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An edition of Dancing with strangers (2003)

Dancing with strangers

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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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Language
English
Pages
324

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Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics
2017, Text Publishing Company
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Dancing with Strangers
May 25, 2006, Canongate Books
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Dancing with strangers: Europeans and Australians at first contact
2005, Cambridge University Press
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Dancing with Strangers
2005, Cambridge University Press
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Dancing with strangers
2003, Text Pub.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-321) and index.

Published in
Melbourne

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
994.410049915
Library of Congress
DU122.B7 C57 2003, DU122.B7C57 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
324 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
324

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Open Library
OL3369286M
ISBN 10
1877008583
LCCN
2004444344
OCLC/WorldCat
53346044
Library Thing
86812
Goodreads
1774725

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