North of Capricorn : the untold story of Australia's north
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書誌事項
North of Capricorn : the untold story of Australia's north
Allen & Unwin, 2003
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
When you stand on Cape York, at Australia's northernmost tip, you are closer to Vanuatu than Canberra; as close to Manila as Melbourne. A tension between Australia's Southeast Asian geography and its British colonial history is key to the country's identity. And nowhere was this more vividly played out than in the towns of Australia's tropical north during the last years of the 19th century. These towns - from Mackay to Broome - were successful, dynamic, multi-racial societies peopled with Melanesian caneworkers, Chinese entrepreneurs, Japanese deep-sea divers and adventurers from as far away as Polynesia and Ceylon. Darwin did more business with Hong Kong than with most Australian cities. The prosperous pearling masters of Broome went shopping in Singapore, sent their laundry there and placed orders there for their white tailored suits. Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders mixed freely with the multi-racial population in these towns - and faced less discrimination than in the whiter South. But these "piebald" societies were a threat, an affront to the new nation obsessed, in the words of the Prime Minister, with "the purity of race".
And they would soon be snuffed out by the introduction of the White Australia policy in 1901 - the first social legislation of the brand-new federal government. In this book, Henry Reynolds brings to life this little-known history, revealing an Australia that might have been - and the Australia that would eventually come to be: a small European enclave at the bottom of the Asia-Pacific hemisphere.
目次
INTRODUCTION1. Aboriginal Australia vii2. The Black Workforce 13. Mackay and the Melanesians 174. 'Eating with the Chows' - The Chinese in Far North Queensland 615. Thursday Island - A Multi-racial Gibraltar 856. Darwin and the Chinese Territorians 1057. Broome: 'An Ethnological Museum' 1238. The Confronting North 1459. Unity of Race10. White Australia - Its Victims and CriticsNotesIndex
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