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A savage country : the untold story of New Zealand in the 1820s / Paul Moon.
- Title
- A savage country : the untold story of New Zealand in the 1820s / Paul Moon.
- Author
- Moon, Paul
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- 287 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best - few knew what to make of this foreign land and its people ... Paul Moon details how so many of the events in this decade - the introduction of aggressive capitalism, the arrival of literacy and the beginnings of Māori print culture, intertribal warfare, Hongi Hika and the British connection, colonisation as a simultaneously destructive and beneficial force - influenced the nation's evolution over the remainder of the century"--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Business of New Zealand -- Mixed blessings -- 'Great anxiety' -- 'Inevitable fate' -- 'New and adventurous paths to prosperity' -- Views of eternity -- Barbarism and enlightenment.
- Final instalment of a trilogy. Previous titles: Fatal frontiers: a new history of New Zealand in the decade before the Treaty. 2006. The newest country in the world: a history of New Zealand in the decade of the Treaty. 2007. -Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index. -"New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best -- few knew what to make of this foreign land and its people ... Paul Moon details how so many of the events in this decade -- the introduction of aggressive capitalism, the arrival of literacy and the beginnings of Maori print culture, intertribal warfare, Hongi Hika and the British connection, colonisation as a simultaneously destructive and beneficial force -- influenced the nation's evolution over the remainder of the century" -- Back cover.
- ISBN
- 9780143567387 (pbk)
- LCCN
- ^^2012427712
- OCLC
- 781177414
- SCSB-11036130
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library