New Zealand's Empire.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (285 pages)
- Studies in Imperialism Series .
- Studies in Imperialism Series .
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 -- 4 Travelling the Tasman world: travel writing and narratives of transit: Anna Johnston -- 5 Law's mobility: vagrancy and imperial legality in the trans-Tasman colonial world, 1860s-1914: Catharine Coleborne -- 6 'The world's fernery': New Zealand, fern albums, and nineteenth-century fern fever: Molly Duggins -- PART III New Zealand's Pacific empire -- 7 From Sudan to Sāmoa: imperial legacies and cultures in New Zealand's rule over the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa: Patricia O'Brien -- 8 'Fiji is really the Honolulu of the Dominion': tourism, empire, and New Zealand's Pacific, ca. 1900-35: Frances Steel -- 9 Empire in the eyes of the beholder: New Zealand in the Pacific through French eyes: Adrian Muckle -- 10 War surplus? New Zealand and American children of Indigenous women in Sāmoa, the Cook Islands, and Tokelau: Judith A. Bennett -- PART IV Inside and outside empire -- 11 Official occasions and vernacular voices: New Zealand's British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1950-90: Michael Dawson -- 12 Australia as New Zealand's western frontier, 1965-95: Rosemary Baird and Philippa Mein Smith -- 13 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.
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.