New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to
be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is
beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million
years ago to the twenty-first century. Philippa Mein Smith
highlights the effects of the country's smallness and isolation,
from its late settlement by Polynesian voyagers and colonisation by
Europeans - and the exchanges that made these people Maori and
Pakeha - to the dramatic struggles over land and recent efforts to
manage global forces. A Concise History of New Zealand places New
Zealand in its global and regional context. It unravels key moments
- the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, the Anzac landing at
Gallipoli, the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - showing their role
as nation-building myths and connecting them with the less dramatic
forces, economic and social, that have shaped contemporary New
Zealand.
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