Research Catalog

Title

A savage country : the untold story of New Zealand in the 1820s / Paul Moon.

Author

Moon, Paul

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2012.

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Details

Description

287 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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.

Subject

• To 1840
• Māori (New Zealand people) > Social life and customs
• Māori (New Zealand people) > History
• New Zealand > History > 19th century
• New Zealand > Race relations > History > 19th century
• New Zealand > Colonization > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Business of New Zealand -- Mixed blessings -- 'Great anxiety' -- 'Inevitable fate' -- 'New and adventurous paths to prosperity' -- Views of eternity -- Barbarism and enlightenment.
• 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 Maori 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.

ISBN

9780143567387 (pbk)

LCCN

^^2012427712

OCLC

• 781177414
• SCSB-11036130

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library