AUSTRALIANA
Leading Australian historian Henry Reynolds brings to life the country’s diverse and thriving far North in the last years of the 19th century – and the changes that were wrought there by a new national government obsessed with ‘racial purity’. A major work; densely illustrated and thoroughly researched.
xvi, 220 p. : ill. (sepia), ports. ; 27 cm. First Edition. #261023 (Small booklabel on fpd)
Reynolds argues that the North Queensland towns were successful multi-racial societies of Melanesian caneworkers, Chinese entrepreneurs, Japanese deep-sea divers and Polynesian adventurers until the White Australia Policy threatened their heterogeneity.
Settlement and contacts – Chinese
Race relations – Racial discrimination
Settlement and contacts – Ethnic groups, immigration and multiculturalism
Race relations – Representation – History
Indigenous peoples – Pacific – Kanakas
Race relations – Attitudes
Race relations – Racism – Stereotyping
Australia — History — 20th century
Australia — Commerce — Asia
Asia — Commerce — Australia
Wupipi / Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06)
Darwin (NT Top End SD52-04)
Waiben / Thursday Island (Qld TSI SC54-11)
Mackay (E Qld SF55-08)
Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02)