A Concise History of New Zealand
Author(s): Philippa Mein Smith
New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. In this new account of New Zealand’s history, Philippa Mein Smith considers this rugged and dynamic land from its break from Gondwana 80 million years ago to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Mein Smith highlights the effects of the country’s smallness and isolation, from late settlement by Polynesian voyagers, very late colonisation and settlement by Europeans, and the interactions that made these people Maori and Pakeha, to struggles over land, and efforts through time to manage global forces. This is a history that places New Zealand in its global and regional context, linked to Britain, immersed in the Pacific, and part of Australasia. Distinctively, this book unravels the ways in which key moments have contributed to the founding of the country’s national myths.
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'... 'a broadening of the histories that have already been written'.' Contemporary Review
Philippa Mein Smith is Associate Professor of History at the University of Canterbury where she researches and teaches New Zealand and Australian history. She is the author of Maternity in Dispute: New Zealand 1920-1939 (1986), Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950 (1997) and A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (with Donald Denoon, 2000), for which she had a co-residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Centre in Bellagio, Italy.
1. Waka across a watery world; 2. Beachcrossers, 1769-1839; 3. Claiming the land, 1840-1860; 4. Remoter Australasia, 1861-1890; 5. Managing globalisation, 1891-1913; 6. 'All flesh is as grass', 1914-1929; 7. Making New Zealand, 1930-1949; 8. Golden Weather, 1950-1973; 9. Latest experiments, 1974-1996; 10. Treaty revival, 1974-2003; 11. Epilogue.
General Fields
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- : Cambridge University Press
- : Cambridge University Press
- : 0.445
- : 01 April 2005
- : 216mm X 138mm X 20mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Philippa Mein Smith
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 993
- : very good
- : 320
- : 38 b/w illus. 7 maps 2 tables