Strangers on the Shore: Early Coastal Contact in Australia

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...

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Main Author: Veth, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra, ACT National Museum of Australia 2008
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Online Access:KUBA1
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 crosscultural exchanges, which resulted in profound outcomes for the First Australians
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Physical Description:1 online resource (221 pages)
ISBN:9781921953033
9781876944636

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