The Penguin History of New ZealandPenguin Random House New Zealand Limited, 13 d’oct. 2003 - 564 pàgines This bestselling book, the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed, the movements and conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. The Penguin History of New Zealand tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges is an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. Also available as an eBook PLATINUM PREMIER NEW ZEALAND BESTSELLER READERS' CHOICE AWARD 2004 MONTANA NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS NIELSEN BOOKDATA NEW ZEALAND BOOKSELLERS' CHOICE AWARD – BEST OF THE BEST, 2011 |
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A Land Without People | |
to 1850 AD 2 Seeds of Rangiatea | |
The Great New Zealand Myth | |
Landfall | |
First Colonisation | |
Te Ao Maori | |
Distance Perforated | |
Maori Engage the World | |
God and Guns | |
A Treaty | |
Tangata Tiriti | |
to 1950 | |
New Settlers Take Control | |
A Time of Turbulence | |
A Functioning Nation? | |
The Arrival of Europe | |
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