Research Catalog

Title

North of Capricorn : the untold story of Australia's north / Henry Reynolds.

Author

Reynolds, Henry, 1938-

Publication

Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2003.

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Details

Description

xvi, 220 pages : illustrations, portraits; 27 cm

Summary

Leading Australian historian Henry Reynolds brings to life the country's diverse and thriving far North in the last years of the 19th century - and the changes that were wrought there by a new national government obsessed with 'racial purity'. A major work; densely illustrated and thoroughly researched.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• National characteristics, Australian
• Multiculturalism > Australia
• Ethnology > Australia
• Nationalism > Australia
• Racism > Australia
• Australians
• Australiens
• Multiculturalisme > Australie
• Ethnologie > Australie
• Nationalisme > Australie
• Racisme > Australie
• Commerce
• Ethnology
• Multiculturalism
• Nationalism
• Race relations
• Racism
• Australia > Race relations
• Australia > Commerce > Asia
• Asia > Commerce > Australia
• Australia > History > 20th century
• Australie > Relations raciales
• Australie > Commerce > Asie
• Asie > Commerce > Australie
• Australie > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Asia
• Australia

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Aboriginal Australia -- The Black Workforce -- Mackay and the Melanesians -- 'Eating with the Chows'-The Chinese in Far North Queensland -- Thursday Island-A Multi-racial Gibraltar -- Darwin and the Chinese Territorians -- Broome-An 'Ethnological Museum' -- The Confronting North -- Unity of Race -- White Australia-Its Victims and Critics.

ISBN

• 1865080306
• 9781865080307

LCCN

2004353488

OCLC

• 53902789
• SCSB-10586651

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library