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Old south : life and times in the nineteenth-century mainland / Matthew Wright.

Title
Old south : life and times in the nineteenth-century mainland / Matthew Wright.
Author
Wright, Matthew
Publication
Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin, 2009.

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Description
344 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
Summary
"Noted historian Matthew Wright paints a vibrant picture of mainland life from the 1840s, of the rise and fall of the first privately founded Pakeha settlements with their hopeful framework of social idealism, business enterprise and religious conviction. As history shows they were doomed before they began, overwhelmed by the developing southern frontier - a colourful, vigorous world of gold and wool, of social climbers, would be aristocrats and ambitious ne'er-do-wells" -- Back cover.
Subject
  • Kōrero nehe
  • Tāngata whenua
  • Frontier and pioneer life > South Island > History > 19th century
  • Māori (New Zealand people) > South Island > History > 19th century
  • South Island (N.Z.) > History > 19th century
  • New Zealand > History > 19th century
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-332) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Wakefield settlements -- Edward Gibbon Wakefield
ISBN
  • 9780143006510 (pbk.)
  • 0143006517 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 421587808
  • SCSB-11233341
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library