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The pearl frontier : Indonesian labor and indigenous encounters in Australia's northern trading network / Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers.
LIBRA HD9678.P42 M37 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martínez, Julia, author.
- Vickers, Adrian, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pearl industry and trade--Australia, Northern--History.
- Pearl industry and trade.
- Pearl industry and trade--Indonesia--History.
- Foreign workers, Indonesian--Australia, Northern.
- Foreign workers, Indonesian.
- History.
- Australia, Northern--History.
- Australia, Northern.
- Indonesia.
- Northern Australia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824840020
- 082484002X
- OCLC:
- 897437426
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