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Making a new land : environmental histories of New Zealand / edited by Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: New editionDescription: 391 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781877578526
  • 1877578525
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.20993 23
LOC classification:
  • GF805.N45
Contents:
1. Introduction-- 2. A fragile plenty: pre-European Māori and the New Zealand environment / Atholl Anderson -- 3. Contesting resources: Māori, Pākehā and a tenurial revolution / Evelyn Stokes -- 4. Resource frontiers, environment and settler capitalism, 1769-1860 / Jim McAloon -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 15. Postcolonial environments / Katie Pickles -- 16. An updated history of New Zealand environmental law / Nicola Wheen -- 17. Ngāi Tahu and the 'nature' of Māori modernity -- 18. Mastering the land: mapping and metrologies in Aotearoa New Zealand -- 19. Epilogue / Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction-- 2. A fragile plenty: pre-European Māori and the New Zealand environment / Atholl Anderson -- 3. Contesting resources: Māori, Pākehā and a tenurial revolution / Evelyn Stokes -- 4. Resource frontiers, environment and settler capitalism, 1769-1860 / Jim McAloon -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 15. Postcolonial environments / Katie Pickles -- 16. An updated history of New Zealand environmental law / Nicola Wheen -- 17. Ngāi Tahu and the 'nature' of Māori modernity -- 18. Mastering the land: mapping and metrologies in Aotearoa New Zealand -- 19. Epilogue / Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking.

"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.

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