Dancing with strangers
Subtitle: Europeans and Australians at first contact
By: Inga Clendinnen.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521851374; 9780521616812
Subjects: British -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia.; Europeans -- Cultural assimilation -- Australia.; Immigrants -- Australia -- History.; Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Sydney Region (N.S.W.) -- History.; National characteristics, Australian.; Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History.; Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History.; Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- History.; Australia -- Colonization.; Australia -- Race relations.; Australia -- History -- 1788-1851.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dancing with strangers; title: Meeting the informants; title: Governor Arthur Phillip; title: Captain John Hunter; title: Surgeon-General John White; title: Judge-Advocate David Collins; title: Watkin Tench, Captain-Lieutenant of Marines; title: Settling in; title: What the Australians saw; title: Arabanoo; title: Enter Baneelon; title: Spearing the governor; title: 'Coming in'; title: House guests; title: British sexual politics; title: Australian sexual politics; title: Boat trip to Rose Hill; title: Headhunt; title: On discipline; title: Potato thieves; title: Expedition; title: Crime & punishment : Boladeree; title: Barangaroo; title: Tench goes home; title: Phillip goes home; title: Collins goes home; title: Collins reconsiders; title: Baneelon returned; title: Bungaree; title: Enter Mrs Charles Meredith.