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An edition of Dancing with strangers (2003)

Dancing with strangers

Europeans and Australians at first contact

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In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there. Inga Clendinnen offers a fresh reading of the earliest written sources, the reports, letters, and journals of the first British settlers in Australia. It reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon); and then traces the painful destruction of that hard-won friendship. A distinguished and award-winning historian of the Spanish encounters with Aztec and Maya indians of sixteenth-century America, Clendinnen's analysis of early cultural interactions in Australia touches broader themes of recent historical debates: the perception of the Other, the meanings of culture, and the nature of colonialism and imperialism.

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
324

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Subjects

Race relations Cultural assimilation Immigrants British Colonization Nonfiction Australian National characteristics Emigration and immigration History Aboriginal Australians Europeans World history Immigrants, australia National characteristics, australian Australia, emigration and immigration Great britain, emigration and immigration Australia, colonization Australia, race relations Australia, history Great britain, emigration commission Great britain, history Effect of colonization on First Fleet, 1787-1788

Places

Australia Europe Great Britain Sydney Region (N.S.W.)

Times

1788-1851
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Dancing with Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians 1788
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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
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2005, Cambridge University Press
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2005, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Dancing with strangers
Meeting the informants
Governor Arthur Phillip
Captain John Hunter
Surgeon-General John White
Judge-Advocate David Collins
Watkin Tench, Captain-Lieutenant of Marines
Settling in
What the Australians saw
Arabanoo
Enter Baneelon
Spearing the governor
'Coming in'
House guests
British sexual politics
Australian sexual politics
Boat trip to Rose Hill
Headhunt
On discipline
Potato thieves
Expedition
Crime & punishment : Boladeree
Barangaroo
Tench goes home
Phillip goes home
Collins goes home
Collins reconsiders
Baneelon returned
Bungaree
Enter Mrs Charles Meredith.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-321) and index.

Published in
Cambridge, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
994
Library of Congress
DU122.B7 C57 2005, DU122.B7

The Physical Object

Pagination
324 p., 8 p. of plates :
Number of pages
324

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3398219M
ISBN 10
0521851378, 0521616816
ISBN 13
9780521851374, 9780521616812
LCCN
2005011523
OCLC/WorldCat
57430557
LibraryThing
86812
Goodreads
693147
1584197

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Work ID
OL4480436W

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