TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pawson,Eric
AU  - Brooking,Tom
TI  - Making a new land: environmental histories of New Zealand 
SN  - 9781877578526
AV  - GF805.N45 
U1  - 304.20993 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Dunedin, New Zealand
PB  - Otago University Press
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - History
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Landscape changes
KW  - Environmental conditions
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -