Disputed Histories
Subtitle: Imagining New Zealand's Pasts
Contributors: Tony Ballantyne (Editor); Brian Moloughney (Editor)
Publisher: University of Otago Press
Published: May 10, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781877372162
Subjects: Historiography; Social history; History: World; History; History - General History; New Zealand; Australia & New Zealand - New Zealand; Australia & New Zealand - General; Social conditions
Description: Reflects on the writing about New Zealand's past. This book tells much about New Zealand's past and how historians have imagined them. It indicates particular concerns with what the country is, and the role of history as a discipine within the nation. Itasks questions and ventures some answers, and surveys the work of historians since the 1980s.