Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia

Explores the successive phases of Asian-Aboriginal contact in Australian’s north, from the Macassan trepangers to the pearling industry and on to more recent times. Challenging the ‘white Australia’ perspective as descriptive of the whole continent, the author argues that Australian settlement history starts in the north, with the well-documented Makassan trade. Both numerically and in terms of their impact on Aboriginal policy, Asians have continued to play a dominant role in the north and therefore in Australia, and are implicated in the Stolen Generation.

Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Date Published: 2006
Book Condition: Near fine hardcover with minor surface and edge wear to dust jacket. Otherwise, a near fine and unmarked copy internally.