Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labor Trade

by Tracey Banivanua-mar and Tracey Banivanua Mar

During the post-abolition period a trade in cheap and often cost-neutral labor flourished in the western Pacific. For more than forty years, it supplied tens of thousands of indentured laborers to the sugar industry of northeastern Australia. Violence and Colonial Dialogue tells the story of its impact on the people who were traded.

From the beaches and shallows of the Pacific's frontiers to the plantations and settlements of Queensland...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824830253
• ISBN13: 9780824830250
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"