The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network 9780824854829

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Pearl Frontier
Chapter One: Border-Crossing on the Pearl Frontier
Chapter Two: The Birth of the Pearling Zone, 1860–1890
Chapter Three: Maritime Mobility in Eastern Indonesia
Chapter Four: Master Pearlers on Both Sides of the Frontier
Chapter Five: Labor Migration to North Australia, 1901–1941
Chapter Six: Challenging Social Segregation
Chapter Seven: War on the Pearl Frontier
Chapter Eight: Disputed Borders on the Pearl Frontier
Chapter Nine: Marriage and Australian Citizenship
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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