Becoming Aotearoa : a new history of New Zealand

Massey University Press

Auckland/New Zealand

2024

9780995131866
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Preface -- Introduction: is there an us? -- Vikings of the sunrise -- The mapmakers -- Wooden ships and wooden crosses -- Muskets and Christianity -- The battle over Māori sovereignty -- White savages, chancers and entrepreneurs -- Agreement at Waitangi -- Colonies of towns -- Possessing the soil -- Governor George Grey: one country -- Gold and fleece -- Looming crisis -- England's not so little war -- Pai Mārire and confiscation -- Another country: beyond the battlefield -- The great expansion -- Hard times and old-world problems -- Reimagining the New World -- Remaking the New World -- Dick Seddon's dream -- Māori landlords, Red Feds, Wobblies and Cossacks -- Fatal adventure: New Zealand and the Great War -- The war at home -- The tango on Britain's Farm -- The Depression and its nemesis -- The Second World War -- When the war was over -- Paradise shared -- Managing the present, planning the future -- Protest and performance -- The road to 1984 -- Come the revolution -- National: second wind -- Finding a third way -- Becoming Aotearoa -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Index.

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