Dancing with Strangers Europeans and Australians at First Contact

Name: Dancing with Strangers Europeans and Australians at First Contact
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ISBN: 9780521616812

ISBN-10: 0521616816

ISBN-13: 9780521616812

Edition: 2005

Authors: Inga Clendinnen

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In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia 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 these Aborigines. Inga Clendinnen interprets the earliest written sources, and the reports, letters and journals of the first British settlers in Australia. She reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon) that was ultimately destroyed by the assertion of profound cultural differences. A Prize-winning archaeologist, anthropologist and…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




Introduction



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 disciple



Potato thieves



Expedition



Crime and punishment: Boladeree



Barangaroo



Tench goes home



Phillip goes home



Collins goes home



Collins reconsiders



Baneelon returned



Bungaree



Enter Mrs Charles Meredith



Epilogue