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The many deaths of Mary Dobie : murder, politics and revenge in nineteenth-century New Zealand

Title
The many deaths of Mary Dobie : murder, politics and revenge in nineteenth-century New Zealand / David Hastings.
Author
Hastings, David, 1952-
Publication
Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2015.

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Description
230 pages, 44 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 21 cm
Summary
"'Dreadful murder at Opunake', said the Taranaki Herald, 'Shocking outrage', the Evening Post in Wellington when they learned in November 1880 that a young woman called Mary Dobie had been found lying under a flax bush near Ōpunake on the Taranaki coast with her throat cut so deep her head was almost severed. In the midst of tensions between Māori and Pākehā, the murder ignited questions: Pākehā feared it was an act of political terrorism in response to the state's determination to take the land of the tribes in the region. Māori thought it would be the cue for the state to use force against them, especially the pacifist settlement at Parihaka. Was it rape or robbery, was the killer Māori or Pākehā? In this book, David Hastings takes us back to that lonely road on the Taranaki coast in nineteenth-century New Zealand to unravels the many deaths of Mary Dobie - the murder, the social tensions in Taranaki, the hunt for the killer and the lessons that Māori and Pākehā learnt about the murder and about themselves."--Publisher information.
Alternative Title
Mary Dobie
Subject
  • Dobie, Mary, 1851-1880 > Death and burial
  • Murder > New Zealand > Taranaki
  • Artists > New Zealand > Biography
  • Hara
  • Noho-ā-iwi
  • Kōrero nehe
  • Taranaki (N.Z.) > Race relations > History > 19th century
  • Taranaki (N.Z.) > Social conditions > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-220) and index.
Call Number
JFD 16-1137
ISBN
  • 9781869408374
  • 1869408373
OCLC
915489685
Author
Hastings, David, 1952- author.
Title
The many deaths of Mary Dobie : murder, politics and revenge in nineteenth-century New Zealand / David Hastings.
Publisher
Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2015.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-220) and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Hastings, David, 1952- Many deaths of Mary Dobie. Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2015 1775588165 (OCoLC)942714265
Research Call Number
JFD 16-1137
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