Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact - Couverture souple

Clendinnen, Inga

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521616816 ISBN 13 : 9780521616812

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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. This 2005 book offers a 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Inga Clendinnen is Emeritus Scholar in History at La Trobe University. She is also the author of Aztecs (Cambridge, 1991), Reading the Holocaust (Cambridge, 1999), and Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in the Yucatan, 1517-1570 (2nd edition 2003, Cambridge).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521616816
• ISBN 13: 9780521616812
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 346
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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