Invasion and Resistance: Aboriginal-European Relations on the North Queensland Frontier, 1861-1897 Tapa dura - 1982

Canberra, Australian National University press, 1982. Hardcover. Good. Spine dust jacket sunned; piece bottom back dust jacket missing.

Canberra ACT : Australian National University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers are foxed and there is some scattered foxing in the text Edges browned and foxed Hardcover has some marks and fading on the spine North Queensland has long been a frontier province of Aboriginal Australia. Well before Europeans penetrated to the south-west Pacific, the Torres Strait Islanders had regular and extensive contact with Aboriginal groups in Cape York Peninsula and the Dutch had visited the coast at intervals since 1606. Not till the coming of the white settler in the mid nineteenth century, however, did ‘invasion’ begin. When it did, the Aborigines were dispossessed of their land and, since in British eyes they had no title to it, resistance was considered a criminal activity.This book… Leer más

Canberra: Australian National University, 1982. xviii, 325pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw ills, maps. Or brown cloth in jacket. Spine faded otherwise excellent. Studies Aboriginal-European relations on four frontiers of conflict- pastoral, mining, rainforest and sea. A challenging look at the frontier war in North Queensland.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.