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A touch of Dutch : maritime, military, migration and mercantile connections on the Western Third 1616-2016 / coordinating author, Nonja Peters ; [forewords by] Annemieke Ruigrok, Brett Mason
Bib ID 7245777
Format BookBook [text, still image, volume]
Description [Subiaco, Western Australia] : Carina Hoang Communications, [2016] 
©2016 
896 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 25 cm 
ISBN 9780987158444 (paperback)
Summary

"This splendidly book is about the 400-year heritage Australia shares with the Netherlands, that began with the movement of the Dutch East India Company into the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) from the late 1500s. in involuntary encounter with the Western Australian shore literally put Terra Australia Incognita (the Great South Land) on World cartographic maps. It is the first ever, comprehensive volume written on the maritime, military, migration and mercantile Dutch-Australian connections. Its 34 contributing authors present various aspects of a very rich and diverse heritage."--Back cover.

Full contents
  • General introduction / Nonja Peters
  • Section One: maritime / Nonja Peters
  • Chapter 1. Dirk Hartog was here! His 1616 inscription plate and Dutch ship communications / Wendy van Duivenvoorde
  • Chapter 2. Aborigines and shipwrecks - the arrival of Australia's first immigrants / Rupert Gerritson
  • Remarkable voyage of Abraham Leeman in 1658 / Rupert Gerritson
  • Chapter 3. Anthropological analyses of human skeletal remains assocated with the Batavia Mutiny of 1629 / Daniel Franklin
  • Molecular analyses of human skeletal remains of the Batavia Mutiny victims / Daniel Franklin
  • Section Two: military / Nonja Peters
  • Chapter 4. One-way flight to hell: Nei Dutch refugee experiences to the Japanese air raid at Broome, Western Australia 3 March 1942 / Silvano Jung
  • Chapter 5. Diamond mystery / Marrianne van Velzen and Juliet Wills
 
Notes

Colour maps on end papers.

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects Dutch -- Western Australia -- History.  |  Netherlands -- History, Naval.  |  Netherlands -- History, Military.  |  Western Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- Dutch.  |  Western Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History.  |  Netherlands -- Foreign economic relations -- Australia.  |  Australia -- Foreign economic relations -- Netherlands.  |  Australian
Other authors/contributors Peters, Nonja, author  |  Ruigrok, Annemieke, writer of foreword  |  Mason, Brett, 1962- writer of foreword

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