Table of Contents

Illustrations

Maps

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I: CONTROLLING SEA SPACE - GEOPOLITICS, WAR AND NAVAL POLICY

1 Aboriginal Settlement and European Expansionism: British Australia in the Asia-Pacific Region

2 Independent Australia: Security and the Dilemmas of Self-reliance

PART II: OVERCOMING DISTANCE - SHIPPING, SETTLEMENT AND PORTS

3 Bridging the Oceans: Ships, Cargoes and Passengers

4 Exploration, Settlement and Coastal Shipping

5 The Heart of Maritime Life: Australia's Ports and Port Cities

PART III: LIVING WITH THE SEA - WORK, CULTURE AND LIFESTYLE

6 Australians Offshore: Harvesting the Sea

7 Maritime Workers and their Unions

8 A Culture of the Sea

9 The Sea in Australia's Life

Endnotes

Select Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

Shortlisted, Historical and Critical Studies Prize, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards 1998

About the Author

Frank Broeze's books include Brides of the Sea, Mr Brooks and the Australian Trade and Maritime History at the Crossroads. A past president of the International Commission of Maritime History, he is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia.