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Author Clendinnen, Inga.

Title Dancing with strangers : the true history of the meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788 / Inga Clendinnen
Published Edinburgh : Canongate, 2005

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 ADPML SPC  994.410049915 Cle/Dws 2005  LIB USE ONLY
Description 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Contents Introduction -- Dancing with strangers -- Meeting the informants -- Governor Arthur Phillip -- Captain John Hunter -- Surgeon-General John White -- Judge-Advocate David Collins -- Watkin Tench, Captain-Lieutenant of Marines -- Settling in -- What the Australians saw -- Arabanoo -- Enter Baneelon -- Spearing the Govenor -- 'Coming in' -- House guests -- British sexual politics -- Australian sexual politics -- Boat trip to Rose Hill -- Headhunt -- On discipline -- Potato thieves -- Expedition -- Crime & punishment : Boladeree -- Barangaroo -- Tench gomes hone -- Phillip goes home -- Collins reconsiders -- Baneelon returned -- Bungaree -- Enter Mrs Charles Meredith -- Epilogue
Notes Originally published: Melbourne, Vic.: Text, 2003; Edinburgh: Canongate, 2005
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject British -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia.
Immigrants -- Australia -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Sydney Regional (N.S.W.) -- History
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Emmigration and immigration -- History
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117808 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Australia -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100476
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Colonialisation
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