Inga Clendinnen

Dancing With Strangers (eBook, ePUB)

The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788

• Format: ePub

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; the beach nomads of Australia. "These people mixed with ours," wrote a British observer soon after the landfall, "and all hands danced together." What followed would determine relations between the peoples for the next two hundred years. Drawing skilfully on first-hand accounts and historical records, Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the complex dance of curiosity, attraction and mistrust performed by the protagonists of either side. She brings this key chapter in British colonial history brilliantly alive. Then we discover why the dancing stopped . . .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857867636
• Artikelnr.: 39261528

Autorenporträt

INGA CLENDINNEN is a distinguished historian and author. Reading the Holocaust was named a New York Times Best Book of the Year and was awarded the New South Wales Premier's General History Award in 1999. Her subsequent work, Tiger's Eye was awarded the 2002 Adelaide Festival Award for Innovation and the Nita B.Kibble Award for Women Writers 2001 and was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Award 2000. Her essays and short stories have been widely published.

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