Author: READ, Peter ed.
Title: Settlement: A History of Australian Indigenous Housing.
Description: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2000. Paperback. 4to. Ex-library, otherwise good (no markings to clean text). 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 the dreaded children's dormitory to the compound and its terrors of disease and overcrowding." Includes papers on "The Way it Was: Customary Camps and Houses in the Southern Gulf of Carpentaria", "Space and Time at Ramahyuck, Victoria, 1863-85", "Housing and Colonial Patronage, Alice Springs, 1920-65", "Labour, Control and Protetion: The Kahlin Aboriginal Compound, Darwin, 1911-38" etc. B/W photos and illus. 284pp. ISBN 0855753633.

Keywords: aboriginal aborigine australia australian history urban housing rural regional 20th twentieth century torres strait islander social sociology