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Dancing with strangers : Europeans and Australians at first contact / Inga Clendinnen.

Author/creator Clendinnen, Inga
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 23 cm
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.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [316]-321) and index.
LCCN 2005011523
ISBN0521851378 (hbk.)
ISBN0521616816 (pbk.)
ISBN9780521851374
ISBN9780521616812

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