Settlement: A History of Australian Indigenous Housing

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Peter Read
Aboriginal Studies Press, 2000 - Architecture - 284 pages
Both comprehensive and intriguing, this history traces the 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 its horrors of disease and overcrowding.

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Settlement: A History of Australian Indigenous Housing
Peter Read
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About the author (2000)

Peter Read has worked extensively as a historian of Aboriginal Australia and is a professorial research fellow at the University of Sydney.

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TitleSettlement: A History of Australian Indigenous Housing
EditorPeter Read
Editionillustrated
PublisherAboriginal Studies Press, 2000
ISBN0855753633, 9780855753634
Length284 pages
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Architecture / Regional
Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Australian & Oceanian Studies
Social Science / Indigenous Studies
  
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