TY  - BOOK
AU  - Comyn,Catherine
ED  - Economic and Social Research Aotearoa (Organisation),
TI  - The financial colonisation of Aotearoa
SN  - 9780473644062
AV  - HC664 .C66 2022
U1  - 330.993 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
PB  - Economic and Social Research Aotearoa
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - History
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Emigration and immigration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The business of colonisation: economy and society in early-nineteenth-century Britain --; 2; The joint-stock system as instrument of empire --; 3; Speculative colonialism --; 4; 'Possess yourselves of the soil!': materialising colonial value claims --; 5; Settling colonial debts: the New Zealand Company bailout --; 6; Settler bankruptcy and the politics of colonial taxation --; 7; Colonial and anticolonial credit: the Native Lands Acts and Te Peeke o Aotearoa --; 8; The Hokianga Dog Tax uprising --; Conclusion: Unsettled isles
N2  - "Finance was at the centre of every stage of the colonisation of Aotearoa, from the sale of Māori lands and the emigration of early colonists to the founding of settler nationhood and the enforcement of colonial governance. This book tells the story of the financial instruments and imperatives that drove the British colonial project in the nineteenth century. This is a history of the joint-stock company, a speculative London property market that romanticised the distant lands of indigenous peoples, and the calculated use of credit and taxation by the British to dispossess Māori of their land and subject them to colonial rule. By illuminating the centrality of finance in the colonisation of Aotearoa, this book not only reframes our understanding of the country's history, but also the stakes of anti-colonial struggle today."--Back cover
ER  -