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Strangers on the shore : early coastal contacts in Australia /
"Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders - Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others - are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first encounters from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspective...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Canberra, A.C.T. :
National Museum of Australia Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders - Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others - are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first encounters from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. It also looks at the myriad elements of these cross-cultural exchanges, which resulted in profound outcomes for the First Australians. Strangers on the Shore: A Conference on Early Coastal Contacts with Australia was a landmark conference held at the National Museum of Australia on 30-31 March 2006"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 211 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781921953033 1921953039 9781876944889 1876944889 |