TY - BOOK AU - Gordon,Donald Craigie TI - The Australian Frontier in New Guinea 1870-1885 T2 - Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law SN - 9780231931045 PY - 1951///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER I. DISCOVERY AND FIRST SETTLEMENT EFFORTS --; CHAPTER II. SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY NEAR NEW GUINEA: FURTHER EXPLORATION --; CHAPTER III. THE MISSIONARIES OPEN THE NEW GUINEA FRONTIER --; CHAPTER IV. THE GROWTH OF AUSTRALIAN AWARENESS OF THE PACIFIC --; CHAPTER V. GROWING AUSTRALIAN INTEREST IN NEW GUINEA --; CHAPTER VI. BRITISH ATTITUDE TOWARD IMPERIALISM --; CHAPTER VII. BRITISH REACTION AND THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT'S DECISION --; CHAPTER VIII. THE SYDNEY CONFERENCE --; CHAPTER IX. LORD DERBY'S RENEWED PROPOSAL --; CHAPTER X. THE AUSTRALIANS ACCEPT; GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC --; CHAPTER XI. THE PROTECTORATE ESTABLISHED --; EPILOGUE AND CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - Describes the development of the Australian interest in Papua and the efforts of the Australians to obtain Papua for the British Crown to add to the security of the Australian colonies UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/gord93104 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231892032.jpg ER -