Making a new land : environmental histories of New Zealand /
Making a new land : environmental histories of New Zealand /
edited by Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking.
- New edition.
- 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction-- A fragile plenty: pre-European Māori and the New Zealand environment / Contesting resources: Māori, Pākehā and a tenurial revolution / Resource frontiers, environment and settler capitalism, 1769-1860 / Settlers transforming the open country / Mining the quarry / Destruction under the guise of improvement? The forest, 1840-1920 / Children of the burnt bush: New Zealanders and the indigenous remnant, 1880-1930 / The meanings of mountains / 'Swamps which might doubtless easily be drained': swamp drainage and its impact on the indigenous / The grasslands revolution reconsidered / An interventionist state: 'wise use' forestry and soil conservation / On the edge: making urban places / The empire of the rhododendron: reorienting New Zealand garden history / Postcolonial environments / An updated history of New Zealand environmental law / Ngāi Tahu and the 'nature' of Māori modernity -- Mastering the land: mapping and metrologies in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Epilogue / Atholl Anderson -- Evelyn Stokes -- Jim McAloon -- Robert Peden and Peter Holland -- Terry Hearn-- Graeme Wynn -- Paul Star and Lynne Lochhead -- Eric Pawson -- Geoff Park -- Tom Brooking and Vaughan Wood -- Michael Roche -- Eric Pawson -- James Beattie -- Katie Pickles -- Nicola Wheen -- Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
"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 colonisation of New Zealand's temperate islands."--Back cover.
9781877578526 1877578525
GBB377194 bnb
016483362 Uk
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--New Zealand
Human ecology--History--New Zealand
Landscape changes--History--New Zealand
New Zealand--Environmental conditions--History.
GF805.N45
304.20993
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction-- A fragile plenty: pre-European Māori and the New Zealand environment / Contesting resources: Māori, Pākehā and a tenurial revolution / Resource frontiers, environment and settler capitalism, 1769-1860 / Settlers transforming the open country / Mining the quarry / Destruction under the guise of improvement? The forest, 1840-1920 / Children of the burnt bush: New Zealanders and the indigenous remnant, 1880-1930 / The meanings of mountains / 'Swamps which might doubtless easily be drained': swamp drainage and its impact on the indigenous / The grasslands revolution reconsidered / An interventionist state: 'wise use' forestry and soil conservation / On the edge: making urban places / The empire of the rhododendron: reorienting New Zealand garden history / Postcolonial environments / An updated history of New Zealand environmental law / Ngāi Tahu and the 'nature' of Māori modernity -- Mastering the land: mapping and metrologies in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Epilogue / Atholl Anderson -- Evelyn Stokes -- Jim McAloon -- Robert Peden and Peter Holland -- Terry Hearn-- Graeme Wynn -- Paul Star and Lynne Lochhead -- Eric Pawson -- Geoff Park -- Tom Brooking and Vaughan Wood -- Michael Roche -- Eric Pawson -- James Beattie -- Katie Pickles -- Nicola Wheen -- Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
"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 colonisation of New Zealand's temperate islands."--Back cover.
9781877578526 1877578525
GBB377194 bnb
016483362 Uk
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--New Zealand
Human ecology--History--New Zealand
Landscape changes--History--New Zealand
New Zealand--Environmental conditions--History.
GF805.N45
304.20993