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Alice Springs : its history & the people who made it / Peter Donovan.
- Title
- Alice Springs : its history & the people who made it / Peter Donovan.
- Author
- Donovan, Peter
- Publication
- Alice Springs, NT : Alice Springs Town Council, 1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DU398.A45 D66 1988 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Alice Springs (N.T.). Town Council.
- Description
- 399 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Covers history of relations between Aborigines and explorers, pastoralists, miners and settlers; conflicts, particularly Barrow Creek and Coniston killings; establishment of Hermannsburg, and Catholic missions and the Bungalow; work of Olive Pink; Aboriginal wartime army labour force; later tensions because of alcoholism, establishment of town camps, land rights movements, threats to sacred sites by expansion of Alice Springs; exposure through film of Jedda, art of Albert Namatjira and CAAMA.
- Subject
- Alice Springs (N.T.) > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-390) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0731633466
- LCCN
- ^^^91163198^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library