Title Settlement : a history of Australian indigenous housing / edited by Peter Read

Published Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2000

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	363.5999915 Rea/Sah		AVAILABLE
WATERFT ART&ARCH	363.5999915 Rea/Sah		AVAILABLE
WATERFT ART&ARCH	363.5999915 Rea/Sah		AVAILABLE

Description xvi, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm Contents DARW copy in AB Collection Summary A timely book that encompasses the whole history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing from the multiplicity of shelters used in pre-invasion times to the extraordinary cottages built by Victorian missionaries through to the dreaded children's dormitory and the compound with its terrors of disease and overcrowding Analysis Aboriginal missions Aborigines Community housing Government expenditure History Housing Interstate comparisons Public health Rural urban comparisons Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography pages 265-277 Notes Print version record Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Dwellings. Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- History. Aboriginal Australians -- Housing -- Government policy -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Aboriginal Australians -- Housing -- Government policy. Aboriginal Australians -- Housing. Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Social life and customs. Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs. Torres Strait Islanders -- Housing -- Government policy. Torres Strait Islanders -- Housing. Author Read, Peter, 1945- LC no. 00456100 ISBN 0855753633

Other Titles Partial contents: Preliminary material - 1. Settlement : present and past - 2. Settlements of enclosure - 3. Settlement and government - 4. Unsettlement - 5. future settlement - Endmatter

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