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Making Peoples A History Of The New Zealanders From Polynesian Settlement To The End Of The Nineteenth CenturyStock informationGeneral Fields
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 DescriptionThis 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. AwardsWinner of Book Data New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award 1997. Table of contentsMaking 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. |
