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The first five years.(Dancing with Strangers)(Tom & Jack: A Frontier Story)(Book Review)

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| July 01, 2004 | Murray, Robert | COPYRIGHT 2004 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

INGA CLENDINNEN'S Dancing with Strangers is the most detailed book yet on race relations in the first five years of the Sydney settlement and one of the most thorough I have seen on the subject anywhere.Her main--rich and rewarding--source material is the journals, letters and other writings of no fewer than fifteen of the First Fleet's senior officers and surgeons, who wrote often copiously and for posterity, aware that they were creating a new society in a strange land. She has compared minutely what they have had to say about many an incident or characteristic at the infant colony and teased out biases, in a way that should not displease postmodemists. Fortunately, ...

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