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24 Jul 2005 05:10:45 AM |
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OT: Inga Clendinnen |
'Dancing With Strangers': Spearing the Governor
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/books/review/24HOCHSCH.html?pagewanted=all
By ADAM HOCHSCHILD
Published: July 24, 2005
FROM the 16th through the 19th centuries, one corner of the earth after
another saw encounters between peoples who previously had not even
known each other existed. From Plymouth Rock to Brazil, Mexico to the
Cape of Good Hope, Europeans stepped ashore from their storm-battered
ships and planted flags, dug mines, started towns, farms, plantations,
almost always on land where someone else was already living.
History is always written by the victors -- at least at first. The
Europeans spread out around the world, textbooks long said, to build
their city on a hill in Massachusetts, to bring Christianity to Africa,
to spread their mission civilatrice or the great benefits of free trade
to other parts of the world. The history an American studied in grade
school in the 1950's gave little hint that the arrival of the brave
Pilgrims and later immigrants might have boded ill for the Indians of
North America. Someone going to school in South Africa at the same time
would have learned that the major conflict in that country's history
was between Briton and Boer.
DANCING WITH STRANGERS
Europeans and Australians at First Contact.
By Inga Clendinnen.
Illustrated. 324 pp. Cambridge University Press. Cloth, $60. Paper,
$21.99.
Inga Clendinnen
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