A savage country : the untold story of New Zealand in the 1820s / Paul Moon.
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Auckland, N.Z. :
Penguin,
2012.
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| Format: | Book |
| Summary: | New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best - few knew what to make of this foreign land and its people. This book details how so many of the events in this decade - the introduction of aggressive capitalism, the arrival of literacy and the beginnings of Maori print culture, intertribal warfare, Hongi Hika and the British connection, colonisation as a simultaneously destructive and beneficial force - influenced the nation's evolution over the remainder of the century. |
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| Physical Description: | 287 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Notes: | Bib#: 1764361 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 0143567381 (pbk) 9780143567387 (pbk.) : |
| Bib#: | 1764361 |
