| Publication |
USA, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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| Description |
302pBalack and White Spine
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| Series |
Cambridge concise histories
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| Summary/Abstract |
Highlights the effects of the country's smallness and isolation from its late settlement by Polynesian voyagers and colonisation by Europeans. It places New Zealand in its global and regional context, linked to Britain, immersed in the Pacific and part of Australasia.
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| Contents |
Waka across a watery world
Beachcrossers 1769-1839
Claiming the land 1840-1860
Remoter Australasia 1861-1890
Managing globalisation 1891-1913
'All flesh is as grass' 1914-1929
Making New Zealand 1930-1949
Golden weather 1950-1973
Latest experiments 1974-1996
Treaty revival 1974-2003
Epilogue
Glossary of Maori words
Timeline
Sources of quotations
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| Standard Number |
0521542286 Pb.
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