Invasion and Resistance, Aboriginal - European Relations on the North Queensland Frontier 1861-1897
by Loos, Noel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0708115217
- ISBN 13
- 9780708115213
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About This Item
Canberra ACT : Australian National University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers are foxed and there is some scattered foxing in the text Edges browned and foxed Hardcover has some marks and fading on the spine North Queensland has long been a frontier province of Aboriginal Australia. Well before Europeans penetrated to the south-west Pacific, the Torres Strait Islanders had regular and extensive contact with Aboriginal groups in Cape York Peninsula and the Dutch had visited the coast at intervals since 1606. Not till the coming of the white settler in the mid nineteenth century, however, did ‘invasion’ begin. When it did, the Aborigines were dispossessed of their land and, since in British eyes they had no title to it, resistance was considered a criminal activity.
This book studies Aboriginal-European relations on four different frontiers of contact. Though the pastoral industry led to the colonisation of most of North Queensland other parts were also the scene of confrontation: the gold mines, the timber-getting areas of the rainforest which later were settled by farmers and the pearl-shell and bêche-de-mer areas on the far north coast. In all areas, despite sometimes armed resistance by the Aborigines, the Europeans imposed their authority.
This book has something challenging to say to all white Australians interested in the basic values on which their society is based and is an essential reference for Aborigines wanting to know how and why they were dispossessed. B & W photos & illustrations
This book studies Aboriginal-European relations on four different frontiers of contact. Though the pastoral industry led to the colonisation of most of North Queensland other parts were also the scene of confrontation: the gold mines, the timber-getting areas of the rainforest which later were settled by farmers and the pearl-shell and bêche-de-mer areas on the far north coast. In all areas, despite sometimes armed resistance by the Aborigines, the Europeans imposed their authority.
This book has something challenging to say to all white Australians interested in the basic values on which their society is based and is an essential reference for Aborigines wanting to know how and why they were dispossessed. B & W photos & illustrations
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- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54747
- Title
- Invasion and Resistance, Aboriginal - European Relations on the North Queensland Frontier 1861-1897
- Author
- Loos, Noel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0708115217
- ISBN 13
- 9780708115213
- Publisher
- Australian National University Press
- Place of Publication
- Canberra ACT
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 325
- Keywords
- Australian Aboriginals & Torres Strait Islanders North Queensland, aboriginals, resistance, settlers
- X weight
- 500.000 kg
- Size
- Octavo (standard book size)
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