Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index.
Contents:
Tradition and transformation in a non-colonised state: Thailand -- Tradition and transformation in a non-colonised state: Spain -- Colonised people and the nation-state: Aboriginal Australia -- Modernity and human rights.
Summary:
This book is a story. It's a story about ordinary people in very different parts of the world dealing with rapid change in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Thai factory workers in the 1970s; Spanish nuns in the 1980s; Aboriginal people in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia from the 1980s to the present.
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