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.
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Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders: v. 1: From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century by James Belich
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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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GOR002415066
9780713991710
0713991712
Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders: v. 1: From Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth Century by James Belich
Winner of Book Data New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award 1997
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