
Acknowledge No Frontier
The Creation & Demise of NZ's Provinces 1853-76
Andre Brett(Author)
Otago University Press
Published on 1. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
346 pages
978-1-927322-36-9 (ISBN)
Description
While other British settler societies - Australia, Canada, the US and South Africa - have states or provinces, New Zealand is a unitary state. Yet New Zealanders today hold firm provincial identities, dating from the time when the young colony was divided into provinces: 1853 to 1876. Why were the provinces created? How did settlers shape and change their institutions? And why, just over 20 years later, did New Zealand abolish its provincial governments?Acknowledge No Frontier, by Andrae Brett, is a lively and insightful investigation into a crucial and formative part of New Zealand history. It examines the flaws within the system and how these allowed the central government to use public works - especially railways - to gain popular support for abolition of the provinces. The provincial period has an enduring legacy. This is the surprising and counterintuitive story of how vociferous parochialism and self-interest brought New Zealanders together.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dunedin
New Zealand
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-927322-36-9 (9781927322369)
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André Brett received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2014, where he is currently a researcher and has co-authored (with Stuart Macintyre and Gwilym Croucher) Life After Dawkins: The University of Melbourne in the Unified National System of Higher Education 1988-96 (MUP, 2016). André has written numerous articles on Australian and New Zealand history for scholarly and popular publications in both countries.