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1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction : violence, language, and colonial dialogue -- The frontiers : savages, going native, and the rightness of might -- Survival, arrival, and growth : the world islanders built -- The settler colony : Kanakas, Blacks, and racial borderlands -- South Sea islanders resisting Kanakas : identity, consciousness, and community to 1906 -- The state : inside colonial violence, law, and order -- Bulimen, hardwork, and muscular tension -- Conclusion : structural continuity and the violence of forgetting |
| Summary |
During the post-abolition period a trade in cheap and often cost-neutral labor flourished in the western Pacific. For more than forty years, it supplied tens of thousands of indentured laborers to the sugar industry of northeastern Australia. Violence and Colonial Dialogue tells the story of its impact on the people who were traded. From the beaches and shallows of the Pacific's frontiers to the plantations and settlements of Queensland and beyond, a collective tale of the pioneers of today's Australian South Sea Island community is told through an abundant and effective use of materials that characterize the colonial record, including police registers, court records, prison censuses, administrative reports, legislative debates, and oral histories. With a thematic focus on the physical violence that was central to the experience of people who were voluntarily or involuntarily recruited, the history that emerges is a powerful tale that is at once both tragic and triumphant |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-259) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Indentured servants -- Australia -- Queensland -- History
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Sugar workers -- Australia -- Queensland -- History
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Sugar trade -- Australia -- Queensland -- History
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Pacific Islanders -- Australia -- Queensland -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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British colonies
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Indentured servants
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Pacific Islanders
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Race relations
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Sugar trade
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Sugar workers
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Zuckerindustrie
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Zuckerhandel
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Arbeiter
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Arbeitsbedingungen
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Kolonialismus
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Zuckerrohrplantage
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Great Britain -- Australia -- Colonies
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Australia -- Race relations
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Great Britain -- Colonies.
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Australia
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Queensland
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Queensland
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Großbritannien
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Ozeanier.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435666153 |
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1435666151 |
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9780824865467 |
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0824865464 |
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