Author: New Zealand Association (LONDON)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The British Colonization of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand Association (LONDON)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Early History of New Zealand
Author: Richard Arundell Augur SherrinPublisher: Auckland : H. Brett
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The Penguin History of New Zealand
Author: Michael KingPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459623754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. The Penguin History of New Zealand, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges in an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. This book, a triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, was an unprecedented best-seller from the time of its first publication in 2003.
The Dark Island
Author: Benjamin KingsburyPublisher: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 1988545951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
From 1906 to 1925 Quail Island, in Lyttelton Harbour, was the site of New Zealand’s leprosy colony. The colony began by accident, as it were, after the discovery of a leprosy sufferer in Christchurch. As further patients arrived from across the country, it grew into a controversial and troubled institution – an embarrassment to the Health Department, an object of pity to a few, a source of fear to many. This remarkable narrative reveals a little-known aspect of New Zealand’s past, shedding light on the treatment of some of society’s most marginal, unfortunate and isolated people. Written in lucid, compelling prose, The Dark Island heralds the arrival of a significant historical voice.
Colonization and Development in New Zealand between 1769 and 1900
Author: Ian PoolPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319169041
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book details the interactions between the Seeds of Rangiatea, New Zealand’s Maori people of Polynesian origin, and Europe from 1769 to 1900. It provides a case-study of the way Imperial era contact and colonization negatively affected naturally evolving demographic/epidemiologic transitions and imposed economic conditions that thwarted development by precursor peoples, wherever European expansion occurred. In doing so, it questions the applicability of conventional models for analyses of colonial histories of population/health and of development. The book focuses on, and synthesizes, the most critical parts of the story, the health and population trends, and the economic and social development of Maori. It adopts demographic methodologies, most typically used in developing countries, which allow the mapping of broad changes in Maori society, particularly their survival as a people. The book raises general theoretical questions about how populations react to the introduction of diseases to which they have no natural immunity. Another more general theoretical issue is what happens when one society’s development processes are superseded by those of some more powerful force, whether an imperial power or a modern-day agency, which has ingrained ideas about objectives and strategies for development. Finally, it explores how health and development interact. The Maori experience of contact and colonization, lasting from 1769 to circa 1900, narrated here, is an all too familiar story for many other territories and populations, Natives and former colonists. This book provides a case-study with wider ramifications for theory in colonial history, development studies, demography, anthropology and other fields.
The Treaty of Waitangi
Author: Thomas Lindsay BuickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Treaty of Waitangi
Author: Claudia OrangePublisher: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 1877242489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
Book Description
"The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840 by over 500 chiefs, and by William Hobson, representing the British Crown. To the British it was the means by which they gained sovereignty over New Zealand. But to Maori people it had a very different significance, and they are still affected by the terms of the Treaty, often adversely.The Treaty of Waitangi, the first comprehensive study of the Treaty, deals with its place in New Zealand history from its making to the present day. The story covers the several Treaty signings and the substantial differences between Maori and English texts; the debate over interpretation of land rights and the actions of settler governments determined to circumvent Treaty guarantees; the wars of sovereignty in the 1860s and the longstanding Maori struggle to secure a degree of autonomy and control over resources." --Publisher.
The Pelican History of New Zealand
Author: Keith SinclairPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140203448
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The New Zealand Official Year-book
Author: New Zealand. Department of StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Cleansing the Colony
Author: Kristyn HarmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781988531069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
T's no secret that Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) was a penal colony for British convicts. Yet surprisingly at least 110 New Zealand prisoners were also transported to the island in the nineteenth century to serve time as convict labourers. In examining the remarkable experiences of unremarkable people, this fascinating book provides insights into the lives of people like William Phelps Pickering, a self-made entrepreneur turned criminal; Margaret Reardon, a potential accomplice to murder and convicted perjurer; and Te Kumete, a Maori warrior transported as a rebel. Their stories, and others like them, reveal how New Zealand's governing class was intent on cleansing the colony of what it considered a burgeoning criminal underclass. Van Diemen's Land became a dumping ground for New Zealand's unwanted. Author Kristyn Harman offers insights into penal servitude in Van Diemen's Land as revealed through the lived experiences of the men and sole woman transported from New Zealand. Whether Maori men serving time for political infractions, white-collar criminals, labourers, vagrants or the soldiers sent to fight the empire's wars, each convict's experiences reveal something about the way in which the British Empire sought to discipline, punish and reform those who trespassed against it.