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    Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

    Inga Clendinnen

    Dancing with Strangers is Inga Clendinnen’s seminal account of the moment in January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour and a thousand British men and women, some…

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    Aztecs: An Interpretation

    Inga Clendinnen (La Trobe University, Victoria)

    Inga Clendinnen’s account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the…

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    Inga Clendinnen: Selected Writings

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    Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia’s greatest writers and thinkers. This selection covers the full scope of her writing, from Tiger’s Eye to Aztecs, from Boyer Lectures to essays on…

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    Agamemnon’s Kiss: Selected Essays

    Inga Clendinnen

    Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to…

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    Reading the Holocaust

    Inga Clendinnen

    Provides the reader with an extraordinary account and analysis of all areas of this chilling period of history: from the witnesses and survivors of death camps such as Prmio Levi…

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    Inga Clendinnen

    James Boyce

    An internationally celebrated historian and highly original thinker, Inga Clendinnen compelled readers to re-examine accepted histories from new angles. Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia's greatest writers and thinkers. This…

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    Inga Clendinnen: Selected Writings

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    An internationally celebrated historian and highly original thinker, Inga Clendinnen compelled readers to re-examine accepted histories from new angles. Inga Clendinnen was one of Australia’s greatest writers and thinkers. This…

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    The History Question: Who Owns the Past?: Quarterly Essay 23

    Inga Clendinnen

    Looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars, and asks what’s at stake, what kind of history do we want and need? The author discusses what good…

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    Tiger’s Eye: A Memoir

    Inga Clendinnen

    An astonishing memoir by one of Australia’s greatest writers. Clendinnen takes us on a journey into dangerous territory in which her body, her mind and her life are irrevocably changed…

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    Quarterly Essay 23 The History Question: Who Owns the Past

    Inga Clendinnen

    In the third Quarterly Essay for 2006, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what’s at stake - what kind of history…

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    Dancing With Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians, 1788

    Inga Clendinnen

    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;

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    The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society: Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture

    Inga Clendinnen

    A collection of pathbreaking essays on Aztec and Maya culture in the sixteenth century.

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    Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact

    Inga Clendinnen

    Dancing with Strangers, first published in 2005, tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there. Using some of…

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    Inga Clendinnen

    Dancing with Strangers, first published in 2005, tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there. Using some of…

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    The Cost of Courage in Aztec Society: Essays on Mesoamerican Society and Culture

    Inga Clendinnen

    A collection of pathbreaking essays on Aztec and Maya culture in the sixteenth century.

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    Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570

    Inga Clendinnen (La Trobe University, Victoria)

    European domination and native resistance play significant roles in this analysis of Mayan conversion amid Spanish visions of 16th century Yucatan.

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    Reading the Holocaust

    Inga Clendinnen (La Trobe University, Victoria)

    Clendinnen explores the Holocaust from both the victims’ and the perpetrators’ points of view.

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    Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570

    Inga Clendinnen (La Trobe University, Victoria)

    European domination and native resistance play significant roles in this analysis of Mayan conversion amid Spanish visions of 16th century Yucatan.

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    Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570

    Inga Clendinnen (La Trobe University, Victoria)

    Both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial…

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