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New Zealand's Empire.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Imperialism SeriesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781784996857
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Zealand's EmpireDDC classification:
  • 325.320993
LOC classification:
  • DU420.N499 2016
Online resources:
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 -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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