Strangers on the shore : early coastal contacts in Australia / edited by Peter Veth, Peter Sutton a...
Strangers on the shore : early coastal contacts in Australia / edited by Peter Veth, Peter Sutton a...
Strangers on the shore : early coastal contacts in Australia / edited by Peter Veth, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale.
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Full title
Publisher
Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
Call Numbers
Q303.482/6 , N303.482/ 84
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MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
xii, 236 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Strangers and servants of the company: the United East India Company and the Dutch voyages to Australia--Dutch-Australian contact in Cape York peninsula, 1606-1756--First contact between Europeans and Karajarri people on the Kimberley coast of Western Australia--Rock art and cross-cultural interacti...
Publication information
Publisher
Canberra : National Museum of Australia Press, 2008.
Place of Publication
Australian Capital Territory
Date Published
2008.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders - Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and others - are known to have occurred for 400 years. This book explores these diverse, subtle, dynamic and volatile first encounters from Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. It also looks at the myriad elements of these cross-...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Strangers on the shore : early coastal contacts in Australia / edited by Peter Veth, Peter Sutton and Margo Neale.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes
General note
"Strangers on the Shore: A Conference on Early Coastal Contacts with Australia held in Canberra on 30-31 March 2006, the first significant event in the calendar after the official launch of AOTM [Australia on the Map: 1606-2006 (Organisation)] on 29 March." -- ix p.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Call Numbers
Q303.482/6 , N303.482/ 84
Record Identifier
74VM8gL058Ld
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM8gL058Ld
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ISBN
9781876944636 (pbk.)
DDC
303.482
MMS ID
991000200129702626
