Making peoples : a history of the New Zealanders : from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century

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Making peoples : a history of the New Zealanders : from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century

James Belich

Allen Lane : Penguin Press, 1996

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-483) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume, the first in a two-volume work, looks at the history of New Zealand covering the period from the Polynesian settlement to the end of the 19th century.

Table of Contents

  • Making Maori: the prehistory of New Zealand
  • hunters and gardeners
  • the rise of the tribes
  • life before history. Contact and empire: the European discovery of New Zealand
  • the Maori discovery of Europe
  • fatal impact?
  • empire?
  • converting conversion
  • conquest?
  • swamps, sticks and carrots. Making Pakeha: the Pakeha prospectus
  • getting in
  • taken in?
  • getting on
  • lumped, split and bound.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA28368992
  • ISBN
    • 0713991712
  • Country Code
    nz
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Auckland ; London
  • Pages/Volumes
    497 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
  • Subject Headings
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