The pearl frontier
Subtitle: Indonesian labor and indigenous encounters in Australia's northern trading network
By: Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers
Contributors: Vickers, Adrian, 1958- author
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780824840020
Subjects: Pearl industry and trade; History; Indonesian Foreign workers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Border-crossing on the pearl frontier; title: The birth of the pearling zone, 1860-1890; title: Maritime mobility in eastern Indonesia; title: Master pearlers on both sides of the frontier; title: Labor migration to north Australia, 1901-1941; title: Challenging social segregation; title: War on the pearl frontier; title: Disputed borders on the pearl frontier; title: Marriage and Australian citizenship.