Dancing with strangers : Europeans and Australians at first contact / Inga Clendinnen
- Author:
- Clendinnen, Inga
- Published:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 23 cm
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- British—Cultural assimilation—Australia
- Europeans—Cultural assimilation—Australia
- Immigrants—Australia—History
- Aboriginal—Australians—Australia—Sydney Region (N.S.W.)—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
- ISBN:
- 0521851378 (hbk.)
0521616816 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [316]-321) and index.
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