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The origins of Australia's capital cities

This comprehensive survey aims to answer two questions. First, why Australia's eight capital cities are situated where they are, and second, how they were established. Pairs of chapters on each of the state capitals--Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Brisbane--are accompanied by studies of Canberra as federal capital and Darwin as territorial capital
Print Book, English, 1989
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1989
History
xvii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
9780521362429, 9780521408325, 0521362423, 0521408326
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Patterns and perspectives / Pamela Statham
The founding of New South Wales / Ged Martin
Sydney : a southern emporium / Brian Fletcher
Settling Van Diemen's land / Lloyd Robson
Hobart : a moment of glory / Gordon Rimmer
Western Australia becomes British / Pamela Statham
Perth : a foundling city / Geoffrey Bolton
Establishing South Australia / Mel Davies
Adelaide : a Victorian bastide. / Tony Denholm
The founding of Melbourne / Alan Shaw
Melbourne : a kangaroo advance / Susan Priestley
Choosing Brisbane / Ross Johnston and Helen Gregory
Brisbane : making it work / Ross Johnston and Helen Gregory
The Northern settlements : outposts of empire / James Cameron
Palmerston (Darwin) : four expeditions in search of a capital / Robert Reece
Canberra : the bush capital / Roger Pegrum