A savage country : the untold story of New Zealand in the 1820s / Paul Moon.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa:Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 2012.Whakaahuatanga: 287 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780143567387 (pbk.) :
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Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tau tārua | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Nonfiction | Stratford Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 993.01 MOO (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | 1 | Wātea | A00669033 |
Final instalment of a trilogy. Previous titles: Fatal frontiers: a new history of New Zealand in the decade before the Treaty. 2006. The newest country in the world: a history of New Zealand in the decade of the Treaty. 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.
"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 ... Paul Moon details how so many of the events in this decade - the introduction of aggressive capitalism, the arrival of literacy and the beginnings of Māori 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"--Back cover.
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