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:
- Book
- Description:
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- [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:
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"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:
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- 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
- Chapter 6. Ductch turn up down under / Sally R May
- Chapter 7. Remarkable defence: Shell Tanker Odina / Reginald Appleyard
- Chapter 8. Operation Potshot: Dutch airmen in the defence of Western Australia, 1944 / Charles S. Easton and Silvano Jung
- Chapter 9. Netherlands East Indies Dutch: experiences of war, occupation, revolution and evacuation, and rehabilitiation in Australia 1942-1946 / Nonja Peters
- Chapter 10. 'These were wild times': the evacuation of Dutch nationals from the former Netherlands East Indies to Western Australia, 1945-46 / Nonja Peters
- Chapter 11. Through the looking-glass: an Australian war bride writes home / Christina Houen
- Section three: migration / Nonja Peters
- Chapter 12. Johanna Bruce - nee Herklots and family 1850 - 1917 / Nonja Peters
- Chapter 13. Dutch socialist connection with WA / Neil Foley
- Chapter 13. Dutch socialist pioneer links with Dutch literary giants / Alet Doornbusch and family
- Chapter 15. Fremantle: first steps to a new future / Marijke Eybertse-van Schaik
- Chapter 16. Leaving from the netherlands / Nonja Peters
- Chapter 17. Hervormde Kerk in Perth / Jan Pritchard
- Chapter 18. Boomerang Church Youth Club / Jan Pritchard
- Chapter 19. Free Reformed Community in Western Australia / Aart Plug
- Chapter 20. Double Dutch - the Dutch language in Western Australia / Anne Pauwels
- Chapter 21. Roller coaster migrants / Anne Rietvedd (nee Rijinders)
- Chapter 22. Ticket to a 'new life' / Henry Crijins-Coenen
- Chapter 23. Making a Dutch home in Western Australia from the 1950s / Nonja Peters
- Chapter 24. Impressions - reflections / Beth Vermeulen
- Chapter 25. Between two worlds: second generation Dutch migratns in Western Australia / Kim Negenmann
- Section four: mercantile / Nonja Peters
- Chapter 26. Dutch labour in Western Australia / Nonja Peters
- Chapter 27. Emigration: my story / Peter Rietvedd
- Chapter 28. Migration experience of the Woerlee family / Gerard Woerlee and Anna Ward
- Chapter 29. Plug family business / Aart Plug
- Chapter 30. Doorhouse / The Wiemann Family
- Chapter 31. Dutch in business: the high end of town / Arnold Stroobach
- Section five: 21st century Dutch interests / Nonja Peters
- Chapter 32. Sense of place: being Dutch in WA / Nonja Peters
- Chapter 33. History of Dutch clubs in Perth - WA 1950s-2016 / Peter Leeflang and Lianna Parker
- Chapter 34. Dutch School 'De Schakel' / Wilna Cornelisse
- Chapter 35. Floating: an exhibition of artworks at the Fremantle Arts Centre by Dutch-Australians / Nien Schwartz
- Chapter 36. Photography of Richard Woldendorp / Di Ingelse - Yarrall
- Chapter 37. Our mob: shipwreck survivors and WA Aboriginal peoples / Nonja Peters and Geert Snoeijer
- Chapter 38. Tracing your Dutch ancestors in the National Archives of Australia / Marjorie Bly
- Author and contributor biographies.
- Notes:
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- Colour maps on end papers.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
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- 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
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- Copyright:
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