Dancing with Strangers
Dancing with Strangers
£25.00
GBPIn 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. This 2005 book offers a 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.
- Narrative and easily accessible history of what happened between the first British settlers of New South Wales and the people they found living there
- Small episode explores broader questions relating to culture, values, and historical knowledge
Product details
June 2005Paperback
9780521616812
346 pages
229 × 152 × 20 mm
0.51kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Dancing with strangers
- 3. Meeting the informants
- 4. Governor Arthur Phillip
- 5. Captain John Hunter
- 6. Surgeon-General John White
- 7. Judge-Advocate David Collins
- 8. Watkin Tench, Captain-Lieutenant of Marines
- 9. Settling in
- 10. What the Australians saw
- 11. Arabanoo
- 12. Enter Baneelon
- 13. Spearing the Governor
- 14. 'Coming In'
- 15. House guests
- 16. British sexual politics
- 17. Australian sexual politics
- 18. Boat trip to Rose Hill
- 19. Headhunt
- 20. On disciple
- 21. Potato thieves
- 22. Expedition
- 23. Crime and punishment: Boladeree
- 24. Barangaroo
- 25. Tench goes home
- 26. Phillip goes home
- 27. Collins goes home
- 28. Collins reconsiders
- 29. Baneelon returned
- 30. Bungaree
- 31. Enter Mrs Charles Meredith
- 32. Epilogue.
