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Dancing with strangers : Europeans and Australians at first contact / Inga Clendinnen
Bib ID 3704586
Format BookBook
Author Clendinnen, Inga
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Description Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. 
324 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 9780521851374  0521851378  9780521616812 (pbk.)  0521616816 (pbk.) 
Summary

"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 it traces the painful destruction of that hard-won friendship as profound cultural differences asserted themselves."

"A distinguished and award-winning historian of the Spanish encounters with Aztec and Maya Indians of sixteenth-century America, Clendinnen's analysis of the early cultural interactions in Australia touched broader themes of recent historical debate: the perception of others, the meanings of culture, and the nature of colonialism and imperialism."--BOOK JACKET.

Full 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. 
Notes

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

Subjects British - Cultural assimilation - Australia.  |  Europeans - Cultural assimilation - Australia.  |  Immigrants - Australia - History.  |  Aboriginal Australians - New South Wales - Sydney Region - History.  |  National characteristics, Australian.  |  Australia - Emigration and immigration - History.  |  Great Britain - Emigration and immigration - History.  |  Europe - Emigration and immigration - History.  |  Australia - Colonization.  |  Australia - Race relations.  |  Australia - History - 1788-1851.
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