A savage country
Subtitle: the untold story of New Zealand in the 1820s
By: Paul Moon
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780143567387
Subjects: Race relations; History; Colonization
Description: "New Zealand in the 1820s had no government or bureaucratic presence; no newspapers were published; the literate population was probably no more than a couple of dozen people at any one time. Early explorers' assessments of New Zealand were haphazard at best - few knew what to make of this foreign land and its people ... Paul Moon details how so many of the events in this decade - the introduction of aggressive capitalism, the arrival of literacy and the beginnings of Māori print culture, intertribal warfare, Hongi Hika and the British connection, colonisation as a simultaneously destructive and beneficial force - influenced the nation's evolution over the remainder of the century"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.