Making a New Land
Enviromental Histories of New Zealand
Published on 1. December 2015
396 pages
978-1-927322-55-0 (ISBN)
Description
Making a New Land presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history: that which followed Maori and then European colonization of New Zealand''s temperate islands. This is a new edition of Environmental Histories of New Zealand, first published in 2002, brimming with new content and fresh insights into the causes and nature of this transformation, and the new landscapes and places that it produced. Unusually among environmental histories, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of change, focusing on international as well as local contexts. Its 19 chapters are organized in five broadly chronological parts: Encounters, Colonising, Wild Places, Modernising, and Contemporary Perspectives. These are framed by an editorial introduction and a reflective epilogue. The book is well illustrated with photographs, maps, cartoons and other graphics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
10,13 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-927322-55-0 (9781927322550)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Book
01/2013
2nd Edition
Otago University Press
€44.74
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking
- Part I Encounters
- 2 A fragile plenty: pre-European Maori and the New Zealand environment: Atholl Anderson
- 3 Contesting resources: Maori, Pakeha and a tenurial revolution: Evelyn Stokes
- 4 Resource frontiers, environment and settler capitalism, 1769-1860: Jim McAloon
- Part II Colonising
- 5 Settlers transforming the open country: Robert Peden and Peter Holland
- 6 Mining the quarry: Terry Hearn
- 7 Destruction under the guise of improvement? The forest, 1840-1920: Graeme Wynn
- Part III Wild places
- 8 Children of the burnt bush: New Zealanders and the indigenous remnant, 1880-1930: Paul Star and Lynne Lochhead
- 9 The meanings of mountains: Eric Pawson
- 10 'Swamps which might doubtless Easily be drained': swamp drainage and its impact on the indigenous: Geoff Park
- Part IV Modernising
- 11 The grasslands revolution reconsidered: Tom Brooking and Vaughan Wood
- 12 An interventionist state: 'wise use' forestry and soil conservation Michael Roche
- 13 On the edge: making urban places: Eric Pawson
- 14 The empire of the rhododendron: reorienting New Zealand garden history: James Beattie
- Part V Perspectives
- 15 Postcolonial environments: Katie Pickles
- 16 An updated history of New Zealand environmental law: Nicola Wheen
- 17 Ngai Tahu and the 'nature' of Maori modernity
- 18 Mastering the land: mapping and metrologies in Aotearoa New Zealand: Andreas Aagaard Christensen
- 19 Epilogue: Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking
- Notes
- Glossary of Maori terms
- Index
