Strangers on the Shore : Early Coastal Contact in Australia.
Title:
Strangers on the Shore : Early Coastal Contact in Australia.
Author:
Veth, Peter.
ISBN:
9781921953033
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- 1. Introduction and themes -- 2. Strangers and servants of the company -- 3. Stories about feeling -- 4. 'Strange strangers' -- 5. 'Out-of-country' -- 6. Rock art and cross-cultural interaction in Sydney -- 7. French strangers on Tasmanian shores -- 8. European-Indigenous contactat shore-based whaling sites -- 9. Harvesting the memory -- 10. The mark of marvellous ideas -- 11. Pre-Macassans at Dholtji? -- 12. Looking for the residents of Terra Australis -- 13. The encounter between Captain Cookand Indigenous people at Botany Bay in 1770 reconsidered -- 14. The conciliation of strangers -- 15. The Australian Contact Shipwrecks Program -- References -- Untitled.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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