Fatal contact : how epidemics nearly wiped out Australia's first peoples / Peter Dowling.
Fatal contact : how epidemics nearly wiped out Australia's first peoples / Peter Dowling.
Fatal contact : how epidemics nearly wiped out Australia's first peoples / Peter Dowling.
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Publisher
Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2021]
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G 2021/4627 , H 2021/2397
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxx, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2021]
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
[2021]
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Summary
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century. Th...
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Fatal contact : how epidemics nearly wiped out Australia's first peoples / Peter Dowling.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2021.
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G 2021/4627 , H 2021/2397
Record Identifier
74VKazLdAggM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKazLdAggM
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ISBN
9781922464460 (paperback)
DDC
614.4994
MMS ID
991024399819102626
