Making peoples
Subtitle: a history of the New Zealanders, from Polynesian settlement to the end of the nineteenth century
By: James Belich.
Contributors: Belich, James, 1956-
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: New Zealand -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Continued by: Paradise forged : a history of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the year 2000.
Table of contents: title: The prehistory of New Zealand. Hawaiki -- Lenses on prehistory -- First settlement -- Hunters and gardeners. The thickening archipelago -- The hunter-gardener thesis -- Bone, stone, style -- Story -- The rise of the tribes. The sophisticated economics of the New Zealand Maori -- Children of Tu -- Regrouping and rivalry -- Life before history. A political geography of Eighteenth-Century Aotearoa -- Gendering prehistory -- Gods and games -- The European discovery of New Zealand. Discoveries and inventions -- The myths of empire -- Agents of vice and virtue -- The Maori discovery of Europe. The legacy of Ruatara -- The iron patu -- Fatal impact? The musket wars -- Guns and Bibles -- Harriet and the alligator -- Disease and depopulation -- Empire? British intervention -- States and treaties -- Converting consent -- Limiting consent : the warring forties -- Converting conversion. God and money -- Land and law -- Conquest? The rise of pan-tribalism -- The wars of the 1860s -- Swamps, sticks and carrots. Swamps and marriage -- Sticks and carrots -- The Pakeha prospectus. The colonising crusade -- The New Zealand of the north -- The Pakeha myths of settlement -- Getting in. Getting Britons -- Getting gentry -- Subverting the prospectus : the populist compact -- Taken in? Taking out : sheep and gold -- The progress industry and its allies -- Making it : manufacturing and farming -- Taking off : the camp town races -- Getting on. Getting on decently -- Women's lots -- Getting on top -- Lumped, split and bound. Old lumps and new -- Crews or atoms? -- Ties that bind -- Greater Britain.