Table of Contents

1. Waka across a watery world; 2. Beachcrossers, 1769–1839; 3. Claiming the land, 1840–1860; 4. Remoter Australasia, 1861–1890; 5. Managing globalisation, 1891–1913; 6. 'All flesh is as grass', 1914–1929; 7. Making New Zealand, 1930–1949; 8. Golden Weather, 1950–1973; 9. Latest experiments, 1974–1996; 10. Treaty revival, 1974–2003; 11. Epilogue.

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New history of New Zealand placing this rugged land in its global and regional context.

About the Author

Philippa Mein Smith is Associate Professor of History at the University of Canterbury where she researches and teaches New Zealand and Australian history. She is the author of Maternity in Dispute: New Zealand 1920–1939 (1986), Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880–1950 (1997) and A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (with Donald Denoon, 2000), for which she had a co-residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Centre in Bellagio, Italy.

Reviews

'… 'a broadening of the histories that have already been written'.' Contemporary Review