Becoming Aotearoa
A new history of New Zealand
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Product details:
- Publisher Massey University Press
- Date of Publication 10 October 2024
- ISBN 9780995131866
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages648 pages
- Size 230x163x50 mm
- Weight 825 g
- Language English 636
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Short description:
A major new national history of Aotearoa New Zealand
MoreLong description:
In the first major national history of Aotearoa New Zealand to be published for 20 years, Professor Michael Belgrave advances the notion that New Zealand?s two peoples ? tangata whenua and subsequent migrants ? have together built an open, liberal society based on a series of social contracts.
Frayed though they may sometimes be, these contracts have created a country that is distinct. This engaging new look at our history examines how.
?A people?s history of the country? ? Anna Rankin, RNZ
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface 7
Introduction: Is There an Us? 12
1. Vikings of the Sunrise 18
2. The Mapmakers 27
3. Wooden Ships and Wooden Crosses 36
4. Muskets and Christianity 46
5. The Battle over M?ori Sovereignty 57
6. White Savages, Chancers and Entrepreneurs 68
7. Agreement at Waitangi 81
8. Colonies of Towns 100
9. Possessing the Soil 119
10. Governor George Grey: One Country 129
11. Gold and Fleece 140
12. Looming Crisis 148
13. England?s Not So Little War 160
14. Pai M?rire and Confiscation 174
15. Another Country: Beyond the Battlefield 182
16. The Great Expansion 199
17. Hard Times and Old-world Problems 215
18. Reimagining the New World 230
19. Remaking the New World 247
20. Dick Seddon?s Dream 268
21. M?ori Landlords, Red Feds, Wobblies and Cossacks 282
22. Fatal Adventure: New Zealand and the Great War 294
23. The War at Home 306
24. The Tango on Britain?s Farm 318
25. The Depression and Its Nemesis 342
26. The Second World War 361
27. When the War Was Over 385
28. Paradise Shared 397
29. Managing the Present, Planning the Future 411
30. Protest and Performance 431
31. The Road to 1984 447
32. Come the Revolution 460
33. National: Second Wind 482
34. Finding a Third Way 495
35. Becoming Aotearoa 506
Epilogue 528
Notes 532
Bibliography 592
Acknowledgements 627
About the Author 628
Index 629
