Inga Clendinnen

Dancing with Strangers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In January of 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be their new neighbours;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 146mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9781841956992
• ISBN-10: 1841956996
• Artikelnr.: 22405270

Autorenporträt

Inga Clendinnen

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"In this book Inga Clendinnen breathes new life into early contact between indigenous and incoming peoples in Sydney, Australia, during the late eighteenth century...This book is a wonderful rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of cross-cultural contact, and is highly recommended." - American Historical Review, Fiona Paisley, Griffith University