Title The pearl frontier : Indonesian labor and indigenous encounters in Australia's northern trading network / Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers

Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Border-crossing on the pearl frontier -- The birth of the pearling zone, 1860-1890 -- Maritime mobility in eastern Indonesia -- Master pearlers on both sides of the frontier -- Labor migration to north Australia, 1901-1941 -- Challenging social segregation -- War on the pearl frontier -- Disputed borders on the pearl frontier -- Marriage and Australian citizenship Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Pearl industry and trade -- Australia, Northern -- History. Pearl industry and trade -- Indonesia -- History. Foreign workers, Indonesian -- Australia, Northern. SUBJECT Australia, Northern http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010749 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Form Electronic book Author Vickers, Adrian, 1958- author Project Muse. ISBN 0824854829 (electronic bk.) 9780824854829 (electronic bk.)

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