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Canberra, Australian National University press, Date: 1982. Hardcover. Good. Spine dust jacket sunned; piece bottom back dust jacket missing. 1982. Canberra, Australian National University press ISBN 0708115217 9780708115213 [NL]
Canberra ACT : Australian National University Press, Date: 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 studies Aboriginal-European relations on four different frontiers of contact. Though the pastoral industry led to the colonisation of most of North Queensland other parts were also the scene of confrontation: the gold mines, the timber-getting areas of the rainforest which later were settled by farmers and the pearl-shell and bêche-de-mer areas on the far north coast. In all areas, despite sometimes armed resistance by the Aborigines, the Europeans imposed their author ...
Canberra: Australian National University, Date: 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. 1982. Australian National University ISBN 0708115217 9780708115213 [AU]
ISBN10: 0708115217, ISBN13: 9780708115213, [publisher: Australian National University, Canberra] Hardcover First Edition 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. Size: 8vo [Ashmore, QLD, Australia] [Publication Year: 1982]
Canberra Australian National University 1982 First Edition Hard Cover Fine in Very Good jacket 8vo. 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.
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