Making a new land :  environmental histories of New Zealand / 
edited by Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking. 
 - New edition. 
 - 391 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781877578526 1877578525 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB377194  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016483362  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--New Zealand<br/>Human ecology--History--New Zealand<br/>Landscape changes--History--New Zealand
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New Zealand--Environmental conditions--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GF805.N45 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.20993