Invisible invaders : smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia, 1780-1880 / Judy Campbell.
Invisible invaders : smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia, 1780-1880 / Judy Campbell.
Invisible invaders : smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia, 1780-1880 / Judy Campbell.
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Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2002.
Date
2002.
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614.52108/1
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English
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xiv, 266 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Frank Fenner -- 1. Aboriginal Australians and Old World Diseases -- 2. 'The most dreadful scourge of the human species' -- 3. Myths -- 4. The Indonesian Archipelago 1780-1880 -- 5. Hidden History -- 6. The Frontiers of Eastern Australia 1824-1830 -- 7. The Colony of New South Wales 1828-1...
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Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2002.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
2002.
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"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? As explorers moved further inland, they witnessed other epidemics of smallpox, notably in the late 1820s and early 1830s and again in t...
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Invisible invaders : smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia, 1780-1880 / Judy Campbell.
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Includes bibliography (p. 248-260) and index.
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614.52108/1
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74VvjrwRkDWy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvjrwRkDWy
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0522849393 :
9780522849394 (pbk.)
0522849393 (pbk.)
9780522849394
0522849393
9780522849394 :
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614.521
614.5210899915
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991015181039702626
