A Concise History of New ZealandNew Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million years ago to the twenty-first century. Philippa Mein Smith highlights the effects of the country's smallness and isolation, from its late settlement by Polynesian voyagers and colonisation by Europeans - and the exchanges that made these people Maori and Pakeha - to the dramatic struggles over land and recent efforts to manage global forces. A Concise History of New Zealand places New Zealand in its global and regional context. It unravels key moments - the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the Anzac landing at Gallipoli, the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - showing their role as nation-building myths and connecting them with the less dramatic forces, economic and social, that have shaped contemporary New Zealand. |
Contents
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2 Beachcrossers 17691839 | 22 |
3 Claiming the land 18401860 | 47 |
4 Remoter Australasia 18611890 | 72 |
5 Managing globalisation 18911913 | 100 |
6 All flesh is as grass 19141929 | 128 |
7 Making New Zealand 19301949 | 156 |
8 Golden weather 19501972 | 183 |
10 Treaty revival 19731999 | 237 |
11 Shaky ground | 262 |
Glossary Of maori words | 285 |
Timeline | 288 |
Sources of Quotations | 298 |
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9 Latest experiments 19731996 | 210 |
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agreement Anzac ANZUS Aotearoa Arawa arbitration Asia Auckland Australasia Australia became Britain British Canterbury cent chiefs China Christchurch claims Coast colonial Concise History confiscation Cook country’s created culture dairy defence economic empire established European export farm Gallipoli global globalisation government’s Governor hapu historians Hongi Hongi Hika immigration imperial indigenous King Kingitanga Labour government late Liberal Maori land ment migration million missionaries mothers movement Muldoon muskets Native Land Court Ngai Tahu Ngapuhi Ngata Ngati Ngati Tuwharetoa North Island nuclear nuclear-free numbers Otago Pacific Islanders Pakeha parliament political Polynesian population Premier Prime Minister protest quoted reforms Rogernomics Samoa settlement settler contract ships social society South Pacific stories Sydney tangata whenua Taranaki Tasman Te Arawa Te Rauparaha tion trade trans-Tasman Treaty of Waitangi tribal tribes United Urewera Waikato Waitangi Tribunal waka Wakefield warrior Wellington women