Asian Orientations: Studies in Western Australian History 16 edited by Jan Gothard

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners. A few foxing marks on top and right foredge. Some tiny marks on title page.

These articles suggest that within Western Australia's still-unwritten past it is possible to discern Asian themes which if not central to historical understanding, will nonetheless shed a different light on the continuing reinterpretation of the Australian past (Introduction).

Contents:

• Japanese War Brides in Western Australia: Immigration and Assimilation in the Nineteen Fifties by Julie Easton
• Choice or chance? : Self-employment Among the Vietnamese in Perth, Western Australia by Nonya Peters
• Jumma Khan by Charlie Fox
• Placing Restrictions Upon Them: Controlling "Free" Chinese immigrants and Capital in Western Australia by Anne Atkinson
• Asian Men on the West Kimberley Coast 1900-1940 by Christine Choo
• The Broome Race Riots of 1920 by Michael Schaper
• The Last Colonial Act: The Expulsion of Indonesian Fishermen from the North West Coast by Bruce C Campbell
• The View West: The Indian Ocean Trading World and Western Australia to 1914 by Andrew Pope