Peter Corris - Passage, Port and Plantation

by Peter Corris

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First edition

Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration, 1870-1914 by Peter Corris is a scholarly history of the movement of thousands of Solomon Islanders to Queensland and other Pacific colonies as indentured labourers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book examines the recruitment process, the often controversial labour trade known as "blackbirding," the experiences of island workers on sugar plantations and other enterprises, and the impact of migration on both the Solomon Islands and colonial Australia. Drawing on extensive archival research, Corris explores the economic, social, and political dimensions of this labour system and its place within the broader history of imperialism and Pacific colonialism.

• Publisher: Melbourne University Press
• Year: 1973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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