  33. Further reading