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Martínez, Julia, author.
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Pearl industry and trade -- Australia, Northern -- History.
Pearl industry and trade -- Indonesia -- History.
Foreign workers, Indonesian -- Australia, Northern.
Australia, Northern -- History.
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The pearl frontier :...
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The pearl frontier : Indonesian labor and indigenous encounters in Australia's northern trading network / Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers.
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Martínez, Julia, author.
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2015.
Subjects
Pearl industry and trade -- Australia, Northern -- History.
Pearl industry and trade -- Indonesia -- History.
Foreign workers, Indonesian -- Australia, Northern.
Australia, Northern -- History.
ISBN:
9780824840020 (hardcover : alk. paper)
082484002X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description:
xi, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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.
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