The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network
The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network
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珍珠前沿：澳大利亚北部贸易网络中印尼劳工和原住民的遭遇
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10.21313/hawaii/9780824840020.001.0001
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2015
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A. Vickers
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Julia T. Martínez;A. Vickers
《珍珠边疆》以其细致的档案研究和动人的生活故事而引人注目，它提供了一种想象澳大利亚与印度尼西亚历史联系的新方式。这种从底层视角对海上流动的引人入胜的审视表明，在对珍贵珍珠贝的殖民探索中，澳大利亚人如何依赖印度尼西亚岛民的技能和劳动力，将他们纳入其北部珍珠贸易帝国。从19世纪60年代起，珍珠贝产业随着英国在澳大利亚北部海岸的殖民征服而发展，并促使荷兰巩固其对荷属东印度的控制。受海盗和无价珍珠故事的启发，珍珠边疆见证了一场海上淘金热；商人、企业家和自愿的工人来自世界各地。但像许多其他边疆地区一样，它很快因依赖对土著和印度尼西亚工人的类似奴隶的条件而声名狼藉。这些指控促使实施了一种严格的契约劳工移民制度，这种制度持续了近一个世纪，直到在非殖民化时代受到国际批评才让步。《珍珠边疆》邀请读者走出国界的狭隘限制，将航海民族视为一个连续的群体，尽管存在政治、战争和语言的障碍，他们仍在流动和交流。本书没有采用定居者殖民地和欧洲帝国所宣扬的种族纯洁的神话，而是剖析了澳大利亚 - 印度尼西亚海域周边港口城市的社会和经济生活，揭示了塑造其历史和现状的复杂的国际化关系。朱莉娅·马丁内斯和阿德里安·维克斯结合他们在澳大利亚和印度尼西亚历史方面的专业知识，挑战澳大利亚过去的孤立主义观点。本书探讨了亚洲移民以及反对限制性的“白澳政策”的斗争如何留下了丰富的亚洲 - 土著混合遗产，这种遗产在澳大利亚北部海岸线延续至今。这本书对东南亚沿海或帕西西尔文化的研究做出了重要贡献，它将当地文化置于区域背景中，并展示了印度尼西亚航海民族如何作为契约劳工成为全球移民流的一部分。它讲述了一个此前未被讲述的印度尼西亚人在澳大利亚的散居故事，并揭示了一定程度的印度洋 - 太平洋相互联系，这迫使我们重新思考区域边界和国界的构建。
Remarkable for its meticulous archival research and moving life stories, the Pearl Frontier offers a new way of imagining Australian historical connections with Indonesia. This compelling view from below of maritime mobility demonstrates how, in the colonial quest for the valuable pearl-shell, Australians came to rely on the skill and labor of Indonesian islanders, drawing them into their northern pearling trade empire. From the 1860s onwards the pearl-shell industry developed alongside British colonial conquests across Australia's northern coast and prompted the Dutch to consolidate their hold over the Netherlands East Indies. Inspired by tales of pirates and priceless pearls, the pearl frontier witnessed the maritime equivalent of a gold rush; with traders, entrepreneurs, and willing workers coming from across the globe. But like so many other frontier zones it soon became notorious for its reliance on slave-like conditions for Indigenous and Indonesian workers. These allegations prompted the imposition of a strict regime of indentured labor migration that was to last for almost a century before giving way to international criticism in the era of decolonization. The Peal Frontier invites the reader to step outside the narrow confines of national boundaries, to see seafaring peoples as a continuous population, moving and in communication in spite of the obstacles of politics, warfare, and language. Instead of the mythologies of racial purity, propagated by settler colonies and European empires, this book dissects the social and economic life of the port cities around the Australian-Indonesian maritime zone and lays open the complex, cosmopolitan relationships which shaped their histories and their present situations. Julia MartYnez and Adrian Vickers bring together their expertise on Australian and Indonesian history to challenge the isolationist view of Australia's past. This book explores how Asian migration and the struggle against the restrictive White Australia policy left a rich legacy of mixed Asian-Indigenous heritage that lives on along Australia's northern coastline. This book is an important contribution to studies of the coastal or Pasisir culture of Southeast Asia, that situates the local cultures in a regional context and demonstrates how Indonesian maritime peoples became part of global migration flows as indentured laborers. It offers a hitherto untold story of Indonesian diaspora in Australia and reveals a degree of Indian-Pacific interconnectedness that forces us to rethink the construction of regional boundaries and national borders.