North of Capricorn : the untold story of Australia's north / Henry Reynolds.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: xvi, 220 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: | volume | volumeISBN: 1865080306 (hardback); 9781865080307 (hardback)Subject(s): 1900 - 1999 | Chinese in Australia -- History | Pacific Islanders -- Australia -- History | Pacific Islanders -- Queensland -- History | Chinese -- Queensland -- History | Chinese -- Australia -- History | Race relations - Attitudes | Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping | Race relations - Racial discrimination | Race relations - Representation - History | Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Kanakas | Settlement and contacts - Chinese | Settlement and contacts - Ethnic groups, immigration and multiculturalism | Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland | Commerce | Ethnology | Multiculturalism | Nationalism | Race relations | Racism | Australians | National characteristics, Australian | National characteristics, Australian | Multiculturalism -- Australia | Ethnology -- Australia | Nationalism -- Australia | Racism -- Australia | Racisme -- Australie | Ethnologie -- Australie | Multiculturalisme -- Australie | Nationalisme -- Australie | Australiens | Australia, Northern -- Commerce -- Asia | Northern Territory -- History | Capricornia (Qld.) -- History -- 20th century | Australia, Northern -- History | Thursday Island (Qld.) -- History | Queensland -- History | Mackay (Qld.) -- History | Capricornia (Qld.) -- History -- 19th century | Australia, Northern -- History -- 20th century | Australia -- Race relations | Australia -- Race relations -- History | Australia, Northern -- Race relations -- History | Waiben / Thursday Island (Qld TSI SC54-11) | Darwin (NT Top End SD52-04) | Wupipi / Broome (WA West Kimberley SE51-06) | Cairns (NE Qld SE55-02) | Mackay (E Qld SF55-08) | Australia, North -- History -- 20th century | Australia -- Race relations -- Economic aspects | Asia -- Commerce -- Australia | Asia -- Commerce -- Australia | Australia -- Commerce -- Asia | Australia -- History -- 20th century | Australia -- Race relations | Asia | Australia | Asia -- Commerce -- Australia | Australia -- Commerce -- Asia | Australia -- History -- 20th century | Asie -- Commerce -- Australie | Australie -- Histoire -- 20e siècle | Australie -- Relations raciales | Australie -- Commerce -- Asie | North Australia | Australian ethnic groups | Multiculturalism | Social conditions | Economic conditions | History, 1801-1900 | History, 1901-1945 | North Australia | Australian ethnic groups | Multiculturalism | Social conditions | Economic conditions | History, 1801-1900 | History, 1901-1945 | Australia - Race relations | Racism - Australia | Multiculturalism - Australia | Australia - History - 20th century | Australia - Commerce - Asia | Nationalism - Australia | National characteristics, Australian | Ethnology - Australia | Asia - Commerce - AustraliaGenre/Form: History. DDC classification: 994.04 LOC classification: DU116 | .R49 2003Online resources: Table of contents | Table of contents | Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 994.04 REY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111020306906 |
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.
Aboriginal Australia -- The black workforce -- Mackay and the Melanesians -- 'Eating with the Chows' : the Chinese in far North Queensland -- Thursday Island : a multi-racial Gibraltar -- Darwin and the Chinese Territorians -- Broome : an 'ethnological museum' -- The confronting north -- Unity of race -- White Australia : its victims and critics.
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.
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