In the first major national history of Aotearoa New Zealand to be published for 20 years, Professor Michael Belgrave advances the notion that New Zealand's two peoples - tangata whenua and subsequent migrants - have together built an open, liberal society based on a series of social contracts.
Frayed though they may sometimes be, these contracts have created a country that is distinct. This engaging new look at our history examines how.
By:
Michael Belgrave
Imprint: Massey University Press
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions:
Height: 230mm,
Width: 163mm,
Spine: 50mm
Weight: 825g
ISBN: 9780995131866
ISBN 10: 0995131864
Pages: 648
Publication Date: 10 October 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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Adult education
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ELT Advanced
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
Preface 7 Introduction: Is There an Us? 12 1. Vikings of the Sunrise 18 2. The Mapmakers 27 3. Wooden Ships and Wooden Crosses 36 4. Muskets and Christianity 46 5. The Battle over Māori Sovereignty 57 6. White Savages, Chancers and Entrepreneurs 68 7. Agreement at Waitangi 81 8. Colonies of Towns 100 9. Possessing the Soil 119 10. Governor George Grey: One Country 129 11. Gold and Fleece 140 12. Looming Crisis 148 13. England’s Not So Little War 160 14. Pai Mārire and Confiscation 174 15. Another Country: Beyond the Battlefield 182 16. The Great Expansion 199 17. Hard Times and Old-world Problems 215 18. Reimagining the New World 230 19. Remaking the New World 247 20. Dick Seddon’s Dream 268 21. Māori Landlords, Red Feds, Wobblies and Cossacks 282 22. Fatal Adventure: New Zealand and the Great War 294 23. The War at Home 306 24. The Tango on Britain’s Farm 318 25. The Depression and Its Nemesis 342 26. The Second World War 361 27. When the War Was Over 385 28. Paradise Shared 397 29. Managing the Present, Planning the Future 411 30. Protest and Performance 431 31. The Road to 1984 447 32. Come the Revolution 460 33. National: Second Wind 482 34. Finding a Third Way 495 35. Becoming Aotearoa 506 Epilogue 528 Notes 532 Bibliography 592 Acknowledgements 627 About the Author 628 Index 629
Michael Belgrave joined Massey University in 1993 on the opening of the university’s Albany campus. A historian and previously a research manager at the Waitangi Tribunal, he taught in the social policy and social work programme until 2014, as well as Māori studies and history. In 1995 he began a long involvement with social workers and schools, managing and evaluating Massey University’s pilot of the programme, and becoming the leading advisor and evaluator in the development of a government pilot and in the generalisation of the programme throughout New Zealand. The programme is now provided to all decile 1–3 schools. He continued to maintain a strong interest in Treaty of Waitangi research and settlements, providing substantial research reports into a wide number of the Waitangi Tribunal’s district inquiries. More recently, he has been heavily involved in assisting iwi in negotiating the historical aspects of Treaty settlements. He has published widely on Treaty and Māori history, including being lead editor of Waitangi Revisited: Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi (Oxford University Press). He received a Marsden Fund award in 2015 for study into the re-examination of the causes of the New Zealand wars of the 1860s.
