The Pearl Frontier : Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network /
Remarkable for its meticulous archival research and moving life stories, the Pearl Frontier offers a new way of imagining Australian historical connections with Indonesia. This compelling view from below of maritime mobility demonstrates how, in the colonial quest for the valuable pearl-shell, Austr...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Border-crossing on the pearl frontier
- The birth of the pearling zone, 1860-1890
- Maritime mobility in eastern Indonesia
- Master pearlers on both sides of the frontier
- Labor migration to north Australia, 1901-1941
- Challenging social segregation
- War on the pearl frontier
- Disputed borders on the pearl frontier
- Marriage and Australian citizenship.