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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 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.
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Race relations, Cultural assimilation, Immigrants, British, Colonization, Nonfiction, Australian National characteristics, Emigration and immigration, History, Aboriginal Australians, Europeans, World history, Immigrants, australia, National characteristics, australian, Australia, emigration and immigration, Great britain, emigration and immigration, Australia, colonization, Australia, race relations, Australia, history, Great britain, emigration commission, Great britain, history, Effect of colonization on, First Fleet, 1787-1788Places
Australia, Europe, Great Britain, Sydney Region (N.S.W.)Times
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Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics
2017, Text Publishing Company
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Dancing with Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians 1788
2012, Canongate Books
in English
0857867636 9780857867636
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Dancing with strangers: Europeans and Australians at first contact
2005, Cambridge University Press
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0521851378 9780521851374
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-321) and index.
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