Details

Subject(s)

• Imperialism—History [Browse]
• New Zealand—History [Browse]
• New Zealand—Politics and government [Browse]

Editor

• Pickles, Katie [Browse]
• Coleborne, Catharine [Browse]

Series

• Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England) [More in this series]
• Studies in imperialism

Summary note

Both colonial and postcolonial historical approaches often sideline New Zealand as a peripheral player. This book redresses the balance, and evaluates its role as an imperial power - as both a powerful imperial envoy and a significant presence in the Pacific region.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• Cover; New Zealand's empire; Contents ; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: New Zealand's empire: Katie Pickles and Catharine Coleborne; PART I 'Empire at home'; 1 Te Karere Maori and the defence of empire, 1855-60: Kenton Storey; 2 An imperial icon Indigenised: the Queen Victoria Memorial at Ohinemutu: Mark Stocker; 3 'Two branches of the brown Polynesians': ethnographic fieldwork, colonial governmentality, and the 'dance of agency': Conal McCarthy; PART II Imperial mobility
• 12 Australia as New Zealand's western frontier, 1965-95: Rosemary Baird and Philippa Mein Smith13 Southern outreach: New Zealand claims Antarctica from the 'heroic era' to the twenty-first century: Katie Pickles ; 14 A radical reinterpretation of New Zealand history: apology, remorse, and reconciliation: Giselle Byrnes; Index

ISBN

• 9781784996857 ((electronic bk.))
• 1784996858 ((electronic bk.))
• 1526104121
• 9781526104120

OCLC

944528572

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