The Story of New Zealand, Past and Present
Author : Arthur Saunders THOMSON
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Arthur Saunders THOMSON
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Arthur Saunders Thomson
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
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Author : Arthur S. Thomson
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Missions
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Author : John Liddiard Nicholas
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 1817
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Author : Edward Jerningham Wakefield
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Page : 816 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Land settlement
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Author : Edward Jerningham Wakefield
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2024-07-09
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ISBN : 3385265126
Author : Paul Moon
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1742539181
'Throughout its human history, New Zealand has been interpreted and experienced in often radically different ways. Each wave of arrivals to its shores has left its own set of views of New Zealand on the country – applying a new coat of mythology and understanding to the landscape, usually without fully removing the one that lies beneath it.' Encounters is the wide-ranging, audacious and gripping story of New Zealand's changing national identity, how it has emerged and evolved through generations. In this genre-busting book, historian Paul Moon delves into how the many and conflicting ideas about New Zealand came into being. Along the way, he explores forgotten crevices of the nation's character, and exposes some of the mythology of its past and present. These include, for example, the earliest Maori myths and the 'mock sacredness' of the All Blacks in the twenty-first century; the role of nostalgia in our national character, both Maori and Pakeha; whether the explorer Kupe existed; the appeal of the Speight's 'Southern Man'; and ruminations on New Zealand art and landscape. What results is an absorbing piece of scholarship, an imaginative and exuberant epic that will challenge preconceptions about what it means to be a New Zealander, and how our country is understood. Lyrical, breathtaking and provocative, and illustrated with artworks throughout, Encounters offers an extraordinary insight into the beginnings of our country.
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Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Science
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Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress.
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Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Science
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Author : Alison Jones
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0947518819
In early 1817 Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Māori who, after encountering European explorers, traders and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England and Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They sought new knowledge, useful goods and technologies, and a mutually benefi cial relationship with the people they knew as Pākehā. On his epic journey Tuai would visit exotic foreign ports, mix with teeming crowds in the huge metropolis of London, and witness the marvels of industrialisation at the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire. With his lively travelling companion Tītere, he would attend fashionable gatherings and sit for his portrait. He shared his deep understanding of Māori language and culture. And his missionary friends did their best to convert him to Christianity. But on returning to his Māori world in 1819, Tuai found there were difficult choices to be made. His plan to integrate new European knowledge and relationships into his Ngare Raumati community was to be challenged by the rapidly shifting politics of the Bay of Islands. With sympathy and insight, Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins uncover the remarkable story of one of the first Māori travellers to Europe.